When I was about 8-10 we had chickens, and one morning we found all our chicks laying dead in their yard, soaking wet. My Mom said that they were so dumb, they looked up when raindrops hit them and drowned.
The sad thing is that I believed it until I read other similar beliefs here, tonight.. I googled it and no, they just die of being cold and wet. I'm 38. Honestly, how could wild or farmed chickens survive if they were that dumb?
The REALLY sad thing is that I've kept chickens on my own for the last five years and still believed it! I just kept the chicks in the house in a box until they were "old enough" to be out in the rain. Since it was working (they had feathers before I put them out, so weren't as susceptible to chills) I figured I was saving them from drowning. :)
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that chickens reproduced A sexually and that roosters were just handicapped chickens. — Teena Strang
- When I was about seven, I was utterly convinced that chickens had leaves and trees had feathers.— Confused
- Apparently, when I was little, I used to try and grow chickens by 'planting' their feathers in the ground.— Mat
- I believed that chickens pooped eggs (male and female)— WHAT-A-Doodle-WHO??
- when i was about 7 years old i once thought that chickens had lips. thats it!Anon
- I used to think that turkeys were male chickens. Don't know why, but I did.— Felicia