Silliest wives tales or questions you have gotten about chickens

[Gracie9205]

I always hear the goofiest wives tales when people come to buy my chicks. For example, I have been told that if I dangle a chick by one leg and it fights back back then it's going to be a rooster

They tried this on a batch of pullets I ordered from Ideal. They believed I had been robbed and sent nothing but cockerels! (all turned out to be pullets as ordered

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My favorite of all was a question from my mother as she watched a bunch of newly hatched chicks crowd under the hen... "What are those chicks doing under there? Are they nursing?"

What are some of the silliest wives tales or questions you have gotten about your chickens?

 

[miss heny]

well we had 2 roosters, and one of them got out, so i got to catch him, and a guy walking down the road saw that and said "i thought you could only keep one rooster in a flock" i, kept a strait face and told him no, you can keep a few rooster in a flock if you have the space and hens, buy boy, i was chewing my tongue from laughing my but off XD

 

[Gracie9205]

I have a rooster story!

Some guy told me that if a roosters comb gets damaged in a fight with another rooster, then he has been emasculated and will be infertile until it heals!

Where on earth do people get these things from!?!?

 

[animallover505]

"You HAVE to have a rooster to get eggs, and if you have eggs hatching and there isn't a rooster nearby, they will all die!"

 

[miss heny]

those are some new ones XD

 

[Gracie9205]

If you have a thunderstorm while the eggs are hatching, then they will all die lol

 

[miss heny]

vhat? 0-e