Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

[Bantambird]

Sounds good

 

[ShrekDawg]

It was the whole, I need a chicken, duck, turkey or other fowl for my parrot to hatch and raise, that I think is dumb. If you really want her to be a mom, fine. Go find a parrot breeder that will let you have an egg or two. Do not subject a poultry-type bird to being raised by a parrot. Their young develop at very different rates, and have very different needs. The macaw's mothering instinct is to provide round the clock feeding, warming, and helping the chick defecate, for months on end. Poultry chicks are off and running within hours of hatching, and need little from their mothers other than warmth for a few weeks. How is that macaw going to cope with a baby that doesn't need her mothering instincts? Far more distressing than an egg never hatching, in my opinion.

Ahhh okay. That makes sense, sorry. Maybe parrots are expensive though? And I mean i cant imagine any parrot breeder just giving someone an egg. But maybe someone would. Maybe they want to get chickens? Although in that case why use your bird, why not just go buy some or if its because they don't want to care for them buy older birds. You're right, that is kind of dumb. And wpuld probably be confusing to both. I do hope she finds a parot egg or gives up

 

[cutiechook1]

Me too. This thread is so interesting.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It really is!!

You guys hear of the extremely feral boy and they found him and put him in a room and idk, he like had to have it dark and hid under the table when people came in. I'm sure there's probably loads of cases of feral kids but i think he was one of the first? Maybe not. But i think he had been locked in a cage or maybe they found him in the woods, i might he mixing up cases. There was one where a kid was in a cage so long his muscles were all atrophied so he couldn't really move. Just sad really.

 

[TerryH]

What was this thread about again?

 

[Athaid]

I know of two cases, the most prominent being 'Genie' a pseudonym for a feral girl who was subject to severe physical and phycological abuse from a very young age. Her father kept her in complete isolation for the first thirteen years of her life, when she was finally found and removed from his care by the authorities. I believe she is now in her late fifties, and still cannot communicate effectively with other people.

 

[allosaurusrock]

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At least, not actually, physically raised from birth. Just not really possible. The baby would die from malnutrition and hypothermia. Most animal young is mobile within a month or two. Humans aren't mobile until about 6 to 8 months of age.
There are many instances of toddlers and young children that have very limited human contact and seek out the companionship of whatever animals are around them, eventually, becoming more like those animals. But they were not nursed, from birth, by those animals.

Like me with chickens.

 

[animalgrl]

When I was 12, I built a wagon with chicken wire sides and bike tires, that had a yoke to fit my mom's Boston terrier, Pepper. Oh, it hauled 3 or 4 chickens in it. It was for a 4H animal parade. Perhaps it's kids doing an animal parade?

Or perhaps that is a "therapy chicken" going to a nursing home visit, or something, and it likes to arrive in style.

 

[microchick]

I had something happen today that still has me scratching my head in bewilderment.

I do not sell my extra eggs. We give them to friends and to delivery people as tips. Giving back blessings. Today we went around to friends and delivered eggs. Everyone was, as always, grateful for the beautiful big Welsummer eggs we distribute. They comment about the size and color of the yolks and the hardness of the shells. The last home we stopped at, the wife saw me approaching with two dozen eggs in my arms and exclaimed "I don't need those. I just cook one egg a day for breakfast and I just bought a dozen eggs not too long ago. Take them back." My DH spoke up and said, "They'll keep." But she insisted that she didn't need them, no sirree. Couldn't talk her into it. She was sure that my eggs, gathered over the last 10 days weren't as good as the stale store bought eggs that she had in her refrigerator and wouldn't keep long after those store bought eggs had gone belly up. I returned my eggs to the cooler in the car and brought them back home. Sometimes you just can fix what is broken.

Somebody really needs to ed-u-ma-cate people.....seriously. I've read some instances here on this thread that just leaves me totally bewildered and worried about what is going to happen to people.

 

[pennyJo1960]

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