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

[sunflour]

thread on what chicken questions you get the most.

I don't recall the title but there was a past thread on the dumbest things folks say about chickens.

 

[chickisoup]

The rooster fertilizes an egg after it's been laid.

Roosters must have a penis.

Ducks and chickens can cross breed.

A RIR can't cross with a chicken of an other breed.

Sex linked chickens can only come from hatcheries.

You can make a hen go broody.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Sunflour's right. And I think it's called dumbest things people have said about your chickens part 2.

But Idk if those count since they're not really myths about raising chickens perpetuated by people who raise chickens. The moment you start keeping chickens you realize that most of those things are just silly. Whereas there's plenty of chicken keepers that wonder how you're gonna get eggs without a rooster.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I think it's more the fact that people generally don't think about it. They go to the store and buy eggs. Hens lay eggs. Done. Then there is the Farmer picture in their mind. Farmer has some hens and a rooster that crows when the sun comes up. (no other time of day) At some point those two ideas mix and where their are hens and eggs there must be a rooster.

 

[Akrnaf2]

An old timer told me that if you rub butter on an egg it won't hatch

The same old timer told me that on the first day of spring an egg will stand on its pointy side We tried that and to no avail.

Butter will plug the shell pores, less oxygen less water evaporation from the egg, problem in development due to less oxygen and Co2
accumulation and PH changes and Air cells that don't develops. That could affect hatching. .....

 

[Akrnaf2]

My brother's heart is positioned slightly right of his breastbone, instead of left, where human hearts are "supposed" to be located. My mother claims it's because she was in a car accident when she was expecting him.

6 years ago I had a student that has 4 kidneys!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Rubbing oil on an egg, would block the pores, no? there needs to be an exchange of oxygen / co for the embryo to use and for the aircell to grow - for that reason, I'd say that is actually true..

Exactly! Sorry didn't see your post! Good one!

 

[Akrnaf2]

That's how some places control Canada Goose populations, by oiling the eggs.

IF they have the eggs in their hand, way not simply destroy them?

 

[casportpony]

IF they have the eggs in their hand, way not simply destroy them?

Maybe because the geese will continue to lay?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Maybe because the geese will continue to lay?

Could be.