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(ABOUT SUN RISE WHEN COCKCROWED) Dear friends, This is 4th and FINALPART OF THE POSTING about hen/chicken/cock/Roost. I have received a number ofresponses about my first three parts ofpostings. Let me further go in to interesting details Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 22 -5-2011 38 Egg sales over the counter. Normally eggs are not given in hand by the seller.In most of the shops they will pack and keep over the counter. If any breakoccurs, it is the responsibility of the buyer while taking it. It is told if given in hand while receivingin hand if the buyer does not hold, the pack may fall and entire eggs would breakand get spoiled. 39. Incubation period and hatch rate The average incubation period forchickens is 21 days but may depend on the temperature and humidity in theincubator. Temperature regulation is the most critical factor for a successfulhatch. Variations of more than 1 °F (1.8 °C) from the optimum temperature of99.5 °F (37.5 °C) will reduce hatch rates. The position of the eggs in the incubator can also influence hatch rates. Forbest results, eggs should be placed with the pointed ends down and turnedregularly (at least three times per day) until one to three days beforehatching. If the eggsaren't turned, the embryo inside may stick to the shell and mayhatch with physical defects. Adequate ventilation is necessary to provide theembryo with oxygen. Older eggs require increased ventilation. Home incubators are boxes holdingfrom half a dozen to 75 eggs; they are usually electrically powered, but in thepast some were heated with an oil or paraffin lamp. 40 Chickens as pets Chickens are sometimes kept aspets and can be tamed by hand feeding, but roosters can sometimes become aggressive and noisy.Some have advised against keeping them around very young children. Certainbreeds, however, such as silkies and many bantam varieties are generally docileand are often recommended as good pets around children with disabilities. Some people find chickens' behaviourentertaining and educational 41. Chickens in religion and mythology There is a lot of reference forchicken in Mythology I read in wikipedia. Here I include a few of them which are very interesting. In Indonesia the chicken has great significance duringthe Hindu cremation ceremony. A chicken is considered a channel for evilspirits which may be present during the ceremony. A chicken is tethered by theleg and kept present at the ceremony for its duration to ensure that any evil spiritspresent during the ceremony go into the chicken and not the familymembers present. The chicken is then taken home and returns to its normal life. In ancient Greece, the chicken was not normally used forsacrifices, perhaps because it was still considered an exotic animal. Becauseof its valour, the cock is found as an attribute of Ares, Heracles, and Athena.The alleged last words of Socrates as he died from hemlock poisoning, asrecounted by Plato, were "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will youremember to pay the debt?", signifying that death was a cure for the illness of life. The Greeks believed that evenlions were afraid of cocks. Several of Aesop's Fables reference this belief. In the New Testament, Jesus prophesied the betrayal byPeter: "Jesusanswered, 'I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will denythree times that you know me.'" (Luke 22:34) Thus it happened (Luke22:61), and Peter cried bitterly. This made the cock a symbol for bothvigilance and betrayal. In many Central European folktales, the devil is believed to flee at the first crowing of a cock. The chicken is one of the Zodiac symbols of the Chinese calendar. Also inChinese religion, a cooked chicken as a religious offering is usuallylimited to ancestor veneration and worship of village deities. Vegetarian deities such as the Buddha are not one of the recipients ofsuch offerings. Under some observations, anoffering of chicken is presented with "serious" prayer (while roastedpork is offered during a joyous celebration). In Confucian Chinese Weddings, a chicken can be used as asubstitute for one who is seriously ill or not available (e.g. suddendeath) to attend the ceremony. A red silk scarf is placed on the chicken's headand a close relative of the absent bride/groom holds the chicken so theceremony may proceed. However, this practice is rare today. 42 Vegetarian eggs. Long back I had a remembrance of reading about vegetarian eggs. I got thedetails searching website. Chicks aged between zero andeight weeks are brought to poultry farms and bred till up to 72 weeks when theybecome 'layers'. Normally, each layer lays about 300 eggs in poultry farms.However, these eggs are not totally vegetarian because the hens are fedfishmeal (dry fish powder) as a protein supplement. Instead of fishmeal, soya powder is added to the poultry feed as theprotein supplement. 'Hence, eggs produced in ourcontract farms are fully vegetarian,' asserts Hariharan from SKM products Erode 'If milk is vegetarian, then allcommercially produced eggs in our farms are vegetarian. Only, most of us use fish feed for the hens because soya feed isexpensive,' says Namakkal Poultry Feeds and Egg ProducersAssociation president Nallathambi. 43. Chicken Hypnotisam A chickencan be hypnotized, or put into a trance, by holding its head downagainst the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with astick or a finger,starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken. If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will remainimmobile for somewhere between 15 seconds and 30 minutes, continuing to stareat the line. 44. Chicken pox and chicken guinea Both have no relation withchicken as Mysore pauk has got with Mysore 45. Which came first- Chicken or egg? Thetheory of evolution states that species changeover time via mutation and naturalselection. Since DNA can be modified only before birth, a mutation must have taken place atconception or within an egg such that AN ANIMAL SIMILAR TO A CHICKEN, BUT NOT ACHICKEN, LAID THE FIRST CHICKEN EGG. Inthis light, both the eggand the chicken evolved simultaneously from birds that were not chickens anddid not lay chicken eggs but gradually became more and more like chickens overtime. However,a mutation in one individual is not normally considered a new species. A speciation event involves the separationof one population from its parent population, so that interbreeding ceases;this is the process whereby domesticated animals are genetically separated fromtheir wild forebears. The whole separated group can then be recognized as a newspecies. Themodern chicken was believed to have descended from another closely relatedspecies of birds, the red jungle fowl, but recently discovered genetic evidence suggests that themodern domestic chicken is a hybrid descendant of both the redjungle fowl and the greyjungle fowl Assumingthe evidence bears out, a hybrid is a compelling scenario that the chicken egg,based on the second definition, came before the chicken. A literal historic account ofGenesis would place the chicken before the egg. 46 Brahmandam In Hindu writings, creation of birds(and other life forms) by God through superhuman beings is stated in Purāṇas and Dharmasastras. However, if one broadensone's definition of "an egg" to include non-chicken egg, the Hindu mythology also mentions a "cosmic egg" from which the universe as known to humansoriginated. In this sense this supremeegg comes before all creatures, including chickens and chicken eggs. This egg is known as Brahmanda: "Brahma: creator" and "anda": egg. The primordial egg is alsodepicted as a Lingam. 47 Rubber chicken Theterm "rubber chicken" is used disparagingly to describe the foodserved at political or corporate events, weddings, and other gatherings wherethere are a large number of guests who require serving in a short timeframe. Chicken, pre-cooked, is held at serving temperature for some time andthen dressed with a sauce as it is served. Consequently the chicken meat istough or “rubbery.” 48. Why did the chicken cross the road?" It isa common riddle/joke in several languages. The answer (or punch line) is:"To get to the other side". The series, mostly Compilation reposted by R Gopala Krishnan, Retired Assistant General Manager Telecom Trivandrum atChennai. A Keralite iyer, now 77. Dated 17-3-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1047274566.1373253.1615952207253%40mail.yahoo.com.
