No where else! No where else on Earth, can you... 1. Watch a presentation about chickens, and learn why an area of a plane is called what it is. 2. Hear a five minute montage of chicken idioms. 3. Watch a man, with a relatively straight face, give the afore mentioned presentation with a life sized rooster figurine standing in the background. 4. And all of this done with a yellow and magenta radiological trefoil above his head. My dear History Guy, while many "history professors" profess history in a way the is hard to remember; you Sir, do it in a way that is hard to forget. Words cannot adequately describe the experience of watching your presentations. Very well done.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. As I’m listening and laughing at all of the sayings that are based on chickens I was blown away by the number of sayings and more than that is that he thought of so many.
This is the kind of quality infotainment large corporations don't even dare dreaming of producing. Thank goodness for the Internet rescuing us from such vapid and derisive nonsense.
Thank you for all this wonderful historic information. I am elderly and live alone in a modest house with a huge fenced yard. During covid I was so depressed I spent most days in bed with the covers over my head, only getting up for a short time to let my dog and cats in or out and maybe have a piece of toast and a glass of water. I did discover u-tube and happened across some chicken videos. I found the variety amazing and closed off the corner of my yard closest to the house, but a 30 foot walk and ordered some day old bantam fancy chicks through the mail. They grew in my sunny porch and at 8-10 weeks went outside. My city allows 6 hens per person. I had to go out twice a day for the chickens and found them funny and interesting to watch. They terrify the wildlife, the cats ignor them and they play hide and seek with the dog. The man who rents an apt next door liked watching them. He has no yard, so rents half of my chicken area for $1 a month so now we have a dozen small chickens for pets and get eggs of many colors as a bonus.
In the Philippines they still have chickens that look just like the picture you showed referring to the birds they were domesticated from. The locals call them "native chicken" and their bones are very long and the meat if a bit tougher but quite delicious and much darker.
As I understand it the moa's of New Zealand were hunted to extinction by the first humans getting there. Apperently the Maori couldn't resist a 200 kg chicken.
Fried t-rex , baked t-rex roasted t-rex tyrannosaurus fricassee YUMM but we gonna more oil and barbecue sauce about 2 42 gallon drums of the stuff and ab a tanker truck full of Crisco oil to deep fry this big boy. Now dats eaten.
He has very good timing on his delivery of jokes, and also on the opposite end, he can very nicely accentuate with nothing more than silence a particuarly sad passage. I'm so happy he's on youtube making videos.
I've retired to live in a rural town and have next door neighbors who keep one rooster and thirteen chickens. I'm grateful to receive cartons of very fresh organic eggs from time to time. It's a delight to see the chickens happily scratching for their food and hearing "Mr. Big Stuff", the rooster crowing every morning.
@@thetowndrunk988 If your chicken meat is dry, I think the problem may lay in the chef. If chickens went away, McDonald's would introduce you to the McDuckin.
I'm an old,(very old) farm boy and kinda grew up with chickens. Yet today,I learned more than I ever knew. Thanks Prof. Btw,I have 20 chickens now,and they still fascinate me to this day.
@Cheryl Pierce they are clever pesky little buggers that will try and usually successfully get into your garden beds and just about everywhere else and either eat dig up or lay eggs any plant or shrub They are also very clever as they keep finding ways into said places no matter how well you protect them as well as learn what bucket usally has the scraps and where are the places that they can cause the most chaos in And BTW I have 24 of them and 20 more coming in the spring
While I know history isn't always entertaining, this episode certainly is! Very funny, very enjoyable. I'm learning a lot and at 63 I find it fun. Thanks!
I tell all my friends about this channel. It's fun, informative, often starting in revealing events in recent history, of which I was completely unaware of! Fascinating stuff!
This is our first year with chickens. Tripped across a link to this vid in the homesteading section of a forum I frequent. Now Ima hafta buy that member lunch cause this is one of the best vids I've watched on the Tube over the years. Both informative and entertaining. Hats off to you, sir. I appreciate your efforts.. 🤠
Oh Mr. HistoryGuy, we meet again. Once again I have to be awake for work in a few hours and instead I am learning the importance of chickens in the world's history. Thank you sir, I truly wish my teachers in school were as passionate about thier fields of teaching as you are about history. I would have learned much more.
One of his best episodes, with more information packed in it than any other I’ve seen. To be able to segue seamlessly so many times is prose bordering on poetry.
You forgot to mention the revolution in egg laying hens was brought about by an 18th century sea captain from Rhode Island. This Singapore Rooster caused hens to lay eggs on a predictable, consistent basis and the modern poultry industry was born. Rhode Island Red, there is even a monument to the fact in Little Compton , RI, USA
I have a flock of New Hampshire Reds. They average about 8lbs. They give me over a dozen extra large brown eggs everyday. They taste excellent! The birds are friendly, easy to handle, and actually pretty amusing to just watch for entertainment. Sometimes I'll toss them a potatoes, just to watch a game of "chicken football". It's a fun hobby, and its food, no matter what's going on in the world.
I LOVE chickens… they’re amazingly easy to work with and they can have wonderful personalities ♥️ my aunt had one who laid eggs in the fruit bowl on top of the fridge… ♥️‼️🤔🙋♀️
@@mikebolton3816 The more common egg in the south is white. I think there would be a an interest in brown eggs. Your eggs to my distribution could be a profitable endeavor
I much prefer brown eggs over white ones. They have a better flavor, IMO. But, I certainly wouldn't turn down a white egg. An egg is an egg is an egg. I'll eat every one of them I can get my hands on. Fried, scrambled, poached, or boiled, I don't even care how it's prepared, as long as it's cooked. I can honestly say that eggs are my favorite food, next to pizza. Hell, I'd even put egg on pizza. I've had it on just about everything else.
I am very thankful for your approach to historical topics. You perfectly blend technology science and culture into every one of your presentations. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put quality content on TH-cam.
Thank you. As a former farm kid in the late 50s and early 60s in southwest Virginia, my dad built a chicken house for 10,000 chics which became “fryers.” They came in large perforated cardboard boxes, back when there was only 1 chicken for every 400 people on earth. Fascinating episode. Sir, could you please do one on the lowly flying rat - the common pigeon? I discovered they originated in Persia?? We evidently got the chicken, pigeon and peacock from South Asia!!??
