BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Our Roost]

Lots of slang terms out there in the chicken world! I use the term"roo" all the time. Oh! How old is he? So you have a cockerel eh? Duh, yep its a roo!

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

From Wikipedia;
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book Winnie–the–Pooh. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy animal that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, though stuffed Roo was lost a long time ago.

Thanks a lot guys for embarrassing the crap out of me, I promise to never use that term again. I was using it just as a short, not to have to type so much. Kinda like texting speak, which I don't talk, always tell my oldest I don't know what the heck your saying why can't you just call me, reminds me of the mother that asked her daughter after a text what this meant

No more 'roo' from me!

You are not the only one who is challenged....

I have the little smileys on my phone (emojicons). I kept sending my girls this smiling piece of chocolate. Finally one says to me, "Mom! You know that's a pile of poop, right?!"

 

[bnjrob]

You are not the only one who is challenged....

I have the little smileys on my phone (emojicons). I kept sending my girls this smiling piece of chocolate. Finally one says to me, "Mom! You know that's a pile of poop, right?!"

 

[dfr1973]

I kept sending my girls this smiling piece of chocolate. Finally one says to me, "Mom! You know that's a pile of poop, right?!"

I simply have a no-texting rule. People know to not expect a text in response, and I ended up (unintentionally) calling my dad out when he sent an email using that texting shorthand. I thought his email account had been hacked. Nope, apparently it was my old man trying to be cool. I referred him to my son to clear that up.

 

[RedRidge]

 


Breeding F-1 back to a parent is what you did?

YES.

[COLOR=B22222]EDIT:[/COLOR]I know that's contrary to plausible breeding practices but I did what my dad told me to do since he was the boss.  I know it would head right back to the median but neither my dad nor grand dad wanted to hear anything about it.

An F1 back to a parent is a BC1. Back cross

 

[RedRidge]

 
If my grandpa was still above ground, he'd argue with you just for the fun of it (yes, he loved his Missouri mules too!).  He spent almost his entire life on the 200-acre Missouri farm where he was born.  He took a couple years "off" during WW2 to tour the Pacific theatre and came home with a bride (also very German family name, natch) but he always said "rooster," so that is why I think it may be regional.  FWIW, our county fair also uses rooster for a male chicken over one year of age.

Rooster is not incorrect, and it is not regional.

It is also not precise.

Ok... I'm gonna have to tell you chicken folks what happened last month when we were talking genetics on the dexter proboards. Apparently the proboards has built in software to change words it seems inappropriate. We were discussing genetics and I was using poultry linebreeding in an example and was talking about having backup genetics. Part of my response was, "... and since I lost my best cock, I'm glad a had a backup".
Well you guessed it... not only did the software change the word cock to penis, but I was totally unaware of the change until they next day. You can only imagine the fun several people had at my expense. My husband could not quit laughing and wanted to know who his backup was. :-/

 

[DesertChic]

Ok... I'm gonna have to tell you chicken folks what happened last month when we were talking genetics on the dexter proboards. Apparently the proboards has built in software to change words it seems inappropriate. We were discussing genetics and I was using poultry linebreeding in an example and was talking about having backup genetics. Part of my response was, "... and since I lost my best cock, I'm glad a had a backup".
Well you guessed it... not only did the software change the word cock to penis, but I was totally unaware of the change until they next day. You can only imagine the fun several people had at my expense. My husband could not quit laughing and wanted to know who his backup was. :-/

LMAO!!!

 

[bnjrob]

Ok... I'm gonna have to tell you chicken folks what happened last month when we were talking genetics on the dexter proboards. Apparently the proboards has built in software to change words it seems inappropriate. We were discussing genetics and I was using poultry linebreeding in an example and was talking about having backup genetics. Part of my response was, "... and since I lost my best cock, I'm glad a had a backup".
Well you guessed it... not only did the software change the word cock to penis, but I was totally unaware of the change until they next day. You can only imagine the fun several people had at my expense. My husband could not quit laughing and wanted to know who his backup was. :-/

 

[Arielle]

Quote:
George , for a moment I thought you were talking about rottweilers. lol BOld intellgent, not quick to flight, lol. Having several different breeds of dogs still did not prepare me for the wide variety of characteristics among breeds of birds, and some variety among a breed. Enlightening.

 

[Shellz]

Too funny!!!