What myths you've heard of and debunked?

[JacinLarkwell]

Only happy hens lay eggs. Factory farms probe this is untrue

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Roosters only crow in the morning. I have 8 currently disproving that.

That petting a rooster will make him more aggressive (own personal experience here, dudes a d*ck anyways but seems to behave better if I pet his back a bit while in his pen at eye level)

That you can't have more than one rooster in a flock (my two main flocks have 3 roosters each)

 

[Eden83_haaretz]

What

Roosters only crow in the morning. I have 8 currently disproving that.

That petting a rooster will make him more aggressive (own personal experience here, dudes a d*ck anyways but seems to behave better if I pet his back a bit while in his pen at eye level)

That you can't have more than one rooster in a flock (my two main flocks have 3 roosters each)

And what breed do you have? My older rooster can't stand his younger son

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What

And what breed do you have? My older rooster can't stand his younger son

Mixes, and Pheonixes. All are individuals, but mine for the most part have no problems

 

[Xouie]

“ALL of your (insert species here) will DIE if you ever feed them (insert food here)!”

Also presented as:

“(insert food here) is DEADLY to (insert species here)!”

Examples:
Geese and rice
Ducks and lay crumble
Chickens and meat
Young birds and lay crumble

Usually it starts out as “don’t feed your birds exclusively/too much of this thing”, and spirals out of reason, morphing into the doom prophecy above. In reality, a small portion of those things is not an automatic death sentence. My concern is that the dramatic hyperbole will over-stress new bird keepers, or (worse) cause them to ignore the underlying good advice because it sounds bogus.

 

[MysteryChicken]

"Chickens can't fly."

They can fly, had a few fly the coop a couple times.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

"Chickens can't fly."

They can fly, had a few fly the coop a couple times.

I had a young Sumatra pullet fully down our driveway and take my mom out by accident XD

 

[MysteryChicken]

I had a young Sumatra pullet fully down our driveway and take my mom out by accident XD

That's funny . I keep my Sumatras cooped up with a covered run in case some get the idea to fly away.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That's funny . I keep my Sumatras cooped up with a covered run in case some get the idea to fly away.

We were trying to move them to their new coop and she got out of my arms and decided to follow her siblings who were being carried too

 

[Sally PB]

"Chicken math is NOT real."

Nope, sorry, can't debunk that one for me.