Many People Do Not Know Why There is a Rooster on the Kellogg's Corn Flakes Box

[desertdarlene]

I've always associated roosters with morning. Would seem like a no-brainier to me and I'm a city girl. Of course, my grandfather and some other relatives were farmers and ranchers.

 

[EweSheep]

Me too, remember that rooster crowing in the morning!

I used to love Froot Loops, Smacks, Corn Pops (cowboy and pretty horse on the box), Tony the Tiger and the good old ugly Quaker man for Oatmeal.

 

[Mum]

Every morning at infant school, each assembly would begin with the song:

"The Golden Cockerel crows in the morning,
Wake up, children, school has begun .... "

 

[Catching Fire]

Oh goodness.....


Hey, I used to have the avatar, and i also live in Ohio!

It's almost as good as the time one of my (ag-minded) high school teachers convinced a (city) student that chocolate milk came from brown cows!

The reality is most people haven't the slightest clue where their food "comes from". Kinda sad, really.

 

[swampducks]

Do they still make that flavor? Because the stores up here stopped stocking them, only the plain and the honey nut ones now. I miss the vanilla almond flavor. Made a great snack!

my husband has us addicted to the new Krave cereal from Kellogs. Though i am partial to that one cereal that has vanilla and almonds in it.

 

[Clay Mudd]

I think I'm going to read this thread to my roosters, because they think they're supposed to crow all day and all night long.

Maybe I should be feeding them cornflakes?

 

[Nitrous]

Easter egg hunting comes from hunting hen nests. Hens are just getting going in the spring an add that to the need for eggs for Easter dinner so people would send the children to go find where the hens were hiding there eggs an bring them back to eat.

My chickens celebrate Easter all year long. If one catches me taking an egg, while she's still sitting on it, she'll move the nest and I have to find it again. The good news is chickens have such short, long-term memory, I can just disturb her again tomorrow and she'll "find" the old nest.

 

[Nitrous]

Collecting eggs in the spring predates recorded history an farming. Part of the hunter gatherer lifestyle. Anyone raised the old way, back when everyone had free ranged hens sees sending the kids to find where the nests are in the spring the same way as cutting wood in the fall. Its what has to happen an what has always happened. If you ask the old timers why you hunt eggs in the spring(easter) they will tell you because thats when they are there. The idea of chickens laying all year an you having eggs all year is a new one.

Do your chickens stop laying in the Winter, in GA? Mine stop in the summer, if it gets cold enough or cloudy enough. It doesn't seem to be only light. Cold temps and they stop for a day or two. High temps and same thing, but only if it's hot at night. It can be hot all day and they lay like anything, as long as the temps still drop into the 40s-50s at night.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Mine lay all year long using a light...

 

[M.sue]

I think I'm going to read this thread to my roosters, because they think they're supposed to crow all day and all night long.

Maybe I should be feeding them cornflakes?

Mine love Corn Flakes!!