Chicken folklore, also known as old wive's tales

[ravenfeathers]

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LOL, that's fun. in theory, it works, because commercial eggs are mostly white and are therefore older when it hits the store shelves than a local brown egg. of course, i've seen brown commercial eggs, too, so....

 

[Roy]

Chicken Pox are carried by chickens...:|

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Oh, here's one I heard from my father. Not really folklore but a confusion of terms.

We're eating rooster, not chicken..

-Kim

 

[Flyingbavarian]

Roosters come in pointed eggs and hens in round eggs. Or maybe its the other way around:

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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You got it right.

-Kim

 

[lilchick]

My grandmother always let hens set early spring but not late summer.
Her reason was chicks hatched in spring were more likely to be hens and later ones roosters...
Must have something to do with mother nature?

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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I read somewhere that people thought the temperature that the eggs were incubated helped "decide" whether the eggs would be male or female.. Boy, I wish I knew that magic temperature!

-Kim

 

[austinhart123]

my teacher told us that brown eggs were from organic hens.

 

[Guitartists]

Pointy eggs are roos

First egg hatched is a roo

Temp in the bator can control the sex of the chicks

 

[MissPrissy]

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This is not an old wive's tale! Ask Cyn! Every chick I have ever hatched the first one from a clutch is ALWAYS a rooster. LOL