Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[chirkey]

I went to school with a girl that actually asked the teacher where pork comes from. We were in highschool.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

O. M. G. <crickets>

 

[scooter147]

Be careful. I hope you don't have a pond on the place.

By brother walked in his sleep. I woke up many a nights with him peeing on me.

 

[lazy gardener]

Her hens must have immaculate eggception.

Chicken parthenogenesis. That would be interesting. All female offspring and no males to worry about.

Think of the benefits here! Every BYC flock could be self sustaining without the 4AM rooster wake up call.

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by Hinotori

Her hens must have immaculate eggception.

Chicken parthenogenesis. That would be interesting. All female offspring and no males to worry about.


Think of the benefits here! Every BYC flock could be self sustaining without the 4AM rooster wake up call.

It would not work that way. Hens determine gender in chickens not the males. They are the opposite of animals.

The sex of your chicks:
The sex of a chick is determined even before the egg is fertilized. Each pair of chromosomes in the fertilized egg has one chromosome from each parent. The father always contributes a long sex chromosome (the Z chromosome) to the fertilized egg.
Before the egg is fertilized, it has only those chromosomes from the mother. If the mother contributes a long sex chromosome, Z, to the unfertilized egg, the chick from that egg will be male because it will have two long sex chromosomes after fertilization, since it always gets a long sex chromosome from the father. If the mother contributes a short sex chromosome to the unfertilized egg, then the chick will be female because it will have one long and one short sex chromosome after fertilization. So, in this way the egg can be thought of as already having a sex (gender) even before it is fertilized.

 

[Weirdness555]

It would not work that way. Hens determine gender in chickens not the males. They are the opposite of animals.

The sex of your chicks:
The sex of a chick is determined even before the egg is fertilized. Each pair of chromosomes in the fertilized egg has one chromosome from each parent. The father always contributes a long sex chromosome (the Z chromosome) to the fertilized egg.
Before the egg is fertilized, it has only those chromosomes from the mother. If the mother contributes a long sex chromosome, Z, to the unfertilized egg, the chick from that egg will be male because it will have two long sex chromosomes after fertilization, since it always gets a long sex chromosome from the father. If the mother contributes a short sex chromosome to the unfertilized egg, then the chick will be female because it will have one long and one short sex chromosome after fertilization. So, in this way the egg can be thought of as already having a sex (gender) even before it is fertilized.

I hope you mean the opposite of mammals XD I know that sex linkage in birds works backwards from sex linkage in mammals such as cats for this reason. That's why it's the females that get the recessive trait from their father

 

[ronott1]

I hope you mean the opposite of mammals XD I know that sex linkage in birds works backwards from sex linkage in mammals such as cats for this reason. That's why it's the females that get the recessive trait from their father

The take away was that if Hens could reproduce without Cock Birds, you would have both Cockerels and pullets hatch. A lot of us do not know that so it is good to help people understand how Chicken Genetics works.

The whole concept will not work for chickens.

I have read posts from chicken breeders that were going to kill there Cock bird because too many Cockerels were hatching. If there is any blame for too many cockerels it is from the Hen\pullets.

 

[Weirdness555]

I wasn't arguing with your point, just making sure everyone here knows that birds are animals. Someone in my biology class last year believed that reptiles weren't animals

 

[Hinotori]

I wasn't arguing with your point, just making sure everyone here knows that birds are animals. Someone in my biology class last year believed that reptiles weren't animals

I was tired, had lizards on the brain, wasn't thinking about chicken chromosomes, and was being silly.

Hmm. That means we'd have to genetically engineer chickens to change who carries what sex genes.

 

[Hinotori]

I have read posts from chicken breeders that were going to kill there Cock bird because too many Cockerels were hatching. If there is any blame for too many cockerels it is from the Hen\pullets.

Opposites, but same idea that guys used to have about women have baby boys. Just think of Henry the VIII wives.