Anyone with chickens?

[sidepod]

One of our units squeezed this monster out yesterday! Must’ve made her eyes water!

 

[Amarillo]

One of our units squeezed this monster out yesterday! Must’ve made her eyes water!

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One of our chickens routinely heaved out eggs that size. Unfortunately we found her dead in the coop at the end of August.

 

[Ozzy Pete]

We quite often get a double yolker from the farmer son who has about 50 chickens just up the road from us.
Generally the eggs are much larger than the ones you buy in the supermarkets. They probably come under the category of Extra Extra Large. And taste beautiful. We brought one and a half dozen away with us, all gone now.

 

[kurienp]

oh! the title of this thread. There is only one person known on this forum who has chickens!

 

[Seamelody]

Just came across this posting, we had 5 chickens originally but now down to 3 and due to age they no longer lay every day. What I’ve noticed is however they egg we’re Now getting is super large. I’ve no idea which of the three hens are laying as they all go through the ritual of spending time in the coop. Clearly they’ve watched Chicken-run and don’t wish to end up in a pie !


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[66tim99]

Right here we go, dope alert:
I see all you hen keepers calling the birds chickens.
I recognise it’s normal parlance, but it’s always prickled me a bit. Isn’t the meat chicken, and the animal a hen? Is it like calling a pig a pork, calling a hen a chicken?
There I’ve said it…
(Lovely big egg though Sidepod!)

 

[andyinluton]

Right here we go, dope alert:
I see all you hen keepers calling the birds chickens.

Surely that’s the correct terminology, there’s at least one Cock out there.

 

[kurienp]

Isn’t the meat chicken, and the animal a hen? Is it like calling a pig a pork, calling a hen a chicken?

ah! now that has created a new conundrum

I though a chicken was a baby hen. But thinking about it ... a baby hen is a chick. So a Chick-hen is a hen that is chick ... so take the H out of the chick-hen and it becomes meat?


#headscratching #sundayeveningblues

 

[Amarillo]

Right here we go, dope alert:
I see all you hen keepers calling the birds chickens.
I recognise it’s normal parlance, but it’s always prickled me a bit. Isn’t the meat chicken, and the animal a hen? Is it like calling a pig a pork, calling a hen a chicken?
There I’ve said it…
(Lovely big egg though Sidepod!)

chicken
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
noun
1. a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.

hen
/hɛn/
noun
1. a female bird, especially of a domestic fowl.