UNPOPULAR OPINIONS! 🥴

[roosterhavoc]

I showed you that you were wrong when you tried to make me admit I don't have gamefowl. That's done with. Can you now address my original points that have stirred up so much controversy in this thread?

You have some oriental birds that you just admitted ran from a 1 yr old at 8 months. Maybe you need to look up the term game. Orientals take much longer to mature so you obviously haven’t even had them long enough to back up anything you say about gamefowl. Are you ok?

 

[duluthralphie]

The heck you aren't offended, given the animosity in your responses.

Clearly I'm hitting a nerve. A very tender nerve. Which means its one that needs to be hit.

Pssst.

I think you might have hit some nerves.

You came in here with a poorly thought out thesis which was absurd on it’s face.

You presented no evidence, or background but started spewing lots of meaningless words. Any first year law student would know this to be

Then you tried the technique I have seen a hundred times by lawyers that have no case. Talk loud be belligerent and hope the other side folds, I believe that’s called bluffing in poker.

Once you have made a nest of

and are forced to lie in your own mess you start blaming others...

Now I am going to advance a radical hypothesis, in fact while you thought you were jerking everyone’s chain they, in fact, have jerked your chain and you should be slightly embarrassed.

as the nerves hit were your own.

 

[HuffleClaw]

I am bored.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

You have some oriental birds that you just admitted ran from a 1 yr old at 8 months. Maybe you need to look up the term game. Orientals take much longer to mature so you obviously haven’t even had them long enough to back up anything you say about gamefowl. Are you ok?

Bah, you simply stepped on the landmine, not expecting me to have something to show you besides my Cracker birds.

So I answered your question. Go through my points now and tell us what you disagree with and why? You seem to be avoiding that.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

My unpopular opinions:

1. Chickens that can't survive free range around predators should be culled unless they have a purpose as a pet in a cage, like domesticated parrots or finches.

2. Along the lines of #1, the U.S. backyard chicken keeping culture and the concept of the Fort Knox coop has greatly damaged the free-range survivability of many breeds.

3. Game breeds should be present on every farm that has the room to let them free range.

4. (Unpopular with gamefowl keepers), the tie and cord system is about as damaging to gamefowl as the coop system is for traditional duel purpose breeds. Gamefowl should generally be raised as they were 150 years ago, free range in the woods. Only a few individuals should be pulled off the flock and kept separate with limited mobility.

5. Eggs in an incubator should only be turned twice a day.

6. The poultry show standards of perfection sometimes do more harm than good by selecting for arbitrary traits that don't practically improve the breed.

7. Chicken lives really don't matter in the grand scheme of things and there's few animals on earth more disposable than a chicken.

Here they are.

You know what I think? I think you actually agree with just about all of them, except the tie cord comment. Although you'd probably agree that tie cords do the birds no favor for free range survivability purposes. Thus the reason cockers have to condition their birds before a pitting. A conditioning regime is an exercise regime designed to simulate what the birds would be doing if they were free ranging. Free range birds don't have to be so conditioned, and in the old days that's often how they were pitted. From the woods to the pit with very little if anything in between, depending on the preferences of the cocker.

 

[tripletfeb]

Unpopular opinion: I like hot dogs

 

[feliciadawn]

Well what happened to this thread? It was funny and entertaining and now it is full vitriol. Can y'all chill? Plenty of places to be angry on the internet. I personally eschew them.

Unpopular opinion: Facebook is not only detrimental to human civilization and democracy, it is also deadly boring.

 

[roosterhavoc]

@Florida Bullfrog
1. How long have your birds survived free range? How many generations of chicks have your hens came strolling out of the woods with?

2. Generally I agree that locking birds up and not allowing them to free range during the day isn’t doing them any favors.

3. Game breeds should be present on every farm? That doesn’t even make sense. Why so there’s a bunch of half *ssed feral chickens running around that aren’t game?

4. You’re just clueless. If the birds you have were game you would have to pen or cord them. Maybe you haven’t had them long enough to find out whether they are or not. Even on huge acreages those roosters will find each other and cause problems. Even then predators would get most of them. If you knew what you were talking about you would have heard or seen stories written where many times when birds were to be collected off the walks half or more would be dead or injured.

5. I have only used an incubator with an auto turner and I had excellent hatches. Hens turn eggs a helluva lot more than that in a day. I’m not even sure where you’re coming up with this mess.

6. I agree 100% still none of business what people do or keep. Nobody is making you raise some fancy show breed so I’m not really sure why this is an issue for you?

7. I don’t see your point here at all? You’re on a chicken forum saying you don’t care about chickens?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Unpopular opinion: I like hot dogs

I do too but I’m aware they’re not really good for me. Hard to beat over a fire though.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Unpopular opinion: I like hot dogs

Same. As long as I don’t think about what’s in them.