birds

I grew up in a town that has chickens that like to randomly roam around. Interestingly enough, they spend most of their time in a shopping center right behind a Popeyes. I steadfastly refused to eat at that popeyes because I thought those were the chickens they killed to make the chicken you ate

Lexi

up untill i think i was 19 years old i diddnt believe that chickens had sex. either my dad or my uncle told me when i was little that a hen would lay the egg and the rooster would come by and fertilise the egg, like salmon. the only reason i do not still believe this is because my boyfriends(now husband) mother had chickens and he told me one day that they were all doing it again on the front lawn, the following conversation was very embarrasing for me but now i know better.

A. S.

In order to put us to sleep in the afternoons my mom used to tell me not to go out, coz the eagle is gonna lay a big egg on my head....we used to wait till evenings to go out and play..but still i used to watch out for the eagles..hahaha

Shafi

When I was little I used to insist that pirates' parrots didn't say "pieces of eight", they said "pieces of egg". It made a lot more sense to me, because you can't chop an eight up (OK, I didn't know an eight was an old coin) but eggs are easily sliceable.

stonergirl

My mother and aunt always told us that if you pouted and stuck out your lower lip, that the great bird of paradise would land on your nose and leave droppings on your lip.

Teri

I used to believe that the eggs you buy at the grocery store were still "alive", so when I was like 4 or 5, I brought some eggs from the grocery store into my room on a pillow. After a while, my room started to smell really bad!

Samantha

My das convinced me that the birds which sat on our trees wanted to steal them.

belle

When my cousin and I were about three or four, we thought "chicken salad" was a salad made FOR chickens to eat. So we picked an assortment of grass, dandelions and greens, arranged this lovely "salad" in a pan and presented it to my grandmother's hens. We were really disappointed when they spurned our offering. Those picky chickens!

cheri

When I was little, my family sometimes bought chicken for us to eat. I mostly ate the chicken legs, and when I was done, the bone was left over. I thought that if I saved all the bones from the chicken legs, I would be able to put them all together and make a model of a chicken's skeleton! I assumed that the bones in the chicken's legs were the same kind of bones found in the rest of it's body.

Sarah

i took an egg from the fridge and hid it in the dirty laundry hoping that it would be warm enough for the friged chick to hatch. i forgot i had done this untill my mom started loading the washer and the egg exploded on the floor. poor thing never had a chance.

Anon

I used to believe that a swan was a made-up animal for the ballet "Swan Lake". I didn't know a swan was a real animal until i was in 4th grade

Anon

My sister used to believe that chickens grew from the ground.

Anon

I used to believe that birds had a grave yard, just like an elephant grave yard. I just knew there was a field somewhere with tiny little bird bones scattered everywhere. After awhile I gave up looking for it and decided that they all died over the ocean.

Flame Boy

I used to believe, if I put one of the eggs from the fridge my mum got from the supermarket, into our airing cupboard, it would hatch into a chick... I would check it everyday for it's progress

Chrystal

Despite reading Puffin books, and indeed books about puffins as a child, i never made the connection that puffins could have been actual, real organisms. I only found out that they exist a few days ago. I'm eighteen, and in my second year of a science degree at university.

Shannon

There's an aquarium within walking distance of my house. In the wall around their penguin exhibit, they have a small cave with fake eggs. When I was a kid, I thought the eggs were real.

I told my mom that I wanted to take one of the eggs, so I could have a pet penguin. Deciding to humor me, she told me our house wasn't cold enough to keep a penguin, and asked where we'd keep it.

I said we'd keep it in the freezer, of course!

Terry

I used to believe that you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail

Eli

My dad thought robin feet were made out of wood because they look like twigs.

Molly

As a child, I thought that the yolk of the egg was the part that would have become the chick if it had been allowed to mature - probably because it was yellow. I wouldn't eat egg yolks because I thought I was eating a premature, liquified chick. One time I refused to eat my birthday cake because I saw my mom put an egg in it. Even after I finally believed the adults that were telling me it was just the food sack that would have fed the chick, it took a long time before I'd eat the yolk.

chick

When i was really little, at school, a teacher told us that we didnt listen because birds had flown in at night and made nests in our ears. i believed this for ages and was hopelessly trying to clean out the nests and close the window every night.

alex