Once again, I came across a topic on your channel I was about to pass on. But decided to give it a chance anyway and was greatly rewarded. You managed to inform me of some of the most interesting facts on the subject of chickens. And you did so with a bright, humorous and compelling story, delivered by a very talented story teller. You sir could make chicken feed interesting. Oh wait, you just did!
Me too. I saw this video when it kept popping up on my list and thought I would also pass on it, but I'm glad I finally watched it. With the History Guy at the helm, you can always count on learning something fascinating that is completely unrelated to whatever topic the video is supposed to be about. That's what's so entertaining about his videos. No matter how much you think you know about a subject, the History Guy enlightens you with a sobering thought: no one knows everything about everything. Like the proverbial worm hiding in the ground, there is always more truth to be discovered. You just have to scratch harder at the surface to get to it. :-)
oh come on guys...its not like Google knows where you are or where you go or has satellites looking down into our back yards...oh wait they do? right! i forgot...well at least we dont type any information about ourselves in you tube comments
I think this episode is among my favorites. Not only did you outline all the culture references to chickens, but you put them all together in a short speech. One thing I don't think you mentioned is that this important human food is vulnerable to bird flu, and the lack of variety of types in production, like any monoculture practice, like planting just one tree on American streets, makes us very vulnerable to, in a short period of time, to massive numbers of dead victims. Massive deaths of chickens will lead to massive numbers of starving people. As we shift to eating the more economical chickens, and farmed fish, in place of larger animals, we need to diversify and avoid, genetically, "putting all our eggs in one basket." Thanks for enriching all of us with you colorful plumage!
Agreed. We’ll need to try to diversify chickens so that bird flu won’t kill quite as many, perhaps we’ll need to start selecting for better immune systems.
@@axlebain3689 millions of poultry were killed recently in my area by my government when they found them to be infected...... 🤔 Egg prices went up. Chicken prices were cheap.... 🤔 👃✌️🇨🇦
Really great content! Can't believe I listened for free. This is what used to make the History Channel great. Felt like I was watching Modern Marvels. Thank you and please keep it up!
Absolutely brilliant!!! Outstanding Mr. History Guy!!!! I really enjoy your channel and this episode is one of my favorites!!! I learned so much in the past 16 minutes and I literally laughed out loud!! Thank you sir! Thank you!!!
Another excellent history lesson, thanks for covering so many diverse and interesting subjects. I can't think of another channel on the y-tube that has such consistently high quality and informative content. You sir are a superstar in history education, in my book. It's too bad there aren't more teachers like this at schools. Most would improve just by playing your videos every day in class.
+Tyrone Kim G'day, Well, I didn't know of the Yachting connection, but the Aeronautical Cockpit was always said to have been so named because in an Open Single-Seater the Cockpit's oadded Coaming is about 3 ft in diameter, and the Aeronautical Cockpit has about the same depth - 3 ft, which was apparently pretty close to the proportions of a traditional Cock(Fighting)pit. And, also, for the Skoolbois...; inside the Aeronautical Cockpit, the Pilot controls Pitch & Roll with the "Joystick" which projects up between their Legs...(!). Just(ifiably ?) sayin', And, the sayin is not, "don't count your EGGS...", but, "Don't count your CHICKENS, before they have hatched...", as well. ;-p Ciao !
That was awesome. I never thought about there being so many metaphors referring to chickens until you put them all back to back. Thanks for that research and production.
Haha.....I once had a flock of chickens and I was flushing a gopher out of its burrow with a garden hose. The soaked creature crawled out and before I could retrieve it, the chickens ran over, attacked it, and tore it to shreds fighting over the scraps.
From presidential eyeglasses, now to CHICKENS. Only the HISTORY GUY could astound us with CHICKENS. Who knew CHICKENS were so interesting. Thank you HISTORY GUY. Please continue to astound us and keep us interested in all that's history.
I thought this was one of the most entertaining videos of history you've ever done but I'm partial. Hubby and I raised chickens and he majored in chickens in his agricultural degree. I had to keep rewinding because Id start laughing and would miss something! Absolutely well done!!!
Great episode. I might add that when your penmanship is less than ideal, people used to say it looked like chicken scratches. A dish that we ate frequently growing up was called City Chicken. I was told it came about at a time when chicken was harder to come by. It's pieces of pork and veal on small wooden skewers, dredged in seasoned flour and fried like chicken. It''s delicious.
I also salute you sir. I'm an electrical engineer, but I'm well aware that I don't live, if I don't eat. Your job is the most important vital job on the planet. I don't make anything important, no electrical engineer does.
@@fuzzywzhe these days it takes electrical engineers to properly wire a modern chicken house, due to all these modern systems we have. 40 years ago you just had drop lights, feed and water troughs, fans, and gas heaters. Today its alot more complex...so thanks for your contribution to society as well.
....The question " why did the chicken cross the road ?" is more clever than meets the ear, as in I have had free-range chickens my whole life, and at fifty-seven I have yet to see one hit by a car as they do not cross the road. I believe it is the fact that they see nothing to eat on the asphalt whereas there are multiple pieces of grit ,bugs and seeds everywhere else. I live on route 1 in eastern Maine and logging trucks commonly roll by at seventy miles an hour, and have often been told my chickens will be hit as they often eat grit on the gravel roadside....yet never, in my fifty-seven years , have I ever seen a chicken killed by a car...... ........If the number of cats and dogs I've seen killed on the road were known , everyone would have more respect for being "chicken".....
We have had a couple of chickens hit in the road but both were specific circumstances. The first was chased into the road by a stray Tom and the second was probably the dumbest chicken on the planet and just walked straight out into traffic. Almost like it was committing suicide.
Our neighbor's chickens are often seen across the road from his house. But I've never seen one that failed to be out of the way or one that was killed by traffic. Perhaps they aren't so bird brained after all.
