Myth busters- advice that keeps coming

[Bigbluefrog]

Advice is given freely especially if your new, but that doesn’t mean it is accurate!
So what I have learned so far!
Hens are Pullets til a year!
*Your chickens need lights in the coop 24 hours! - not true ! Myth!
*Light is Beneficial for egg laying- true
*Your chickens should start laying in 4 months(16weeks) - not true for us! Idk for others.

*You need to cover every crack and hole for winter! False!
Ventilation is important- direct freezing wind -not good!
Solution- baffles!

* Oh you need lime! Do I? I haven’t looked that one up!
My favorite!
* Oh you will have Free eggs!
Are they free? After building a coop, run, and food?

I bet others have a myth buster or two!



Don’t get me wrong....I am enjoying the journey! They make me laugh! And they are great at free roaming and eating bugs!

 

[CatWhisperer]

Funny! Learn something new every day.

 

[Cyprus]

Hens need a rooster to lay eggs
You can't eat fertile eggs
Pullet eggs hatch only pullet chicks

The above from people who don't know chickens.

 

[Folly's place]

Why can't you sell your eggs for $1, and your meat birds for $5, like at the store?

I just love those, from folks who have no idea what it actually costs to produce either item on a very small scale.
Mary

 

[jeepgirl13]

Some one on here not too long ago had been throwing out their pulllets first eggs because someone told them the chicken's first eggs are inedible and to throw them out.

Never heard that one before

 

[Bigbluefrog]

Oh you need a Rooster!
It makes the eggs more delicious and more vitamins

 

[Bigbluefrog]

Why can't you sell your eggs for $1, and your meat birds for $5, like at the store?

I just love those, from folks who have no idea what it actually costs to produce either item on a very small scale.
Mary

Right! I pay $2 a $3 for farm eggs.
the carton costs money too!

Another person gave me advice! Sigh! For Newbie it can get confusing.... I figured keep them fed, dry, and fresh water!

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

"Chickens don't lay green or blue eggs! They only lay white eggs! You must be dying them to try and make them 'exotic' to sell them for more money, like they do with the brown eggs at the store!"

I work with some very stupid people....

 

[Cyprus]

Chickens are incapable of giving humans diseases.

This from a backyard chicken owners Facebook group.

 

[sealer39]

“You can sex a chick by hanging them by their neck or feet. If they flop around while being hung, it’s a male”
Thanks to our friends at TSC.