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

[LadyVictorian]

I know someone who shows rabbits and had no idea female rabbits have two uterine horns so while she is pregnant with one litter she can go into heat and get impregnated in the other uterine horn. This way even as she is nursing one litter the second is getting ready to be birthed as soon as her babies wean and she can go back into heat again and get impregnated in the previous horn. That is how it seems rabbits are breeding so fast because of the two uterus's. I don't think everyone who shows actually educate themselves on the animals they are showing of breeding. That is a scary thought when someone who doesn't even own rabbits knows more. >.< I also don't understand why people think chickens are some sort of feathered land fish. As a fish breeder not even all fish species do that method of fertilization as it's very inefficient. It also prevents males from being able to single fertilize a females whole spawn. I have never known a bird species that does external fertilization xD How could the sperm even get through the hard shells? Sometimes people don't think about it too much.

 

[heatherlaw]

I know someone who shows rabbits and had no idea female rabbits have two uterine horns so while she is pregnant with one litter she can go into heat and get impregnated in the other uterine horn. This way even as she is nursing one litter the second is getting ready to be birthed as soon as her babies wean and she can go back into heat again and get impregnated in the previous horn. That is how it seems rabbits are breeding so fast because of the two uterus's. I don't think everyone who shows actually educate themselves on the animals they are showing of breeding. That is a scary thought when someone who doesn't even own rabbits knows more. >.< I also don't understand why people think chickens are some sort of feathered land fish. As a fish breeder not even all fish species do that method of fertilization as it's very inefficient. It also prevents males from being able to single fertilize a females whole spawn. I have never known a bird species that does external fertilization xD How could the sperm even get through the hard shells? Sometimes people don't think about it too much. 

So true. Many people seem to think that everything that lays an egg externaly fertilizes them. Sure SOME fish do that, but certainly not all. Its funny how grossed out peole get when they hear how it really works. Um, hello? Humans reproduce that way and you don't think that is yucky, so why is it gross when a chicken breeds? Their version is a lot less um... invasive... than ours. Sometimes it would be nice if those people were grossed out by human mating. There would be a lot less of them if they were

 

[chippy99th]

Oh, where to begin? I have heard:

• White eggs are healthier. Chickens that lay white eggs are healthier.
• Storebought eggs are healthier because the chickens are kept in a controlled environment and given medicine when they're sick, and no exposure to dirt or germs.
• Eggs with green shells have green yolks, right? Like in the Dr. Seuss book!
• You have to have a rooster to get eggs.
• Eww, you can't eat fertilized eggs, they have babies in them!
• Eggs with bloodspots are poisonous!
• Chickens are dirty and smelly.
• The biggest eggs are the healthiest ones.
• Will they breed with hawks?
• I won't eat eggs from free-range birds because those chickens eat nasty things like bugs and worms!!
• Only roosters have the floppy red things on their faces. If it doesn't have those, it can't be a rooster.
• All roosters are mean.
• Chickens carry diseases.
• Oh, you have chickens? How many eggs does a chicken lay a day?
• Chickens only lay a few eggs a year.
• Chickens are naturally vegetarians, eating meat and bugs is bad for them.
• Chickens ONLY eat grass.
• Chickens are mean and will bite you!!!
• Chickens don't need much space, you can keep them in a bird cage.
• When a chicken starts to molt, it's going to die soon.
• Chickens only live 3 years.

And my personal favorite...

• Chickens are really dumb, you have to keep them out of the rain because they'll look up to see where it comes from and drown.

??? I'll keep that in mind the next time it rains, thanks.

 

[ChickenGoesRuff]

It took me three years to educate my mom as to what a blood spot is. Even now, I rarely find one, but she always screams when she finds them and starts cussing out my 4 roosters. Then I have to reexplain the whole ordeal and that the blastoderm appearance is the only way to tell if an egg is fertile.
My hens also went on a couple week laying hiatus, so she had to got to the store and buy eggs (*gasp* The shame!). As soon as she put them in the fridge I ended up texting her that my youngest hen, Indie, started laying again. She's back to laying one a day, but now we have 2 dozen gross store-bought eggs. Since I've raised chickens, they seem to taste off and I know how old they really are. Ewww. Maybe I'll hoard all of Indie's eggs until the store eggs are gone....