I also have free-range chickens. 2/3 incubated and 1/3 raised by the hen. Every year some of the incubated young chickens travel to the yard with a dog that loves chickens too much. 2 or three will not make it out. After that they will never go back. The chicks raised by a hen never go in the yard at all. Chickens have there own special form of genius.
THG never fails to capture my interest. Outside of every compliment others have already placed upon you, THG is very well written & produced. Keep on bringing me back !!
THIS ONE WAS FUNNY, INFORMATIVE AND JUST BRILLIANT! The T-Rex link at the end made me sit up, mouth the word “chicken” with you, guffaw and then fall out of my chair. Oh jeez great one. Thank you very much I really needed that!
When I was 10, I worked on a farm in the summertime. The farmer’s wife had a big garden, and sold vegetables and fruit at a roadside stand. I helped her. She also sold eggs. So, one of my chores was to collect eggs. Hens don’t want you to take their eggs!!
This was really entertaining. I stumbled across your channel and can’t get enough. Really interesting and educational, but entertaining at the same time
A Roman poet of the early 1900s, named Trilussa, centered his work on social commentary, and he wrote a sonnet titled "statistics". In it, he points out that it's no consolation when people can afford on average a chicken per person, if it means that half the population will eat two and the other half will eat none. This reference is general culture for Italians, to the extent that, colloquially and in the press, a misleading average is often referred to as "average of Trilussa's chicken".
Another great presentation! Couldn't help but notice you dodged any 'pecker' references. What r'ya chicken? Keep up the great history nuances...always entertaining!
Haha. Yay! This popped up in my recommendations right when I was done feeding my chickens and about to go buy a couple more baby chicks. I love chickens. They can be so sweet and good pets. They actually each have different personalities and the breeds vary greatly. Thanks for doing this video! Loved every second of it!
@@JoozOwnTheMedia-xi3fl I love animals too. But I personally don't believe in the vegan lifestyle. I have no problem with those who choose to live that way. But it's just not for me.
@@kari7403 how can you kill someone or something you love? Not saying to go vegan but it is a lot safer. Animal spirits will protect you in mirror world
@@JoozOwnTheMedia-xi3fl Not something I care to get into with someone I don't know. No offence. It's just it's my personal choice and my life. I don't feel the need to answer to anyone for living the way I do.
Another great video. Only The History Guy could make me watch 16 minutes of something to do with Chickens. While making it informative and entertaining at the same time. Thank you sir. Well done again.
Bonus fact: Over here calling someone a chicken is a childish insult that is rarely taken seriously, but apparently in Russia and some eastern european countries it's super offensive.
Birds in general are considered bad luck according to old Russian superstition. If a bird entered a person's home, it called for prayers and lots of wailing to ward off evil spirits.
Were you a college professor and told a condensed version of your stories at the beginning of each lecture, you would be the most popular history teacher at the university... I really enjoy listening to your videos. Thank you.
My father was a college professor and told silly jokes or short stories at the beginning of each class his students had great attendance. Later my brother started teaching at the same University and had to be careful not to tell the same jokes. To get credits for my teaching certificate to stay valid I took several of my father's classes they were fun.
I am an avid follower of your excellent short videos.You have created a new art form.Informative,factual,funny,entertaining& stimulating over a wonderfully diverse range of subjects, all impeccably researched.Long may you continue. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
This is a great segment, and the fowl & poultry phrases countdown near the end reminded me of a delightful ABC TV show I saw as a kid called 'Make A Wish', hosted by Tom Chapin. :) Nicely done.
Actually the broth from a healthy chicken has vitamins that help the immune system. Most chickens today are NOT healthy and live and die in horrible and inhumane conditions.
One of my high school teachers had a rubber chicken for a hall pass, that he called Gregory; from the joke: why did the chicken cross the road? To se his friend, Gregory, peck.
TpzBla Yeah, in-laws had a breeder farm, and I worked in the houses. The hens would fly by and claw you, the roosters would wait until you passed, then go to town. It was so nice when one would puff up in front of me, and I could actually defend myself. I *hated* the ones in Nana's house. They were huge and evil.
@@WintrBorn I had turkeys years ago, along with chickens and ducks. Had a 40lb (18 kilo) tom who strutted the yard. One day I squatted down to inspect the mosquitofish in my duck pond, and said tom ran up behind me and kicked me in the back, nearly toppling me into the pond. I stood up, and he ran away as I chased him and swatted him with a sandal. From then on, I warned neighbors and friends never to bring their small children around the birds. Imagine if instead of me the tom had kicked a small child into that pond.
Okay, don't get your feathers in a rough. There's nothing to get broody about. You can always start from scratch you dumb cluck. I hope I didn't lay an egg with this post.
Late in the evening, barely awake, snoozing to the History Guy despite his measured gat. Eyes pop open when hearing the news that the Tyrannosaurus rex dispute his great, must have tasted like chicken...........what a horrid fate. We have got to love this most wonderful man, a grand master of his trade.
I remember my Grandfather telling me that he, my grandmother, and their one son all used to like chicken legs for Sunday dinner, so after years of selected breeding, he was able to breed a 3-legged chicken. I asked him how it tasted and he told me that since it had 3 legs, it ran so fast that he could never catch it.
i have a few chickens as pets. I have truely enjoyed this presentation. i do whatch a lot of your history segments. they are apreciated and NEEDED! tHANK yOU.
No where else! No where else on Earth, can you...
1. Watch a presentation about chickens, and learn why an area of a plane is called what it is.
2. Hear a five minute montage of chicken idioms.
3. Watch a man, with a relatively straight face, give the afore mentioned presentation with a life sized rooster figurine standing in the background.
4. And all of this done with a yellow and magenta radiological trefoil above his head.
My dear History Guy, while many "history professors" profess history in a way the is hard to remember; you Sir, do it in a way that is hard to forget.
Words cannot adequately describe the experience of watching your presentations. Very well done.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. As I’m listening and laughing at all of the sayings that are based on chickens I was blown away by the number of sayings and more than that is that he thought of so many.
Tarnished Knight Here, here!! So agreed!
This is the kind of quality infotainment large corporations don't even dare dreaming of producing. Thank goodness for the Internet rescuing us from such vapid and derisive nonsense.
