Topic of the Week - Chicken Myths, True or False?

[Peeps61]

Anyone done a necropsy to see if their brain is truly pea sized???

Ha! Well, it can't be any bigger than a small peanut judging from the size of their heads ~

 

[ChocolateMouse]

That's a chicken brain next to a European (pound) penny, about the same size as US pennies.

So, not pea-sized. Maybe the size of 2-3 peas. XD

 

[shawthorne44]

Chicken's intelligence is underrated. If you watch them, they are amazingly smart for an animal with a brain the size of a pea .

I wish I remembered the name of the book so I could link it. But, I read about language study on a parrot. Not language 'parroting' but language understanding. It surpassed every non-human studied because it grasped zero (or was it none).

They'd had investors/visitors in one day, while they were trying to see if the parrot understood that words were made up of parts. So they were trying to get it to answer what the beginning (or maybe ending, I forget) sound was in the word Nuts. Then they'd give him a nut. Parrot was getting agitated because he wanted his nut now. Parrot said something like, "I want a nut! N - U - T - S Nuts. Now give me a nut"

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Thanks, shawthorne44, I really needed a good laugh today.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

After seeing my flock standing outside during a torrential down pour I'm wondering if "Madder then a wet hen." doesn't mean angry mad but crazy mad? LOL

 

[sunflour]

I've got a humorous one!!!
I bought a set of bantams from a TSC store this past spring and the young gentleman "educating me" on my chick purchase and care that was to come stated that "you do realize you will not get any eggs....these are bantams....they don't lay eggs". I managed to remain calm but my husband had to walk away. I did, politely and with a smile, "educate" him back. Although often small...yes....bantam hens do lay eggs.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

The most common myth IMO is that hens cannot lay without a rooster. When I got my first 6 gals, I was told this by a fellow with 20+ years of raising chickens who would not listen to reason. Since then I've had many folks shocked I get eggs with only hens.

I wonder if they think those commercial egg farms have roosters on duty so they get eggs..

When people find out I have chickens and start asking questions it's usually the 3rd to come up. Generally right after "so this may be a dumb question but..."

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

That's a chicken brain next to a European (pound) penny, about the same size as US pennies.

So, not pea-sized. Maybe the size of 2-3 peas. XD

Am I the only one who thinks this sort of looks like a naked chicken? LOL

 

[scottcaddy]

Am I the only one who thinks this sort of looks like a naked chicken? LOL

No your not!
And yes , we do get the same question about needing a 'male' to get eggs.
Scott

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

The order is usually, "How many chickens do you have?" "How many eggs do you get a day?" " This might be dumb question but do you need a rooster to get eggs?" "How long do they live?"

Hell we could start a whole thread on what chicken questions you get the most. LOL