What’s the deal with you chicken people??

[Amer]

Let me guess, the h is silent, and the L is pronounced X?

Nor(mal people)therners pronounce it Leghorn.
And southerners… well, you’re right about the h being silent, at least.

 

[Amer]

I’m just kidding about the normal people thing, lol

 

[tlcmurphy]

The pronunciation of “Leghorn” is a controversial topic…

Especially if Moony joins us here…

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

If any historians ever dig up this forum and read it all, This thread alone would convince them Chicken People are all insane

 

[fluffycrow]

I can perfectly!

I don't believe you

 

[z3lda3]

If any historians ever dig up this forum and read it all, This thread alone would convince them Chicken People are all insane

You’ve got to admit chicken people are a special breed of people. I love crazy chicken ppl.

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

You cannot convince me duck names are complicated, It is so easy compared to chickens

White Pekin, Rouen, Mallard, Very easy words

Brahma, Plymouth Barred Rock, Leghorn, Maran, How do you even pronounce these?????

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

You’ve got to admit chicken people are a special breed of people. I love crazy chicken ppl.

You should meet some quail people, They are just as insane as chicken people

 

[z3lda3]

You cannot convince me duck names are complicated, It is so easy compared to chickens

White Pekin, Rouen, Mallard, Very easy words

Brahma, Plymouth Barred Rock, Leghorn, Maran, How do you even pronounce these?????

Oh with ducks I’m even worse! Big duck small duck, the end.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Hi, first time chicken owner, I’ve got 4 red sex link pullets, and 4 chicks.
Is there a chicken breed underground that I’m unaware of? Like the Free Masons of chickens??
Before I decided to get chickens, I read EVERYTHING I could about them. And yall chicken ppl blow my mind with ALL the breeds and knowledge about them. Not just in this community. I went to the feed store just to buy another feeder. Ol man comes over “oh you got some me chickens huh. Well you need some bebop’s and floofloos, and maybe cross you some yummytums and plickados”. At one point I don’t think he was speaking English anymore. “What kind of chickens you got”? I was dumbfounded I said “mine are red”. I felt so.. ignorant. Seriously where/how do y'all learn about all these breeds? And why is it important? I feel like I’m missing something here. I want to be in the chicken know!

Best thing I've read all day I wanted a variety of colors for my first flock, so I chose a spotted one, a black one, some brown ones, a white one and a yellow one. It was only later that I learned what breeds I actually got. My best advice is just to hang out here and soak up all the stuff you can. You don't want to look at the genetic threads that much at first though, those will give you a heart attack. There are a lot of threads about specific breeds, which are super helpful if you want a lot of info fast. Although you often have to look through a lot of irrelevant chat, which we chicken people have a tendency to fill threads with.

You will learn, though, just give it time! Best of luck to you in your chicken adventures, with whatever flop-doodles and fluffy-puffs you end up with.