 

[LadyVictorian]

Chickens drown if they look up in the rain? Never heard that about chickens, only turkeys. Of course our turkeys were not very smart and ended up standing int he middle of a downpour while our chickens ran inside and ended up getting phenomena and dying. Even our ducks who liked the rain ran indoors but the turkeys were too busy eating to get out. Chased them around the yard trying to get them inside then they ended up in a tree and we said forget about it. T.T

I still don't understand why people think store bought eggs from hens kept in cages, full of diseases, steroids, and antibiotics, covered in their own feces, and losing all their feathers, covered in mites and lice, and dying while they try to push out one more egg and suffering from lack of nutrition is still healthier than a free ranged or home raised chickens egg where the people normally give them plenty of space, balanced diets, and keep them healthy and happy. Next time someone says that I will pull up a picture of those factory farm hens and ask them if that looks clean and healthy to them. It certainly doesn't look clean and healthy to me. Not to forget some of those factory farm eggs are covered in so much blood. I don't think my hen Tiki ever had blood on her eggs. Maybe a little poo but never blood.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

My neighbor was telling me about how he bought 100 poults and he grew them out and had a bunch of buyers lined up, but he went to work and forgot to cover their run with a tarp and it rained and they all drowned from looking up. I really couldn't say anything because he's a bit mentally handicapped. I do wonder how they really died. Then again, maybe he just imagined the whole thing because he doesn't even have a big enough property for 100 turkeys (by my standards, at least).

 

[dekel18042]

My neighbor was telling me about how he bought 100 poults and he grew them out and had a bunch of buyers lined up, but he went to work and forgot to cover their run with a tarp and it rained and they all drowned from looking up. I really couldn't say anything because he's a bit mentally handicapped. I do wonder how they really died. Then again, maybe he just imagined the whole thing because he doesn't even have a big enough property for 100 turkeys (by my standards, at least).

When I was a child a farm across the street raised turkeys which they keep in the barn as chicks and juveniles because they said they unlike chickens, geese and ducks would die in the rain. So if it isn't true as an old wife's tale has been around for a looooong time.

 

[CLSranch]

Just found this thread. Just read the first few pages and the last 1. Some hilarious stuff.

I've had 2 people on separate occsions refuse to fix squirrel after a killed, cleaned and had them soaking in a bowl of salt water. Just disgusted because it's a wild/outside animal. I guess hamburger was NEVER outside. Last time I went hunting after cleaning and soaking I just drove to my moms and she put them in the freezer for later.

 

[7 Biddies]

Just the other day I was talking to a young lady who was telling me how she shows chickens and we were chatting about different breeds and such. I showed her a picture of my Crested Cream Legbar hen and she said "Oh she is so pretty! You should breed her!" I told her I would if I had a rooster but I can't have one just yet as I currently live in the suburbs. She said "Thats ok, you could just send some of her eggs to someone with a rooster and get them fertilized!" I just about choked. I couldn't believe that someone who keeps chickens for show and has both hens and roosters had no idea how chickens reproduce. I asked her how she thought chickens fertilize their eggs and she said "I don't know. Doesn't the rooster go sit on the eggs or something?" I gave her a brief explination of the chicken mating process and was rewarded by a look of shocked horror as she realized what was going on when her roosters mount her hens. She thought they were just showing dominance

It never ceases to amaze me how people will just assume things to be true, rather than look them up to be certain. Sure would save them a lot of embarrassment, or so you'd think. But, she was probably too flabbergasted by the facts of chicken mating behavior to realize how stupid she had made herself look to you. <sigh>

 

[7 Biddies]

Sometimes people don't think about it too much.

It seems that, most times, people don't think at all.

Originally Posted by heatherlaw

"Many people seem to think that everything that lays an egg externally fertilizes them."


Do you think they assume fish eggs have hard shells like bird eggs?