Biggest chicken pet peeve!

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Well we are all untitled to our own peeves. I just don't like it because as another person said EEs are a plan. Just like how people hate buffs for buff orps I hate mutt for EEs.

Being planned doesn't make a mixed breed not a mutt, though? I planned a few years ago to breed my Silkie rooster to one of my Cochin bantam hens and a couple Easter-egger hens, and the resulting offspring of those birds are still mutts.

Also, hatchery 'Americaunas' that are actually Easter-eggers... don't have a plan. They're just bred to each other. You could argue that things like Lakeshore Eggers and Whiting True Greens and the like 'have a plan' and are Easter-eggers, but not all Easter-eggers do. They just all fit a loose definition of a specific group of chickens that are not pure for any breed, otherwise known as being mutts.

But yes, you are entitled to hate calling them mutts, just as I am entitled to continue using it as a term that is, in its definition, accurate for them.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Being planned doesn't make a mixed breed not a mutt, though? I planned a few years ago to breed my Silkie rooster to one of my Cochin bantam hens and a couple Easter-egger hens, and the resulting offspring of those birds are still mutts.

Also, hatchery 'Americaunas' that are actually Easter-eggers... don't have a plan. They're just bred to each other. You could argue that things like Lakeshore Eggers and Whiting True Greens and the like 'have a plan' and are Easter-eggers, but not all Easter-eggers do. They just fit a definition of a specific group of chickens that are not pure for any breed, otherwise known as being mutts.

But yes, you are entitled to hate calling them mutts, just as I am entitled to continue using it as a term that is, in its definition, accurate for them.

I never said you can't say it, I don't Ike it and that's me. You do you. I do me

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I get that, and like I said, you are entitled to hate it just like I am entitled to use it. I'm just explaining that the reasoning you gave doesn't quite work, I guess.

Pet peeves often don't have a reason behind them, so if you had said you hate it and that was that, I would have likely sent that first post on the topic and left it at that. The 'have or do not have a plan' thing just kinda bugged me because it's not accurate or really even reasonable. So I guess you could say it became a chicken pet peeve of mine.

Anyway, not meaning to argue, I will drop it at that.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

I get that, and like I said, you are entitled to hate it just like I am entitled to use it. I'm just explaining that the reasoning you gave doesn't quite work, I guess.

Pet peeves often don't have a reason behind them, so if you had said you hate it and that was that, I would have likely sent that first post on the topic and left it at that. The 'have or do not have a plan' thing just kinda bugged me because it's not accurate or really even reasonable. So I guess you could say it became a chicken pet peeve of mine.

Anyway, not meaning to argue, I will drop it at that.

Ok no problem. It's OK to have different definitions for such things, I don't want to argue either so we will just drop this.
I knew saying the mutt thing would cause issues my fault

 

[JacinLarkwell]

When the birds see me with my camera and do this

 

[townchicks]

When people write cocci, when they are talking about coccidiosis. Cocci is a real thing, a type of bacteria. Coccidia is a parasite. Be correct people. It won't cause your fingers to fall off to type a few more letters.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Molting....seems like every day there is another feather pillow that exploded in my run

 

[ValarieF]

Peeve #2 when chicks kick everything in your face and hair! I mean cmon.

 

[Chickenlover2009]

When my chicken poops on the table during poultry showmanship!!!

 

[Yowza Wowza]

When my chicken goes broody and lays her eggs in a place I can’t find them.