Tarnished Knight I agree it was so interesting
@@ohmeowzer1, too bad all teachers can not be this interesting.
Thank you for all this wonderful historic information. I am elderly and live alone in a modest house with a huge fenced yard. During covid I was so depressed I spent most days in bed with the covers over my head, only getting up for a short time to let my dog and cats in or out and maybe have a piece of toast and a glass of water. I did discover u-tube and happened across some chicken videos. I found the variety amazing and closed off the corner of my yard closest to the house, but a 30 foot walk and ordered some day old bantam fancy chicks through the mail. They grew in my sunny porch and at 8-10 weeks went outside. My city allows 6 hens per person. I had to go out twice a day for the chickens and found them funny and interesting to watch. They terrify the wildlife, the cats ignor them and they play hide and seek with the dog. The man who rents an apt next door liked watching them. He has no yard, so rents half of my chicken area for $1 a month so now we have a dozen small chickens for pets and get eggs of many colors as a bonus.
In the Philippines they still have chickens that look just like the picture you showed referring to the birds they were domesticated from. The locals call them "native chicken" and their bones are very long and the meat if a bit tougher but quite delicious and much darker.
..." Tyrannosaurus Rex tasted like Chicken.".. I certainly wasn't expecting to hear that today. Thank You
Imagine wing night!
@@fastst1 Drumsticks, baby! Think of the bar-b-que sauce needed... =:-)
@@dleland71 We're gonna need a bigger grille!
As I understand it the moa's of New Zealand were hunted to extinction by the first humans getting there. Apperently the Maori couldn't resist a 200 kg chicken.
Fried t-rex , baked t-rex roasted t-rex tyrannosaurus fricassee YUMM but we gonna more oil and barbecue sauce about 2 42 gallon drums of the stuff and ab a tanker truck full of Crisco oil to deep fry this big boy. Now dats eaten.
Your face at the end when you announced “must have tasted like chicken “ was priceless. Lol! This is a great channel.
I laughed enough to bring a tear to my eye.
He seemed quite satisfied / proud of that punchline, and well he should be. It made me chuckle too!
I laughed out loud at that line.
Afterwards, he went home to roost! I'm sorry, that was fowl. 🐔🐓
He has very good timing on his delivery of jokes, and also on the opposite end, he can very nicely accentuate with nothing more than silence a particuarly sad passage.
I'm so happy he's on youtube making videos.
I've retired to live in a rural town and have next door neighbors who keep one rooster and thirteen chickens. I'm grateful to receive cartons of very fresh organic eggs from time to time. It's a delight to see the chickens happily scratching for their food and hearing "Mr. Big Stuff", the rooster crowing every morning.
And the owls flying by
Going
Hoot do to you think you are
Mr big stuff
As long as your schedule ... particularly your *sleep* schedule ... is similar to that rooster's! LOL! ;-D
Warm Regards and Best Wishes,
@Kenngo1969
I dream of a world where a chicken can cross the road without having his or her motives questioned.
Are you an Avian supremacist?! Cease this cockamamie stuff
ROFLMBO
Just wear a mask.
Notice how nobody said CLM !! Yeah !! Cuz they don't.
@@thetowndrunk988 If your chicken meat is dry, I think the problem may lay in the chef. If chickens went away, McDonald's would introduce you to the McDuckin.
I'm an old,(very old) farm boy and kinda grew up with chickens. Yet today,I learned more than I ever knew. Thanks Prof. Btw,I have 20 chickens now,and they still fascinate me to this day.
Hi, gotcha going. I would like to know what it is that fascinates you about chickens.
@@good__enough get you a few. Lol
Watch their pecking order and the way they move and act. Enjoy the eggs in the process.
@Cheryl Pierce they are clever pesky little buggers that will try and usually successfully get into your garden beds and just about everywhere else and either eat dig up or lay eggs any plant or shrub
They are also very clever as they keep finding ways into said places no matter how well you protect them as well as learn what bucket usally has the scraps and where are the places that they can cause the most chaos in
And BTW I have 24 of them and 20 more coming in the spring
Lol. Cock's have spers on their legs but they're not sharp. More like a bone outgrowth than knife.
When I go to my friends farm, I love the sound that hens & roosters make. I love the colourful tail feathers of roosters !
While I know history isn't always entertaining, this episode certainly is! Very funny, very enjoyable.
I'm learning a lot and at 63 I find it fun. Thanks!
Yeah, yt is much better than tv.
I was born in ‘59 as well
Hello from SanDiego
So happy I stumbled upon this channel last month, I can't get enough of these obscure topics. Keep up your fantastic work, Mr. History Guy!
This channel is crack!
This is the best history channel on TH-cam if not the best channel on TH-cam period surprise this channel doesn’t have 20 Million subscribers
I tell all my friends about this channel. It's fun, informative, often starting in revealing events in recent history, of which I was completely unaware of! Fascinating stuff!
This is our first year with chickens. Tripped across a link to this vid in the homesteading section of a forum I frequent. Now Ima hafta buy that member lunch cause this is one of the best vids I've watched on the Tube over the years. Both informative and entertaining.
Hats off to you, sir. I appreciate your efforts.. 🤠
This is a superb channel, I really appreciate your work. 😊
It's very good isn't it? Always informative, always entertaining, always quality viewing.
I learn so much from this channel- it would have been amazing to have teachers this good when I was in school!
Totally agree, and no jump cuts in the narration! Seems like a small thing but personally i appreciate it immensely.!
🤗
I have been a very long time subscriber and seen them all.
This may have been his best episode yet. The History Guy sure can spin a yarn.
Friend: what are you watching?
Me: the importance of chickens in religion, history and culture.
Friend: Learn anything?
Me: A lot, such as, the cockpit of a boat or aircraft is named after a pit in which cocks fought!
Friend: Seriously!?!
and a truck load of Chicken idioms.:D
Bravo!
Because I already watched the one on bananas.
@@FiferSkipper yeah this one was especially informative the reason for the rooster on the weather vain was a revelation
Oh Mr. HistoryGuy, we meet again. Once again I have to be awake for work in a few hours and instead I am learning the importance of chickens in the world's history. Thank you sir, I truly wish my teachers in school were as passionate about thier fields of teaching as you are about history. I would have learned much more.
