I heard a new one yesterday

[elmo]

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Heh. Made me chuckle. But then I'm a second child!

 

[Ole rooster]

Man o man, am I glad I ain't the first born. I'm second.

 

[bikerchic]

Thank God I'm the third child, that sure does explain a lot with the other two

 

[TeriyakiChicken]

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[navasima]

Oh Dear! My DH, myself and daughter are all first borns!!

Well, it's been nice knowing y'all........

 

[nxd10]

Before I got chickens I asked EVERYONE if I needed a rooster - including people who had chickens. No one knew and it isn't in any books. Why? Because you obviously don't.

My thought (not growing up with chickens) was that a rooster might be necessary to stimulate their hormones to ovulate. Obviously not, but what did I know?

My dad, who grew up raising Rhode Island Reds in the Bronx during the depression, set me straight.

 

[hcppam]

LOL

 

[gryeyes]

Yucky stuff, huh? Well, I've eaten every first egg from my pullets and didn't notice anything yucky at all. Whoa, maybe I ... I know I have odd tastes, but.... ya think I been eating yucky stuff?

(I don't eat cooked cauliflower, cooked broccoli, cooked carrots or cooked cabbage, but I like all of 'em raw. Maybe I can't tell what is yucky and what isn't.... I THOUGHT I could!)

 

[MiddleTennesseeRooster]

I too had the same argument with a friend of mine who is a high school teacher. He was positive you needed a rooster for a hen to lay an egg. I explained to him if that was true, at an egg production facility, somebody would have to go around to each of those tiny little cages and slip a rooster inside with the hen everyday and then take him back out. He thought about it for a second or two and then said "oh, i guess thats right". I got a good chuckle out of it!

 

[galanie]

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Heh. Made me chuckle. But then I'm a second child!

Well of course I should think that, I'm the fourth. Whew, they got it right with me finally! (just don't talk to my older brothers and sisters, ok?)