The Front Porch Swing

[enola]

Well if she hatched out of a blue egg she should lay a colored egg. Possibly green if her daddy came from a brown egg. Or blue if her daddy came from a white or blue egg.

 

[Tomtommom]

Those people that want to "SAVE THE ROOSTERS" get my goat. hahahaha You know... "a rooster sanctuary in every village". LOL But the, well one of the worst are those people that make animals equal to people.

There's a rescue up North, it's called chicken run rescue. They implant the chickens with birth control implants for dogs. I am not kidding you. They want you to pay an adoption fee to have a pet chicken that cannot lay eggs because that's abuse. Oh. Dear. LORD.

Crazy vegans.

(Vegan is fine. CRAZY vegan is not fine. These are the ones that treat those who do not live like them like we're the scum of the earth. Not cool.)

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Ahh nothing wrong at all with working on a heritage breed or whatever anybody chooses to work on. Somebody NEEDS to work on them and I admire you for doing it. If I can ever get my own head pointed in one direction someday I might do that too.

I had a run-in with some snooty people a day or two ago. Lucky I didn't get one of those BYC traffic violation ...citation ...ticket things. LOL ...whatever you call those doodads when you're on the bad list. Some people are so ignorant it just really really amazes me. lol Some of my friends ( ) have to get on to me now and then for leaving The Porch and getting in trouble.

YOU LEAVE THE PORCH!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Those people that want to "SAVE THE ROOSTERS" get my goat. hahahaha You know... "a rooster sanctuary in every village". LOL But the, well one of the worst are those people that make animals equal to people.

I saw a post here once. Help bring ethics to agriculture! It was a little organization all excited to explain to farmers how to behave ethically. One of their missions is to stop on farm slaughter unless stunning is used. Either electrical or gas stunning. They were promoting using portable stunners for poultry processing. I guess people who don't electrocute their chickens lack ethics ...

 

[Tomtommom]

Well if she hatched out of a blue egg she should lay a colored egg. Possibly green if her daddy came from a brown egg. Or blue if her daddy came from a white or blue egg.

Not entirely true.

http://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/gms2-breeding-for-blue-eggs/

Long story short, if the blue egg color in the female is recessive and the male does not carry the gene or his is recessive as well, you may end up with another color.

 

[Tomtommom]

I saw a post here once. Help bring ethics to agriculture! It was a little organization all excited to explain to farmers how to behave ethically. One of their missions is to stop on farm slaughter unless stunning is used. Either electrical or gas stunning. They were promoting using portable stunners for poultry processing. I guess people who don't electrocute their chickens lack ethics ...

I tried to give my first rooster a beer to calm his nerves

He wasn't amused.

 

[Tomtommom]

My new pretties! Two marans, two EE. I love those blue grey legs on that little EE... I fear it's going to be a little cockerel, but I am going to try and keep him if I can.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

There's a rescue up North, it's called chicken run rescue. They implant the chickens with birth control implants for dogs. I am not kidding you. They want you to pay an adoption fee to have a pet chicken that cannot lay eggs because that's abuse. Oh. Dear. LORD.


Crazy vegans.  (Vegan is fine. CRAZY vegan is not fine. These are the ones that treat those who do not live like them like we're the scum of the earth. Not cool.)

How is that logic even possible? Pumping hormones into a chicken is nicer than letting it lay eggs? It makes me sad. Because to get to that thought as a solution to a pressing problem, you'd have to be experiencing some intense and desperate feelings of horror about how humans have survived for ages.

I have run into pages explaining how cruel it is to take eggs away from a chicken. The thinking is that somehow forces the bird to lay more and more eggs ...

I think the world can use more empathy and compassion, but that seems like such intense empathy it must be painful. Sad.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

My kids are of that generation that are rethinking the whole human animal relationship thing. They say "It's not that animals are human, it's that humans are animals." I'm mulling on that one quite a bit.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Not entirely true.

http://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/gms2-breeding-for-blue-eggs/


Long story short, if the blue egg color in the female is recessive and the male does not carry the gene or his is recessive as well, you may end up with another color.

I've been threatening to hatch out a bunch of blue/green & white eggs just so we can keep our numbers of pretty eggs up. We got some cool dark green eggs last time.