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

[CGinJCMO]

Quote: Don't tell the kids I work with but I don't think Wikepedia is totally bad.

It's a good place to start to find information, IMO. The problem comes when kids try to take the easy way out and only use Wikipedia for their research. Widipedia could have inaccuracies because of the ability to add/edit. I know wiki has many subjects closed so no new misinformation can be added. And I also know that if I put something blatantly incorrect...like adding to a list of mammals that hibernate, under bear I add cat, someone will correct it eventually. But if someone doing research saw that information, and took it as truth, then they would be accused of naivete at least (and stupidity at most).

I'm not sure if BYC would be considered a valid web site according to the criteria set by my district's officials but I have certainly learned so much here that I've done a presentation based on the knowledge gleaned from the folks here...including debunking some of the common dumb things people have said about chickens/eggs/meat.

CG

 

[heartsizedfarm]

I once read a funny comment about Wikipedia. The female comedian, forgot her name, sorry, said: "Why would I seriously consult anything that has a one paragraph entry on Latin, and a twenty paragraph entry on Klingon!"

 

[vehve]

Don't tell the kids I work with but I don't think Wikepedia is totally bad.    It's a good place to start to find information, IMO.  The problem comes when kids try to take the easy way out and only use Wikipedia for their research.  Widipedia could have inaccuracies because of the ability to add/edit.  I know wiki has many subjects closed  so no new misinformation can be added.  And I also know that if I put something blatantly  incorrect...like adding to a list of mammals that hibernate, under bear I add cat, someone will correct it eventually. But if someone doing research saw that information, and took it as truth, then they would be accused of naivete at least (and stupidity at most). 

I'm not sure if BYC would be considered a valid web site according to the criteria set by my district's officials but I have certainly learned so much here that I've done a presentation based on the knowledge gleaned from the folks here...including debunking some of the common dumb things people have said about chickens/eggs/meat. 

CG

And that's why you should use several sources.

I don't think a rigid set of norms for evaluating the validity of a website is a good idea, while info about how to build a spaceship might not be accurate on a site like byc, one can assume that a community of poultry enthusiast may be knowledgeable when it comes to chickens.

 

[Toehead]

When I was in engineering school, we had to take a technical communications class that emphasized research and finding credible sources. For the final project, one of the students downloaded wikipedia entries on topics in science and engineering, and the corresponding entries in "paid" encyclopedias. He then sent the articles to be peer-reviewed by experts on each topic.

Wikipedia was actually far more accurate (at least in this case) than the other sources. It completely caught me off guard, but I was pleasantly surprised.

 

[buddhabrahma905]

The stupidest thing happened to us the other day. We have our neighbor kids some silkie eggs to take home and they came back about 5 minutes later saying that someone had told them that there were chicks inside the tiny eggs and they refused to eat them. That one took a bit of explaining. They honestly believed that "normal eggs" are born in neat little foam cartons. Grow up.

 

[oldrooster]

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I work in a 6-8 grade middle school. Part of the difference between learning now and learning then is the internet. How many of you when you don't know something "google it" or look it up in a traditional hardbound encyclopedia? Also, different states teach things at different ages. I've noticed that Common core (National government saying what is to be learned at each age group in each subject) is changing what they are the kids are learning and how they are learning. There's more imphasis on researching (and evaluating web sites for validity - Wikipedia=BAD!) than memorization. Common Core has it's good points but some things are getting lost. Missouri law has 8th graders learn Early US History/Constitution. My son when he was in 3rd grade was learning about where on a map is each state plus continents and oceans, and in 5th grade he'll learn states and capitals. We (at least at my school) quiz them again on states' locations in 8th grade. A kid coming from another state may not have the same things learned (states and capitals may be a 6th grade thing where they came from but if they moved to my district for their 6th grade year, then they missed that. Had something similar between districts with the DARE program: some schools have it at 5th grade and some have it at 6th grade and it delays some of the boys in my sons' troop from getting a badge because this troop has boys from at least 3 school districts).

CG

Funny I had a English comp prof. that wanted us to use wiki-pedia almost exclusively, But then again he was very biased politically to have been a moderate was almost blasphemy anything further away from his political position was grounds for execution.

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

I was watching one show that claimed that the grade of eggs is determined by air cell size.

 

[JadedPhoenix]

That is PART of how the grade is determined.

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELDEV3004502

 

[ournwsimplelife]

oh my god is the cat ok? that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard cats aren't reptiles!!  

it sounds less like stupid and more like a mentally unstable concern to me.

 

[ournwsimplelife]

So many people think this. It's weird, isn't it?

White eggs are 'cleaner' and brown eggs are more 'natural'. I've even heard that white eggs are just brown eggs bleached!

it shows the fear of our current food supply. it's really a good sign, that people are trying to be more normal,natural. they are avoiding the standard, the white egg.don't scorn people for where they come from, just educate and help them evolve.