It's never too late to learn! Just keep asking questions. As long as you are curious, you can learn anything.
That was insanely entertaining and informative. Well done.
I can't agree more. Your comment embodied my feelings exactly.
One of his best episodes, with more information packed in it than any other I’ve seen. To be able to segue seamlessly so many times is prose bordering on poetry.
After spewing my egg drop soup across the dining table I now have all this information stuck in my craw -
I was around aircraft all my 25 years in the Navy.....no one knew why it was called a cockpit. Aren't you something!
look up Coxswain.
We always suspected it had something to do with Air Force pilots...
Proper etiquette, should the flight crew be all female, is to refer to the "cockpit" as the "box office".
@@tedphillips2501 HAHAHAA!!!
You forgot to mention the revolution in egg laying hens was brought about by an 18th century sea captain from Rhode Island. This Singapore Rooster caused hens to lay eggs on a predictable, consistent basis and the modern poultry industry was born. Rhode Island Red, there is even a monument to the fact in Little Compton , RI, USA
I have a flock of New Hampshire Reds. They average about 8lbs. They give me over a dozen extra large brown eggs everyday. They taste excellent! The birds are friendly, easy to handle, and actually pretty amusing to just watch for entertainment. Sometimes I'll toss them a potatoes, just to watch a game of "chicken football".
It's a fun hobby, and its food, no matter what's going on in the world.
I LOVE chickens… they’re amazingly easy to work with and they can have wonderful personalities ♥️ my aunt had one who laid eggs in the fruit bowl on top of the fridge… ♥️‼️🤔🙋♀️
@@mikebolton3816 This is a breed new to me. Thank you for sharing this with us all 👍😊👏
@@mikebolton3816 The more common egg in the south is white. I think there would be a an interest in brown eggs. Your eggs to my distribution could be a profitable endeavor
I much prefer brown eggs over white ones. They have a better flavor, IMO. But, I certainly wouldn't turn down a white egg. An egg is an egg is an egg. I'll eat every one of them I can get my hands on. Fried, scrambled, poached, or boiled, I don't even care how it's prepared, as long as it's cooked. I can honestly say that eggs are my favorite food, next to pizza. Hell, I'd even put egg on pizza. I've had it on just about everything else.
I am very thankful for your approach to historical topics. You perfectly blend technology science and culture into every one of your presentations. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put quality content on TH-cam.
Being a small chicken farmer, I loved this video. Had me laughing all the way to the coops this morning. 👍👍
i just had to shut our chicken coops and now i cant stop thinking of all my t-rex's
Garrett Dingman look in to a Chickens eye and you now there a T-Rex
Your stature has nothing to do with your productivity!
@@conveyor2 I am 5'1", what are you trying to say? LOL
@martin corderoy I dunno, being 5'1" tall, I try to keep things relative to my size. LOL
Thank you. As a former farm kid in the late 50s and early 60s in southwest Virginia, my dad built a chicken house for 10,000 chics which became “fryers.” They came in large perforated cardboard boxes, back when there was only 1 chicken for every 400 people on earth. Fascinating episode.
Sir, could you please do one on the lowly flying rat - the common pigeon? I discovered they originated in Persia?? We evidently got the chicken, pigeon and peacock from South Asia!!??
th-cam.com/video/b8BPANZzsyU/w-d-xo.html. th-cam.com/video/cDwsnpo066g/w-d-xo.html
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Chicken crossed the road to prove to the Opossum that it Could Be Done! 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
@@lilblackduc7312Why did a pervert cross the road?
A chicken was on the other side! 😆
@@BubbafromSapperton Reminds me of the president OBiden, somehow. 🤔 😳
@@lilblackduc7312Oh Christ, dude.
What do you idjits say?
Dey r living rent free in ur hed, ahyuck
This is it. I don't know how the History Guy will be able to top this one. Absolutely hysterical, and historical- brilliant work sir!
You know it's going to be a good day when you wake up to a 16 minute video titled why did the chicken cross the road
I just did. I'm smiling already.
Once again, I came across a topic on your channel I was about to pass on. But decided to give it a chance anyway and was greatly rewarded.
You managed to inform me of some of the most interesting facts on the subject of chickens. And you did so with a bright, humorous and compelling story, delivered by a very talented story teller. You sir could make chicken feed interesting. Oh wait, you just did!
Me too. I saw this video when it kept popping up on my list and thought I would also pass on it, but I'm glad I finally watched it.
With the History Guy at the helm, you can always count on learning something fascinating that is completely unrelated to whatever topic the video is supposed to be about. That's what's so entertaining about his videos. No matter how much you think you know about a subject, the History Guy enlightens you with a sobering thought: no one knows everything about everything.
Like the proverbial worm hiding in the ground, there is always more truth to be discovered. You just have to scratch harder at the surface to get to it. :-)
How appropriate, I just came in from tending to our 20 chickens to see this at the top of my feed(unintended pun) LOL
Me too! I can’t imagine my farmyard without chickens.
@@jessepitt i cant imagine my plate without chicken. 🍗
Dirk Diggler that too😆
oh come on guys...its not like Google knows where you are or where you go or has satellites looking down into our back yards...oh wait they do? right! i forgot...well at least we dont type any information about ourselves in you tube comments
@@philtripe I'm not too concerned that google knows I have chickens.
I think this episode is among my favorites. Not only did you outline all the culture references to chickens, but you put them all together in a short speech. One thing I don't think you mentioned is that this important human food is vulnerable to bird flu, and the lack of variety of types in production, like any monoculture practice, like planting just one tree on American streets, makes us very vulnerable to, in a short period of time, to massive numbers of dead victims. Massive deaths of chickens will lead to massive numbers of starving people. As we shift to eating the more economical chickens, and farmed fish, in place of larger animals, we need to diversify and avoid, genetically, "putting all our eggs in one basket." Thanks for enriching all of us with you colorful plumage!
Bird flu, my a$$.
Global warming causes pandemics and not just in humans
Agreed. We’ll need to try to diversify chickens so that bird flu won’t kill quite as many, perhaps we’ll need to start selecting for better immune systems.
