Do chickens have ears?? Enero 3, 2008
A few minutes ago, I was just talking to my friend Alex about… well, probably nothing, when he said something about hens having ears the same colour as their eggs (white or brown). He showed me the site where he had read it (here), and it said:
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“Chickens do have ears, but they are more like ear holes. They do not possess an outer ear, or pinna, as most mammals possess, but they do have ear lobes. The color of the lobe does somewhat indicate the color of their eggs. It is believed that the same gene that determines the color of the ear lobe also determines egg color.
An all white chicken has white ear lobes therefore, white hens will lay white eggs. A non-specific breed of broiler hen can be one of many colors or multi-colored. Their ear lobes also can be colored from near white to near black. These birds will lay eggs that are nearly white to a deep, soft brown. The shade of brown of the egg will be indicated by the degree of color of the ear lobe. In other words, a chicken with blackish lobes will not lay a black egg, but it may be a deep brown.”
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Weird, but interesting, isn’t it??? Now don’t go catching chickens just to look at their ears, I’ve seen loads of them, and I never noticed they had any!! Besides, it might only happen in England (everyone’s crazy over there).
PS: My chicken-like-coffee-machine is black, and so is the coffee it makes… what if I had bought the red one? Would it be giving me WINE??? I’d better go back and ask!!
hmmm … interesante …
la última vez que tuve una gallina en mis manos fue … nunca … así que ya no estoy muy seguro sobre si tienen orejas … creo que no tienen cuernos, de eso estoy seguro … aunque claro, eso de “eres más #### que las gallinas” … visto así sería cornudo el gallo … pero con el modelo actual de sociedad es el gallo el que “se va de gallinas” … madre mía qué paella mental tengo … paella de pollo, me temo … por cierto, las vacas … ¿las vacas tienen los cuernos antes, después o a la misma altura que las orejas? … si no me confundo, la leche de vaca es siempre blanca aunque la vaca no sea blanca … bueno, salvo que la vaca sea morada, en cuyo caso da leche con chocolate … ¿los huevos marrones son así porque llevan chocolate dentro?
humm… wine machine… hummm
Yo pensaba que ser sexador de pollos es chungo… pero lo de las orejas suena casi peor.
Ummm…checking the link you’ve given I see that it’s from MadSci (I didn’t know that web but it seems interesting)which surely stands for Mad Science. That’s what you are: mad, completely mad xD
I’ve never seen a hen close enough to check ear lobes. Anyway, the idea of blackish lob = deep brown egg is curious.
By the way, if your uber-coffee-machine had been red, it would have given a bloodish liquid for sure, not wine xDD
P.S. Why is the post written in English? Wait, I think you told me that your friend Alex was English, is it right?
not wine?!?… :,(
I thought of it being something like blood, but I found it pretty nasty. I also imagined cherry sauce, strawberry jam, ketchup… okay, I think I’m hungry.
AccentLess, ignore keiboll, it must definitely give wine!! I still haven’t asked though, but if we believe that ear-egg theory… why not mine too???
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qué pasa piltrafilla?
wine… grrrr
Está claro: el “piltrafilla” de aidich no tiene traducción xDD
Osea que yo debo tener los huevos del color de la cera de las orejas??? claro que ahora entiendo por que al principio tenemos los huevos y las orejas sin pelos… y al final nos salen por todos lados…
Jurl, Jurl… piltrafilla = little-piltrafed-one