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

[jsr5]

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

Mine crow to tell me there are predators around the coop. And uh yeah full disclosure I have a motion detector light on the coop that shines in a window a bit. LOL

 

[Weeg]

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.

I've heard this to. I've also heard that it can freeze. Vaseline doesn't help if it freezes.

 

[jsr5]

Don't forget the biggest myth we all have heard. Brown eggs taste better than white eggs

I have one customer that is insistent that all his eggs be brown ones. I try to cater to him but it is kinda a groan at times.

Myth: If you butcher a chicken within eye-view of another chicken, they will become aggressive
Wherabouts: I read it somewhere on BYC (I believe there was a discussion on it)
True/false: False

I don't simply because it seems rude and I think it would cause undue stress to those watching seeing hearing it happening.

Myth: You can't eat fertile eggs!
Whereabouts: Not sure where people heard of this, I always assumed it was superstition, but maybe not.

A restraunt in town offered "Roostered Eggs" on the menu that my grandfater always got as it was supposed to have "converted" the cholesterol to a better kind. I dunno it is a no brainer that changes do occur after being fertilized but know of no tests proving one way or the other.

 

[iBague]

Don't forget the biggest myth we all have heard. Brown eggs taste better than white eggs

A chicken egg is a chicken egg. You compare my farm fresh brown eggs to some who knows how old only fed layer feed yeah my brown egg is gonna be better. Same way my farm fresh white eggs are gonna be better than some production mass production store bought brown eggs.

 

[iBague]

Don't forget the biggest myth we all have heard. Brown eggs taste better than white eggs

A chicken egg is a chicken egg. You compare my farm fresh brown eggs to some who knows how old only fed layer feed yeah my brown egg is gonna be better. Same way my farm fresh white eggs are gonna be better than some production mass production store bought brown eggs.

They’re the same! Eggs start out white and don’t receive color until they pass through the oviduct. In the walls of the duct are glands that produce the pigment that attaches to the egg. You can actually rub off the pigment on some eggs and see the white. The one difference is the blue eggs that are blue on both sides of the shell, inside and out.

 

[Peacheypoo]

Roosters only crow at daybreak.

My Roosters crow all the time! And I have 5. If I'm out in the coop in the middle of the night they crow. If they see the headlights to the car they crow . Lol!

 

[Double Yolked]

Hearing a cock crow at midnight means a pending death... in my half century of raising chickens there have been six deaths in the family within a week of hearing a rooster crow at midnight. Maybe just a coincidence...

My roosters crow any time they see light at night, even a sliver of light and most certainly when someone in the house turns on a light, especially unexpectedly.
I suspect that the doom predicting night crowers are responding to a sick or anxious householder turning on the light inside at night.

 

[3KillerBs]

I suspect that the doom predicting night crowers are responding to a sick or anxious householder turning on the light inside at night.

That's really a good thought. It could well be that people have the cause and effect backwards.

 

[The-White-Elephant]

That's really a good thought. It could well be that people have the cause and effect backwards.

My rooster crows sometime at 3 am, every morning. Usually about 10 crows, then stops.

 

[Fallenone05]

My neighbor said that green eggs are cholesterol-free and people will pay more money for them due to that.