@@axlebain3689 millions of poultry were killed recently in my area by my government when they found them to be infected...... 🤔 Egg prices went up. Chicken prices were cheap.... 🤔 👃✌️🇨🇦
@@galeparker1067 In Germany they propose 10g (!) meat per day. I repeat: 10g!!!
And people don' t react!
Worse than sheep.
You sir, are a treasure. This may be the best TH-cam channel ever! Keep them coming!
Shared with the Backyard Chicken Group on facebook. Hope it brings new subscribers and thank you, really enjoyed this episode.
Really great content! Can't believe I listened for free. This is what used to make the History Channel great. Felt like I was watching Modern Marvels. Thank you and please keep it up!
Your channel is truly something to crow about! Thank you for taking the time to give us interesting history that deserves to be remembered!
Absolutely brilliant!!! Outstanding Mr. History Guy!!!! I really enjoy your channel and this episode is one of my favorites!!! I learned so much in the past 16 minutes and I literally laughed out loud!! Thank you sir! Thank you!!!
Lance is something of an expert in researching facts, but I don't think I've EVER seen so many facts packed into so a short video!
Another excellent history lesson, thanks for covering so many diverse and interesting subjects. I can't think of another channel on the y-tube that has such consistently high quality and informative content. You sir are a superstar in history education, in my book. It's too bad there aren't more teachers like this at schools. Most would improve just by playing your videos every day in class.
Consistently high diversity of subjects!
Now I know the origin of the word cockpit. Thanks. This was a very enjoyable video to watch.
Seconded. I am a HUGE aviation fan and have often wondered about the source of this term.
+Tyrone Kim
G'day,
Well, I didn't know of the Yachting connection, but the Aeronautical Cockpit was always said to have been so named because in an Open Single-Seater the Cockpit's oadded Coaming is about 3 ft in diameter, and the Aeronautical Cockpit has about the same depth - 3 ft, which was apparently pretty close to the proportions of a traditional Cock(Fighting)pit.
And, also, for the Skoolbois...; inside the Aeronautical Cockpit, the Pilot controls Pitch & Roll with the "Joystick" which projects up between their Legs...(!).
Just(ifiably ?) sayin',
And, the sayin is not,
"don't count your EGGS...",
but,
"Don't count your CHICKENS, before they have hatched...",
as well.
;-p
Ciao !
Way to go history guy! We learned a lot just waiting for a shot at the ferry. Keep on going! Awesome stuff.
That was awesome. I never thought about there being so many metaphors referring to chickens until you put them all back to back.
Thanks for that research and production.
The more I see your videos, the more I enjoy them. You do a fantastic job, and you communicate very well. Thank you for the education you provide.
@ 10:00 :D I loved how you pegged the "old sayings" to their origins. This channel is very enjoyable. Thank you.
When I watch my Chickens hunt down bugs and small reptiles...I can definitely see T-rex in their DNA
Haha.....I once had a flock of chickens and I was flushing a gopher out of its burrow with a garden hose. The soaked creature crawled out and before I could retrieve it, the chickens ran over, attacked it, and tore it to shreds fighting over the scraps.
Oh yeah, you don't have to look to hard to see it.
I watched a prior herd of my tiny dinosaurs tear apart a vole/mole that one of the cats had mortally wounded...
They are definitely vicious animals.
Raptors with feathers.
That was an excellent summary of the significance of chickens to human existence and culture, thank you.
True. I always wondered why the French and my local football team thought the roosters was a good name.
From presidential eyeglasses, now to CHICKENS. Only the HISTORY GUY could astound us with CHICKENS. Who knew CHICKENS were so interesting.
Thank you HISTORY GUY. Please continue to astound us and keep us interested in all that's history.
The chicken crossed the road to watch the History Guy.
Who wouldn't? This stuff is informative and entertaining.
The chicken crossed the road to lay it on the line
@@jamesmacleod9382 , rat Own !
Meanwhile, T Rex production fell out of favor, and is almost unheard of today.
@Fred . . . but they did taste like chicken .
Who's eating who?
Sigh, now I have a craving for southern fried T-rex...
I guess the egg from a T-Rex would taste like chicken. I wonder what a balut t-rex would taste like. 🦖 🍳
@@billdougan4022 - Mmm, Southern Fried Predator, yum.
By far one of the best videos ever produced by THG. I especially enjoyed all the chicken references found in the English language.
I thought this was one of the most entertaining videos of history you've ever done but I'm partial. Hubby and I raised chickens and he majored in chickens in his agricultural degree. I had to keep rewinding because Id start laughing and would miss something! Absolutely well done!!!
Janice MacEachern
I think that degree is called; Poultry Science, these days!
Cool beans!!! But you forgot the old saying "shes a tuff ol'bird".Meaning there are older,hearty&wiser🐔
And not worth inviting to dinner...
Not specifically a chicken, though
Great episode. I might add that when your penmanship is less than ideal, people used to say it looked like chicken scratches. A dish that we ate frequently growing up was called City Chicken. I was told it came about at a time when chicken was harder to come by. It's pieces of pork and veal on small wooden skewers, dredged in seasoned flour and fried like chicken. It''s delicious.
I'm a chicken farmer, and i approve this message. :-)
People like you are the backbone of our economy. Thank you!
I also salute you sir. I'm an electrical engineer, but I'm well aware that I don't live, if I don't eat. Your job is the most important vital job on the planet. I don't make anything important, no electrical engineer does.
@@Alloverthecarpet1 you're welcome.
@@fuzzywzhe these days it takes electrical engineers to properly wire a modern chicken house, due to all these modern systems we have. 40 years ago you just had drop lights, feed and water troughs, fans, and gas heaters. Today its alot more complex...so thanks for your contribution to society as well.
John w LOL
Yes. This is the content I subscribed for!
I absolutely LOVE this episode! I had no idea so many idioms were connected to chickens! Thank you so much.
....The question " why did the chicken cross the road ?" is more clever than meets the ear, as in I have had free-range chickens my whole life,
and at fifty-seven I have yet to see one hit by a car as they do not cross the road.
