Weird things only poultry people get.

[Pullet Press]

" americans dont really lay blue eggs you are trying to trick me."

"Well, purebred Ameraucanas lay blue eggs, but Easter Eggers (commonly known as Americanas) can lay blue, green, and white eggs."

 

[Acre4Me]

My chickens don't have names and I wouldn't be able to tell them apart if they did.
They are all black and there can be as many as 100 of them. If I was inclined to name them, how would I do that?

name them all the same name!

Dr Seuss has some advice here, though:

 

[Kusanar]

Had a frustrating conversation with my older brother when I was a teenager about chicken reproduction. He was absolutely sure, despite having no actual interest in chicken keeping, that roosters aren't required for chickens to reproduce. He knew this because a girlfriend's father was a chicken farmer and she had told him so. I tried explaining that you don't need a rooster for hens to produce EGGS, but that the eggs won't actually HATCH without being fertilized, but he was adamant. I could not convince him otherwise. This same brother visited last year and was upset that I was keeping my pony "in a cage". The pony was in his 14 x 14 stall.

Ok, while chickens don't reproduce asexually, apparently turkeys can and so can a bunch of different lizards...

Link to the thing about turkeys: https://www.thepoultrysite.com/arti...ogenic devel,incubation in the fertilized egg.

 

[jsr5]

I knew about lizards and frogs had no idea about turkeys though.

 

[Kusanar]

I knew about lizards and frogs had no idea about turkeys though.

Apparently it's pretty rare, and even of the ones that develop most do not survive to hatch, but it is possible... so yeah... birds are weird.

 

[svh]

I've had chickens for almost a year now, and hang out here, so I know a little bit about the inns and outs of chickens.

A friends brother stopped by last week, and was checking out the birds. I pointed out my new rooster I just got a month or so ago, and told him I might hatch some eggs next spring. He is a "know it all" of sorts, and went into detail explaining how eggs become fertile .....

He was 100% positive that the hen lays the egg, then the rooster goes to the nest, and sits on it, somehow fertilizing it. The mating has nothing to do with the fertilization, but is just a show of dominance.

Good thing his wife wasn't here !!!

This is a grown man, and just had a child of his own, and has never owned, or been around chickens, yet he was absolutely sure that he was right, and I was wrong, and got louder, and louder, trying to prove his point, thinking the loudest one wins !!!!

Well, he won !!!

I admitted he was right, and he (finally) left here believing the nonsense he was spouting, despite my best efforts to educate him.

Some people !

 

[Xouie]

I only made it through the first 20-ish pages, so apologies if this is a repeat. But somebody else must have experienced this. Back in the day I posted a pic of a cute little brown egg from my cute little black bantam Cochin. One of the commenters expressed surprise that she didn’t lay black eggs.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

I've had chickens for almost a year now, and hang out here, so I know a little bit about the inns and outs of chickens.

A friends brother stopped by last week, and was checking out the birds. I pointed out my new rooster I just got a month or so ago, and told him I might hatch some eggs next spring. He is a "know it all" of sorts, and went into detail explaining how eggs become fertile .....

He was 100% positive that the hen lays the egg, then the rooster goes to the nest, and sits on it, somehow fertilizing it. The mating has nothing to do with the fertilization, but is just a show of dominance.

Good thing his wife wasn't here !!!

This is a grown man, and just had a child of his own, and has never owned, or been around chickens, yet he was absolutely sure that he was right, and I was wrong, and got louder, and louder, trying to prove his point, thinking the loudest one wins !!!!

Well, he won !!!

I admitted he was right, and he (finally) left here believing the nonsense he was spouting, despite my best efforts to educate him.

Some people !

If I was his wife and had heard that, I'd have slapped him upside the head for both the "dominance" quip, and because I would never stand for any man of mine believing such nonsense about how bird procreation work.
(Not married yet, but whatever man gets saddled with me will end up knowing far more about chickens that he ever wanted to know.)

 

[svh]

If I was his wife and had heard that, I'd have slapped him upside the head for both the "dominance" quip, and because I would never stand for any man of mine believing such nonsense about how bird procreation work.
(Not married yet, but whatever man gets saddled with me will end up knowing far more about chickens that he ever wanted to know.)

I felt like slapping him as well, just out of general principle ! His name is Shawn, but his nickname around the community is "Shhhhhhhawn"..... In other words, be quiet, and Shhhhhhut up !!!! Heck of a heavy equipment driver, and mechanic, but a bit shallow in the brain pan.

With his views on fertilization, I'm surprised he just had his first child !

 

[alwaysthere4chickens]

I used to think that for a chicken coop you needed to take a shed and line all the walls with lots of shelfs so that they can lay eggs. I look back on that old memory and think, what about Bedding? and Roosts? and FOOD and WATER? Vents are a must! A poop board would be handy. But they also need a run! I can't believe I ever thought that.