Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Someone raised a biology question I couldn't answer.:mad:

Do big eggs produce big chickens and do big chickens lay bigger eggs? IYSWIM. Any smallholders in the thread know the answer?

Yes and no.

No really. Bantams lay smaller eggs than bug chickens, but our great big chickens, cochins, (don't have any atm thanks to fox) lay medium eggs, where as my legbarrs, who are small hens, lay big eggs. Egg laying breeds are selected for big eggs and quality such as shell, where as meat breeds are selected for size and muscle...so big chickens might be small egg layers and small ones that would be terrible table birds might lay huge ones

Older chickens lay fewer eggs in a year but bigger ones.

Does that help? If its not clear i will say it in a different way.

Edit: also, commercial hybrids tend to be scrawny, middle sized birds. The genetic selection ensures the money spent on food goes to egg production not growth, where are meat birds might be the other way round.

chewmylegoff

purch wrote: »

Yep...........stupid place to live really.

I can think of worse places. Aberdeen, Cairo and anywhere in the Black Country spring to mind. Sorry in advance for the offence caused to anyone who lives in any of these places.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes and no.

No really. Bantams lay smaller eggs than bug chickens, but our great big chickens, cochins, (don't have any atm thanks to fox) lay medium eggs, where as my legbarrs, who are small hens, lay big eggs. Egg laying breeds are selected for big eggs and quality such as shell, where as meat breeds are selected for size and muscle...so big chickens might be small egg layers and small ones that would be terrible table birds might lay huge ones

Older chickens lay fewer eggs in a year but bigger ones.

Does that help? If its not clear i will say it in a different way.

Edit: also, commercial hybrids tend to be scrawny, middle sized birds. The genetic selection ensures the money spent on food goes to egg production not growth, where are meat birds might be the other way round.

That makes perfect sense! Ta much!:T

lemonjelly

Originally Posted by lostinrates
Incidentally, how many peoples families do know about your online lives? The other day my father asked me how i knew someone and i said, well, i 'll tell you later...still haven't. He would think it was all very dodgy and flakey

I'm not aware that anyone is aware of my pixillated life. Indeed, I'd suggest that very few are aware of which websites & forums I use, let alone who I communicate with.

I am told by several people that I am usually a secretive kinda person anyway.:o

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I can think of worse places. Aberdeen, Cairo and anywhere in the Black Country spring to mind. Sorry in advance for the offence caused to anyone who lives in any of these places.

Come on, admit it. You're really Boris Johnson.

lemonjelly

fc123 wrote: »

Sadly, I have a friend of 14 years who I just don't don't want to interract with anymore...she is very selfish, self-obsessed, resentful of our recent work things and makes snide remarks concering my appearance or life choices so I have decided to back away. OH says she is no different to before so maybe I had a thicker skin before.

Or perhaps you're no longer willing to accept/take her cr4p?:)

How are you fc123?

purch

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I can think of worse places.

Yeah, it is nice round these parts, but when your son trains/plays Rugby in Newport most of the winter, and you have properties in London and Oxford to visit, it can be a lot of driving abart !!!!!!!

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

But... if you want a text chat, it doesn't need to be somebody on the same bus, and if you want to chat to somebody on the same bus, you can just talk to them??? Or am I just getting old?

Looking at many young peeps nowadays, the ability to interact socially has gone from their lives.
We used to talk on the bus or train. Remember when you went on a journey? How much fun was had staring out the window! People no longer do this. Everyone is constantly looking at their phone, on facefook or suchlike.

In college, you can see how students struggle with communicating, and basic things like eye contact.

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

There are apps that let you find people near you. You can also do it for yourself with bluetooth.

I've chatted with people I know on different tables in a restaurant using BBM or WhatsApp (instant messaging on smartphones).

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh, how f**** annoying... if I caught you doing that when you were at a table with me your bl00dy phone'd end up in your beer!!!!!

If your friends are so f**** amazing you can't bear to be without them when you're with me .... you can s0d off and sit with them.