I believe it is the fact that they see nothing to eat on the asphalt whereas there are multiple pieces of grit ,bugs and seeds everywhere else.
I live on route 1 in eastern Maine and logging trucks commonly roll by at seventy miles an hour, and have often been told my chickens will be hit as they often eat grit on the gravel roadside....yet never, in my fifty-seven years , have I ever seen a chicken killed by a car......
........If the number of cats and dogs I've seen killed on the road were known , everyone would have more respect for being "chicken".....
That's pretty interesting as a tractor trailer driver myself I have never seen a dead chicken!
We have had a couple of chickens hit in the road but both were specific circumstances. The first was chased into the road by a stray Tom and the second was probably the dumbest chicken on the planet and just walked straight out into traffic. Almost like it was committing suicide.
Our neighbor's chickens are often seen across the road from his house. But I've never seen one that failed to be out of the way or one that was killed by traffic. Perhaps they aren't so bird brained after all.
We nearly hit a few my neighbors have. Then again, the field across the way had had corn and wheat, so can't blame them.
I also have free-range chickens. 2/3 incubated and 1/3 raised by the hen. Every year some of the incubated young chickens travel to the yard with a dog that loves chickens too much. 2 or three will not make it out. After that they will never go back. The chicks raised by a hen never go in the yard at all. Chickens have there own special form of genius.
THG never fails to capture my interest. Outside of every compliment others have already placed upon you, THG is very well written & produced. Keep on bringing me back !!
This was absolutely spectacular. I always enjoy your work, but this one was over the top. Thank you so much.
If a person has sloppy hand writing it is called, "chicken scratch."
Oh ya....
I never thought about all these sayings that involve a chicken. Amazing!
AKA Doctors
And if you write with a bird, it's called tweeting.
And if your welds come out wrong it's "chicken shit" because well... when a bad weld bunches up it looks like poop. (Metal welding if no one got it.)
@@lobolj53 we always called it bird turding but same idea lol
Texas version: Why did the chicken cross the road?
To show the armadillo that it could be done.
And armadillos have been getting smacked by cars ever since.
or the hedgehog.
bravo
Or show the Possum it can be done, in the South East of Texas.
Or the skunk!
THIS ONE WAS FUNNY, INFORMATIVE AND JUST BRILLIANT!
The T-Rex link at the end made me sit up, mouth the word “chicken” with you, guffaw and then fall out of my chair.
Oh jeez great one.
Thank you very much I really needed that!
This is excellent. History guy, you totally rock! In fact, your ability to rock is eclipsed only by your ability to totally rule.
cobrajetter He’s the cock of the walk. 🐓
So you're saying he "has something to crow about"... which of course...…..given the episode....
Alright settle down lol
This felt like part Paul Harvey/Part Andy Rooney. lol. nice job.
No it felt like The History Guy 🙄
Dude! You took away all the jokes LOL! That's a feather in your cap!
thats chicken shit
A professional as well as entertaining production. Thank you for your efforts.
When I was 10, I worked on a farm in the summertime. The farmer’s wife had a big garden, and sold vegetables and fruit at a roadside stand. I helped her. She also sold eggs. So, one of my chores was to collect eggs. Hens don’t want you to take their eggs!!
Loved this one. My father raised chickens and it was so cool to learn how noble a bird they are.
We all know that the chicken crossed the road because he had his coupe` parked on the other side.
Great video. Thanks.
my coupe is out back . chvy 427 4 speed!
@@timothyfair6058... Hurst?
Why did the pervert cross the road?? He was stuck to the chicken
To show the armidillo it could be done.
I finally have a better joke for this lol
This was really entertaining. I stumbled across your channel and can’t get enough. Really interesting and educational, but entertaining at the same time
A Roman poet of the early 1900s, named Trilussa, centered his work on social commentary, and he wrote a sonnet titled "statistics". In it, he points out that it's no consolation when people can afford on average a chicken per person, if it means that half the population will eat two and the other half will eat none.
This reference is general culture for Italians, to the extent that, colloquially and in the press, a misleading average is often referred to as "average of Trilussa's chicken".
I hope for a world when chickens can cross the road without having their motives challenged.
:)
Why did the pervert cross the road?
Avian Profiling!
They use a PELICON crossing in the UK so that they are loyal to avians. (Pedestrian Light Controlled).
I like your pluck.
@@luciusavenus8715 Why
What a _fun_ episode. I always click "like" before I even view your episodes. I have learned so much from you History Guy. Thanks for everything.😀
When a comic tells a joke that bombs it is said “He laid an egg”.
Another truly brilliant and superbly amusing episode...Thanks
So far this is my absolute favorite episode of THG. Unique subject, Informative and Humorous. Thank you.
Another great presentation! Couldn't help but notice you dodged any 'pecker' references. What r'ya chicken? Keep up the great history nuances...always entertaining!
Haha. Yay! This popped up in my recommendations right when I was done feeding my chickens and about to go buy a couple more baby chicks.
I love chickens. They can be so sweet and good pets. They actually each have different personalities and the breeds vary greatly.
Thanks for doing this video! Loved every second of it!
i love animals! go vegan!
@@JoozOwnTheMedia-xi3fl I love animals too. But I personally don't believe in the vegan lifestyle. I have no problem with those who choose to live that way. But it's just not for me.
@@kari7403 how can you kill someone or something you love? Not saying to go vegan but it is a lot safer. Animal spirits will protect you in mirror world
@@JoozOwnTheMedia-xi3fl Not something I care to get into with someone I don't know. No offence. It's just it's my personal choice and my life. I don't feel the need to answer to anyone for living the way I do.
@@JoozOwnTheMedia-xi3fl Put down the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!
Another great video. Only The History Guy could make me watch 16 minutes of something to do with Chickens. While making it informative and entertaining at the same time. Thank you sir. Well done again.
The amount of references to chickens in every day life is amazing.
This channel is just so well done. Good on you history guy.
Dude, I never stopped to think of how many of our idioms come from chickens. Thank you so much, this was super informative.
We had red hens, and thus I can say confidently that the saying "mean as red hen" is quite apt.
