Talk:Chicken/Archive 1

message: Here's another part to fix: 
"Arsenic
Chickens are also fed Roxarsone, a chemical which helps to kill harmful microbes and also to promote growth. The controversy arises as a result of the fact that Roxarsone contains arsenic, the excessive consumption of which can cause cancer, dementia, and neurological problems in humans. Though the arsenic in Roxarsone is not of the type which can cause cancer, a Consumer Reports study in 2004 discovered enough arsenic in samples of factory farmed chicken to "cause neurological problems in a child who ate 2 ounces of cooked liver per week or in an adult who ate 5.5 ounces per week." [9]
first they're talking chicken, then they're talking liver...
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Huh, wierd, the other day I saw someone put down how much they loved chickens, and I erased it... Is there a chance it was still in the record?
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This page looks as though it was written by someone with ADD.
---Someone is aski me to come up with a picture of a chicken's earlobe. Do chicken's have earlobe and if they do were would I look for a picture of one?  Sorry if this question is not stupid and really necessary for future developments of human knowledge.-
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Not stupid! I know of pictures of chicken earlobes - 
Big, pronounced white earlobes: 
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Rosecomb_R-X46.aspx
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Dutch_Blue-X36.aspx
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Blue_Andal-X56.aspx
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Barred_Ros-X67.aspx
Normal white earlobe:
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Earlobe_Co-X23.aspx
Normal red earlobes:
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Partridge_-X45.aspx
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Rhode_Isla-X65.aspx
http://www.mypetchicken.com/Bantam_Cor-X40.aspx
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Anybody read this? "Chickens are carnivores and will feed on small children, and even large mammals like giraffes, if they can get them. Domestic chickens are capable of flying for long distances. Chickens will sometimes fly simply in order to explore their surroundings, but will especially fly in an attempt to attack when they are hungry." Sounds cool to me. 
why? this is perfectly good information.
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So I was hoping to find something about chicken farming here... like, for example, what is the role of roosters in chicken farming? How often do hens lay? Could anyone add these things? Graft 15:35, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Now could somebody add a modern version?  I have the feeling that some of Columella's advice is obsolete, but I know from nothing.  --JerryFriedman 19:03, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: I can't think of anything other than testicles for balls (speaking as an amateur chicken raiser for the last decade plus).  "The parson's nose" is a weird slang term for the fatty stub on the chicken where the tail feathers attach; it's more commonly called the "tail" (though incorrectly), and its proper term, I believe, is the pygostyle.  I'll fix the sentence in question. Jwrosenzweig 19:11, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: if you dislike parson's nose, ok, but what IS the correct English name? You have simply replaced it by an explanation.
--Yak 17:42, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: "pygostyle"  It's also called the Pope's nose.  I didn't know any name for it till I was in my twenties, and I suspect a lot of English speakers don't.  --JerryFriedman 19:03, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Thanks yak. Jay 17:26, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: misc.

message: Should we add something about the news that scientists have "cracked" the chicken genome (cracked may not be the right word....help me, biologists?)?   Jwrosenzweig 00:14, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Genome

message: I replaced "Kratinos" with its Romanization of "Cratinus" so that it would link to the appropriate article.  Regarding the "Athinaios" citation, I couldn't find anything.  Cratinus didn't have any works by that name.  Athenaeus reported some fragments of earlier Greek writers, so maybe that was what was meant.  If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me. --Jpbrenna 05:08, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cratinus & Athenaeus 

message: I've removed the following text from the article, as I do not believe it is encyclopedic, nor does it come with a reference:
:A lady brought a Chicken Hen on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and it played "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on a child's toy piano and bowled 3 strikes scoring a Turkey. Some Animal Rights Activists like PETA see this and other amazing Chickens as evidence that Chickens are intelligent and sentient and shold not be killed or eaten.
If anyone disagrees with this, or would like to argue that this section adds significantly to the article, then I would love to hear it.  --PJF (talk) 04:08, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: quite frankly, i do not in any way see how this improved the article. try to see the page from the POV of someone doing research on chickens; do you think that they would rather learn something new about the birds or not? adding info to an article never hurts, and "encyclopedic" applies not to the content of the article, which is (or should be) the sum of all the relevant info available on the subject, which we can't control at our discretion, but rather how it is stated. "chickens can be very smart and one even played a piano on jay leno!1!" would be unencyclopedic. i'm restoring the passage, albeit with a . i'll find a reference, or if i can't i'll take it back out. Joeyramoney 22:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicken Oddities 

message: The cock, pig, and snake are an important triune symbol in some Buddhist traditions (but for what, exactly, I don't remember at the moment.  Something like anger, greed, and envy?) --216.240.37.31 23:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chickens in religion 

message: How often do chickens lay eggs?  Do they lay multiple at a time? Things like this I want to know.
That info is already in the article. Please actually read the article before requesting that info be added to it! Thank you Tekana (O.o) Talk 17:49, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request For Content (RFC)