BS: multiple births

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 08:19 PM

This is one link i will not be opening.......

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 07:45 PM

I received some PMs questioning my claim of two-headed kittens. Not for the faint of heart:
http://www.messybeast.com/freak-face.htm
Scroll down for A PICTURE OF ONE WHO SURVIVED - SIX YEARS OLD AND HEALTHY. tHE OWNER REFUSES TO DIVULGE HIS NAME OR WHEREABOUTS TO KEEP AWAY THE CURIOUS.
cRAP - aLICE THE ONE-HEADED KITTEN SAT ON THE cAPSLOCK! dAMN cAPSLOCK! dAMN CAT!

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: maeve
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 12:59 PM

The interesting and surprising facts would far exceed the "boring" facts list. Our wee bantams, including a charming booted and bearded millefleur, have delighted us from the first day. They continue to fascinate us with their colors, personalities, behaviors, and preferences. Their social behavior is entertaining, and their upkeep minimal.

Their eggs are good too- single or double yolked!

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 12:40 PM

Imagine what the 'boring facts about chickens' would be?!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:56 PM

Fun facts about chickens!!!!!! heaven help us if that is a fun fact about a chicken....!

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 05:09 PM

TruBrit, I got it from a "fun facts about chickens" web site. It was not something I knew before posting! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 05:02 PM

Ebbie - thank you for validating (not that I didn't believe Becca 72 -- it ust seemed so unlikely). As one who deals very poorly with physical abnormalities in any way, I passed on opening the link.......!!!

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 04:53 PM

Double and triple yolked eggs were common when I was a kid. I assumed they eliminated them on the production line now.

Why'd thet want to do that? They were regarded as a treat.

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 04:28 PM

Strangely enough, I have known a couple of chickens (hens) that appeared to be affectionate toward their keeper. You know that little clucking sound deep in their throats? Two hens of my brother's small flock greeted him that way, but only when he was seated, when they wanted to be petted.

The older I get, the more questions I have and the less I'm sure of.

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 04:23 PM

Ebbie, I've a feeling it's not all that clear to them WITH a brain...
:-)

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 01:24 PM

But - without a brain, do they know it?

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Sooz
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:45 AM

I didn't realise that chickens could live such interesting lives!

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:35 AM

I had a lovely surprise last night... I got a 'double nutter' in my Ferrero Rocher box, not once, but twice!!

Now during my many years experience of eating Ferrero Rocher chocolates (Ooh, Meester Ambazzadorrr, you are spoileeing uzz!), I've noticed that not only have the plastic boxes they come in got smaller (I use them for storing embroidery threads - they fit perfectly in the old square hinged lidded boxes but the rounded, lift off lid ones don't have enough room), but the chocolates themselves have also shrunk - they rattle about in the old square boxes but fit snuggly in the rounded ones. The only thing that hasn't got smaller is the price. Old marketing trick.

They're all squirted out by precision machines so if the chocolates are getting smaller, they are cutting down on ingredients. If they're cutting down on ingredients, the odds on getting a 'double nutter' - that is two whole hazelnuts in the centre, rather than just one - must be pretty huge. To get one is pretty rare, but to have two 'double nutters' in one box would be astronomical!

I consider myself doubly blessed - two 'double nutters' and I didn't pay for them!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 01:34 AM

Oddly enough - very oddly, indeed - the story is true, Truebrit. Has to do with enough of the brainstem having been left on, or something like that. Here is just one account among many:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=189

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:10 PM

Becca 72 --how could a chicken minus head survive that long - doesn't the brain drive everything? I find that hard to believe........although multi yoked eggs I can handle (although, as 'extra bits' are one of my fetishes, I could not eat a multi yoked egg......

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: open mike
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:50 AM

4 legged chciken
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-23-chicken_x.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1414083.html

baboon adopts chicken at lithuanian zoo
http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL1479022.html

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:07 AM

Double and triple yolked eggs were common when I was a kid. I assumed they eliminated them on the production line now.

Two headed kittens are fairly common but they don't survive. Two headed snakes are also common but they survie.

Ever see the movie Resurrection involving a two headed snake?
I will leave now to resume my list of shrimp recipes.

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:06 AM

how much do you insure it for?

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: open mike
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:05 AM

The colored shells are from Arucana or Araucana chickens..they are from south america. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Arau/BRKAraucanas.html

There is a French breed called Marans whose egtg shells are very dark
brown, almost burgundy or chocolate colored.
http://www.sdeggs.com/maransdescription.html
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/product/cuckoo_maran.html
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/category/standard_breed_chicks.html

some fighting cocks are fitted with silver spurs beware--if you
google cock fight you might find some sites with no chickens in them.
Music thread...Tom Russell has a great song about a fighting rooster
called Gallo de Cielo.
Juni Fisher has a sequel to it called Ghost of El Ciello

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:45 AM

The methane from chicken farts is causing ozone depletion.

Skunk, porcupine, rattlesnake, cedar shingles, and yak testicles taste like chicken.

Chickens don't swim as well as ducks; in fact, they hardly swim at all.

It's easy to rope and brand cattle, but it's a lot more difficult to rope and brand a chicken. This is why you never hear of "chickenboys".

Don't mistake chicken poop for the chewing gum you dropped -- they taste very very different.

The first thing you must do in making fried chicken is to insure the death of the chicken.

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:28 AM

Everything tastes, more or less, like chicken.

The egg shell colour has no effect at all on taste.

Most people prefer brown eggs because they think the white ones look too thin and brittle. There have been pale blue chicken egg shells and speckled ones.

There are more chickens in the world than there are people.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:17 AM

It's a genetic predisposition, like twins in families.

There have been several cases of four legged chickens being hatched and some surviving - one in New Zealand died because it grew an extra anus and got 'glugged up'... just google 'four legged chickens' and they're there for all to see. Henrietta the US chicken seems to be the oldest.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:14 AM

Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg.

A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs. (earlobes???)

A chicken is 75% water.

A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.

Subject: RE: BS: multiple births
From: GUEST,patty o'dawes
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:12 AM

They like crossing roads.

Subject: BS: multiple births
From: Sooz
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:00 AM

I buy free-range eggs from the lady acrooss the road (delicious btw). A few weeks ago I cracked one to find it had three yolks and today she has told me about one with four! Also she has had two sets of identical twin chicks. I didn't realise that you could get two chickens in one shell and have never heard of more than a double yolked egg. Any one know any more weird facts about chickens?