Bonus fact: Over here calling someone a chicken is a childish insult that is rarely taken seriously, but apparently in Russia and some eastern european countries it's super offensive.
Birds in general are considered bad luck according to old Russian superstition. If a bird entered a person's home, it called for prayers and lots of wailing to ward off evil spirits.
I heard in southeast Asia calling someone a chicken meant calling them tasty,
WAY too much testosterone flowing "over there".
"HA HA, you make me laugh!"
Chicken or hens. Are used to refer to a woman who's a slut or a prostitute. Their pimps are called chick fathers.
I used to wonder why the chook was on the weather vane. Thanks History Guy.
Were you a college professor and told a condensed version of your stories at the beginning of each lecture, you would be the most popular history teacher at the university... I really enjoy listening to your videos. Thank you.
I suggest you put it on one and a half speed or one and a quarter or maybe even faster.
My father was a college professor and told silly jokes or short stories at the beginning of each class his students had great attendance. Later my brother started teaching at the same University and had to be careful not to tell the same jokes. To get credits for my teaching certificate to stay valid I took several of my father's classes they were fun.
This is now one of my favorite videos to recommend to friends. What a hoot. Great job. Thanks for the laugh at the end. Priceless!
I am an avid follower of your excellent short videos.You have created a new art form.Informative,factual,funny,entertaining& stimulating over a wonderfully diverse range of subjects, all impeccably researched.Long may you continue.
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This episode went by unnoticed by me when it came out five years ago. Just watched it and it’s in my top five of all your episodes.
Perfect timing on this. I just started keeping chickens. Thank You Sir!!
I love your channel! This has got to be one of my favourite videos you have made! I raise a few hens for fresh eggs. JA
This is a great segment, and the fowl & poultry phrases countdown near the end reminded me of a delightful ABC TV show I saw as a kid called 'Make A Wish', hosted by Tom Chapin. :) Nicely done.
Don't forget the most common folk medicine: chicken soup. It may not cure you, but it will at least make you feel better.
There are identified medical benefits to chicken soup! www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11035691
Actually the broth from a healthy chicken has vitamins that help the immune system. Most chickens today are NOT healthy and live and die in horrible and inhumane conditions.
@@christianfreedom-seeker2025 Unless you raise them yourself
@@christianfreedom-seeker2025 yup poor animals of food industrie 😢
except for the chicken
One of my high school teachers had a rubber chicken for a hall pass, that he called Gregory; from the joke: why did the chicken cross the road? To se his friend, Gregory, peck.
No way! One of my teachers had a rubber chicken for a hall pass, too. Although it wasn't named Gregory.
Ha ha ha
You are a wealth of information and your delivery is impeccable! Thanks!
So that scene in Jurassic Park where the kid described the velociraptor as a 6ft turkey, he was slightly closer to being correct than we thought?
Neill Oldham Most raptors were small - turkey size is pretty average. Of course, if you have ever pissed off a turkey, you'd be scared.
Yes, though the joke my be even more a velociraptor is actually the size of a turkey.
@@WintrBorn Indeed Turkeys are mean birds. Roosters can be too I have my fair share of puncture scars on my legs from my mothers Rhode Island Reds.
TpzBla Yeah, in-laws had a breeder farm, and I worked in the houses. The hens would fly by and claw you, the roosters would wait until you passed, then go to town.
It was so nice when one would puff up in front of me, and I could actually defend myself. I *hated* the ones in Nana's house. They were huge and evil.
@@WintrBorn I had turkeys years ago, along with chickens and ducks. Had a 40lb (18 kilo) tom who strutted the yard. One day I squatted down to inspect the mosquitofish in my duck pond, and said tom ran up behind me and kicked me in the back, nearly toppling me into the pond. I stood up, and he ran away as I chased him and swatted him with a sandal. From then on, I warned neighbors and friends never to bring their small children around the birds. Imagine if instead of me the tom had kicked a small child into that pond.
If someone has bad intentions, they're a fox in the henhouse!
If you appoint people who don't agree with a system to be in charge of it, that's putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
Okay, don't get your feathers in a rough. There's nothing to get broody about. You can always start from scratch you dumb cluck.
I hope I didn't lay an egg with this post.
I was going to comment, but I bawked.
@@adm0iii come on out of your shell. 🐣
This comment is pretty foul
YOU GOTTA LOVE The History Guy! We've enjoyed quite a few episodes, but THIS one was the best yet! BRAVISSIMO!
I really cried a little for that conclusion and the T-Rex. Thank you for your amazing content!
Can you imagine what a T Rex farm would look like at feeding time!
Charlie 😂😳
Chow time at Paris Island?
I don't know.. What do you think they would feed us? Chicken?
See: "Jurassic Park"
Come to Florida and look at a gator farm
Late in the evening, barely awake, snoozing to the History Guy despite his measured gat. Eyes pop open when hearing the news that the Tyrannosaurus rex dispute his great, must have tasted like chicken...........what a horrid fate. We have got to love this most wonderful man, a grand master of his trade.
I remember my Grandfather telling me that he, my grandmother, and their one son all used to like chicken legs for Sunday dinner, so after years of selected breeding, he was able to breed a 3-legged chicken. I asked him how it tasted and he told me that since it had 3 legs, it ran so fast that he could never catch it.
Oldy but a goody. Thanks
If it had three legs it wouldn't be able to run, indeed it may have trouble walking.
Ronald Reagan told that ole joke.
Absolutely Amazing!! Now my wife and daughter watch and they love it as much if not more then I do. Keep up the good work. Much love from Baltimore!!
I love this one! My favorite so far. I've been enjoying your channel a lot lately and this one entertained me so much! Thank you!
That last line gave me a chuckle.
Then you are a Chucklehead.
History Guy: Suggesting Tyrannosaurus Rex... tasted like chicken.
Me: *deep hearty laugh*
Oh man, I needed that. Perfect ending. Thank you. :)
TM2DB I knew this comment had to be here so I didn’t need to post. Perfect ending.
i have a few chickens as pets. I have truely enjoyed this presentation. i do whatch a lot of your history segments. they are apreciated and NEEDED! tHANK yOU.