Chicken Myths/Rumors: True or False, Please Share!

[DebinCR]

My roosters crow during the day and sometimes at night.

Mine too, whenever he seems proud of himself.

 

[alwaystj9]

Someone at work told me chickens have no sense of taste.

 

[The-White-Elephant]

Someone at work told me chickens have no sense of taste.

I thought so too up until recently. They can in fact taste their food.

 

[Crzy Chi Lady]

Myth/Rumor: Chickens can't fly
Story: People assume that because they are seen on the ground and in pens, means they can't fly
True Or False: Fruse (True x False), for some breeds it's true and others it's false. Lighter breeds can fly
Evidence: One of my little D'Uccles flew 20 meters without touching the ground, onto the bird averey, and into the chicken pen.

I had a little Bantam get out and fly over my neighbor’s one story house. 4 of us saw it.

 

[Crzy Chi Lady]

I thought so too up until recently. They can in fact taste their food.

They don’t seem to like a lot of overly bitter things.

 

[Crzy Chi Lady]

Myth: You have to cut the chickens wings off so they don't fly away.
Origin: A friends 5 year old asked me this question once. Not sure where he heard it from, but that was the first time I've heard that before.
True/False: False, obviously!

Big time false. If you trim them they compensat.

 

[Crzy Chi Lady]

Myth: Only roosters wake you up in the morning.















I know a little d'Uccle hen......
Who wakes the household with a noise like this: AKAKAKAKKAKAKAKakkakakakakakakaakKK

When I used to allow my ladies to be out and about all the time they would come to the back porch and “crow” because they wanted breakfast. Waking me up!

 

[3KillerBs]

Big time false. If you trim them they compensat.

Depends on the chicken.

I can ground my most adventurous Marans by trimming the primaries on one wing.

I haven't figured out how to ground my leggy, rangy, lightweight cull Blue Australorp cockerel. I've clipped all the flight feathers on both wings and he still got out of the grow-out pen twice yesterday.

 

[Flock4fun]

Roosters only crow at daybreak.

My rooster crows when the porch light turns on any time of night

 

[jsr5]

I think you're supposed to put Vaseline on a chicken's comb before they get frostbite on super cold nights or whatever..... it helps prevent it.

I think as best I can discern is that it primarily works to keep moisture off the comb so allows the comb to keep itself warm without the water draining the heat and allowing frost bite.