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

[appps]

Oh I have another one!!

My niece in her early teens was overheard telling a friend how she caught the chicken pox from the rooster tree when she was younger. It was only when everyone burst out laughing that she stopped and thought about it. She had said it when little, and it was so cute we never corrected her and she had just never stopped to think how silly it was lol

What actually happened was her and her brother climbed in a rust? Tree and got a rash and a few days later they also ended up with chickenpox. Being about 4 at the time it had turned into chicken pox from the rooster tree . Seems the craziest stories do have a reason

 

[sunnyvista50]

I'm learning things by reading this thread. We just built our coop and run over Christmas and have one 6 month old rooster and now 3 hens. I had no idea one rooster and one hen couldn't live without him chasing her to death. He caught a resp sickness about a week after he came here and we nursed him back to health. I bring him in sometimes just to give the girls a break and so he stays tame. I do it for fun. My husband, son and daughter in law get the eggs. I'm allergic.

 

[JimWWhite]

Correct, mules are sterile

Not absolutely correct. Just a few years ago they found a mule that was not sterile. As I recall it caused a stir at the time but when you Google the subject it says 'Generally' hybrids like mules are sterile. But the article I was reading said that a female mule can be mated back to a true horse or a donkey and give birth.

Personally I think that mules aren't really sterile but rather they are just so ugly that no other mule, horse or donkey would want to mate with one...I'm just saying they're like a lot of people I know...

 

[oldrooster]

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Just talked with some family who had some mules years ago, most of the time they are sterile, so often so that most people don't even try to breed them because the few people who try to breed them after a few attempts they get so tired of no results they give up on the whole idea......

 

[marlo1968]

Just talked with some family who had some mules years ago, most of the time they are sterile, so often so that most people don't even try to breed them because the few people who try to breed them after a few attempts they get so tired of no results they give up on the whole idea......

As it turns out what I was taught growing up was wrong, in part at least. I did a little research, the mules that have been fertile have been females, according to the reading I did. Though there seem to be few documented cases of fertile female mules there have been some. Here is a link to an article about a fertile mule in China, goes on to discuss fertile mules elsewhere - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1291415/pdf/jrsocmed00166-0006.pdf
And here is another link on the subject: http://www.horseforum.com/horse-breeding/mule-reproduction-47843/page2/

 

[Hannah11]

Just yesterday. "How do you keep them from pecking each other's eyes out? Don't chickens peck eyes out?"



To be somewhat fair, this person does AKC hunt tests as do we, and often the hen pheasants arrive with blinkers on. I suspect that is where the question originates from. I did explain that gamebirds often don't take well to confinement and/or having too little space /bird and that such may be true of commercial chicken processors as well, but if we provide ours with enough space, keep up with their needs, and try to keep them from getting too bored, eyeball pecking is unlikely to be a problem, Also that some chickens are bullies and not good flock members, just like anyone, and that we'll take care to remove problem birds before they impact the flock.

Haha! Just the other day my friend was holding my 'baby' hen and she pecked out his contact lense then ate it... needless to say i avoid letting her near my face now!

 

[7 Biddies]

Today someone told me that they don't like backyard eggs "because the yolks are so yellow, they're almost ORANGE!"

Me: Yeah. That's all that good vitamin A and antioxidents in them, due to all those lovely greens they eat.

Her: Well, it's weird and I won't eat them.

Me: (thinking to self: Good. I hate to see pearls thrown before swine, and I feel better knowing the gene pool is being cleansed.)

 

[Mac14]

The other week I was showing one of my friends a hatchery catalog and saying that the white leghorns are usually used for white egg commercial industry stuff, and she was like 'ya because they bleach them'. I told her that it actually relies on the breed. Then I started thinking, what if they do bleach them? I know that they are laid white, but poop gets on it and stuff, so maybe they do bleach them to make them clean, and that is when the misconception comes in.

 

[hennotrooster]

The meat is much darker. The breasts on mine are kind of greyish but the legs were almost black. The black on the bones is the odd part to me. I had to save a few to take to mom.

It's supposed to have more antioxidants in it than regular chicken.

While watching an episode of Chopped they had black chickens in their baskets could they have been silkies they did mention something about China.

 

[ronott1]

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Was the chicken all black or just the feathers? In China there is a chicken that is all black, even the meat and bones.