www.tsweekly.com Sara Roth recently hit the road for Bend’s First Annual Chicken Coop Tour. Modeled after coop tours in larger cities like Portland and Seattle, Bend’s tour included 26 coops, most of which had fewer than four fowl in them. To participants, however, quantity didn’t matter. Everyone — from children and hipsters to parents and the elderly — were enthralled by even the smallest makeshift coop and its roosting residents.

Ahh, the age-old question: Who raises poultry better – women or men? Arthur G. Symonds adds his two cents in this article from The Poultry Tribune, February 1910 (spoiler alert: score one for the ladies!).

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Lyrics: In our patch behind the farmhouse, where the pace of life is slow, there’s a website where just real webs are used. We spend days the way ducks oughta, eating bread thrown on the water. In a way that keeps the younger kids amused. In our land both green and pleasant, every bantam duck and pheasant. If they had them, we’d be walking arm and arm. For our life is good and steady, till we’re plucked and oven ready. It’s a poultry tale, of folk down on the farm. There’s a turkey with a gobble watch his legs begin to wobble. Cause Thanksgiving gives him cause for some alarm. We’ve got pullets, we’ve got chicken, we’ve got quails. And what the dickens. It’s a poultry tale of folk down on the farm. What a gorgeous vision this is. It’s Ida, she’s my misses. So forgive me if I’m laying on the smarm. She goes in for heated quacking to point out the skills I’m lacking. It’s a poultry tale, of folk down the farm! Come on down and don’t be strangers. In our duckyard of free rangers. It’s a poultry tale, of folk down on the farm! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here where water foul have waddled, litle chicks are molly coddled. For the cat would like to do them grevous harm. He’s our only source of worry, feathers rarely get to flurry. It’s a poultry tale, of folk down on the farm! Ha! How they flatter themselves. I never show much interest in this group. I admit I’m quite a glutton, but this feathered form of mutton, wouldn’t even make a palitable soup! But when those little duckling hatch …

WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 – Fire Ruins Bridgeville Poultry House
BRIDGEVILLE , Del.- Authorities say an electrical malfunction is to blame for a Wednesday morning fire that destroyed a Bridgeville poultry house and left thousands of young chickens dead.

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Have you ever cracked open an egg in the process of making breakfast, only to find a red spot alongside the egg yolk in the pan? Have you assumed that this is a fertilized egg that would have turned into a fluffy yellow chicken, had it been given the opportunity? This article will settle your stomach and set your mind at ease, as it addresses some of these commonly held misunderstandings about eggs and fertilization.

If you’re looking at getting yourself some chickens for your backyard or are simply interested in the topic, it may pay first to have a read of some of the questions and answers supplied below. No doubt, you’ve been wondering about these same issues, but haven’t known whom to ask.

Does a chicken need to be fertilized by the rooster before laying an egg?

Chickens don’t need roosters to lay an egg, just as female humans don’t need males in order to ovulate. Fertilization is only necessary if you want the eggs to hatch into chicks. This requires a ‘broody’ or ‘clucky’ chicken (that simply wants to be a mother) to sit on her eggs for a period of around 21 days.

Are grocery bought eggs fertilized?

If you purchase eggs from a store, it is highly unlikely that they are fertilized. Commercial poultry houses do not keep roosters amongst their chickens. If you purchase your eggs from a local farmer who has roosters running with the chickens, it’s possible that the eggs are fertilized. They won’t hatch into chicks however, unless sat on by a chicken (or put in an incubator, especially for this purpose). Fertilized eggs can be eaten because once they’ve been refrigerated, the chicken embryo will not develop.

Does the discovery of a red dot in the yolk of an egg mean it was fertilized?

A red spot found alongside an egg yolk, is not an indication that the egg was fertilized. This is a commonly held misunderstanding. It is in fact a blood spot that was incorporated into the egg when it was formed as a result of broken capillaries from the reproductive system. If you purchase eggs from a grocery store, it is unlikely that you’ll find a blood spot within your eggs. This is due to the occurrence of ‘candler’ inspectors employed by commercial egg producers who routinely shine bright lights at the eggs in order to see if any contain these blood spots. Those that are found to contain this blemish, are removed.

If you’re concerned about the health hazards from eating eggs like this, there’s no need to worry. There are no issues with eating the blood spots found in eggs. Egg producers remove eggs like this mainly because of consumer preference rather than any related health issue. If you come across a blood spot within your egg, simply remove it. If it’s only small it’s likely to disappear when cooked anyway, and no one would be the wiser!

Kerry Mundt and her husband Brad live in South Australia where they manufacture ‘Royal Rooster’ chicken coops. Visit their website where you can purchase one of these modern A-frame chicken coops which would make a great addition to any backyard.

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