Chicken myths and old wives' tales, please!

[D'Angelo N Va.]

I was always told to set eggs early in the a.m...because I would get more pullets, if I set the hen at night, I'd get mostly boys...well I tried it..and the first time I set the hen with 15 eggs and 21 days later she hatched out 16 babies...as they got older I realized I had 13 roosters.

 

[spartacus_63]

Did you set them early or late?

 

[Herbwifemama]

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Bah! Think this one through... ask them if you need a man around to get yer period...

 

[tammyd57]

D'Angelo N Va. :

I was always told to set eggs early in the a.m...because I would get more pullets, if I set the hen at night, I'd get mostly boys...well I tried it..and the first time I set the hen with 15 eggs and 21 days later she hatched out 16 babies...as they got older I realized I had 13 roosters.

Maybe that one's true and you just got it turned around? Set for girls late and boys early?

 

[Q9]

Once had to explain to - of all people! - my MOM why we don't need a rooster for the hens to lay. I also had to explain how the eggs were fertilized. She apparently thought that they were somehow fertilized after they had been laid.

Needless to say, it took some time for me to compose myself to explain it.

 

[savingdogs]

Perhaps your mom thought chickens were like salmon?

 

[farmerChef]

You can make your chickens lay differnt colored eggs by feeding them different color food.
I wish, then i would feed each one of my hens a differnt color to get rainbow eggs.

 

[KDH]

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Ummm... frustrated roosters?

 

[Miss Lydia]

or cold

 

[Q9]

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I think she did.

My sister remains adamant that feeding your chickens strawberries will get you pinkish yolks with a strawberry taste. I'm not sure how to respond to that:

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