@@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.
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.
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. :-)
Sorry, the "which came first" question has been answered: the egg, laid by something that was almost a chicken and the egg mutated in its laying. It takes the fun out of what was once a wonderful conundrum. Loved the sequence on idioms and metaphors...what a fun slice of history. Great series!
In Jewish liturgy we thank God every morning "Who gave understanding to the rooster to understand the difference between day and night", a reference to a passage in Job.
Everytime I watch your clips, I realize I wouldn't of cut class if the teachers used your method of teaching..... Many thanx to you, you rock! ✌️😎👍 + The thumb = 4 thumbs up.
My beloved house chicken Eggnog was very privileged. She attended museums, art events, and restaurants. She had no IDEA what other chickens do. What struck me most was many people stated they had NEVER SEEN ONE IN PERSON. ???? Hundreds noted that she was very soft and silky, and enjoyed being admired. I started to wonder if they should be taken to the classroom. (They do have chicken diapers and the chickens tolerate them well) For most common bird in the world, it is AMAZING that more people have never experienced one! Groups of Chinese tourists seemed particularly amused; that they had never seen one, they'd never seen one in a stroller on a pillow enjoying music. (She likes guitar, moon drums, and mandolin; some of the more gentle instruments, and will watch transfixed.) There are probably hundreds of pictures somewhere in China of the USA lady pushing a chicken in a stroller....we are SO WEIRD! So very many chicken terms in our language! Thank you!!!
Great video! The joke at the end nailed it! I’ve had chickens since I was three 58 now , but I think you missed my favorite part, they eat bugs grubs and crickets.
Interestingly, Reaumur is better known for his now largely obscure temperature scale, which was initially replaced in 1790 by Celsius, but hung on in certain places in Europe for another century and a half or less
Two more chickeny points of language (from Oz): To feel clucky (wishing for a child or grandchild), and to crow with delight or boastfulness. We had chickens as pets--they're lovely and soft to hold. My little kids loved them. A story I heard in Western Australia: Someone super-fortified their coop against recent fox raids, only to find too late that the fox was hiding in a recess under the raised coop so was locked in with the chickens, leading to disaster!
Just after 7 PM and I was nodding off in my recliner when this came up..I'd been watching Brien Foresters live feed from Baalbek today..When you mentioned no chickens in North America I was thinking they must be Megalithic ..That's why my first reaction was a good laugh to get my brain functioning again
Nice one, but the saying about premature assumption of success usually goes "you don't count your chicken before they hatch", not "...count the eggs...."
it is actually interesting- their poo can be used as fuel, and the average chicken will produce over its lifetime enough to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours. And dried chicken poo is used in a produce designed to remove pollution from water.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered You also didn’t mention that Chicken Soup is basically the world’s curative.....and mighty tasty, too!
Somehow I'd never thought to look up the origin of the term cockpit. But I thought the phrase was "Don't count your *chickens* before they're hatched", not eggs. Meaning not to depend on everything going perfect with no unexpected hiccups, by believing every egg will hatch into a viable healthy chicken. Because you can clearly count the *eggs* before they've hatched.
I really enjoyed your presentation, The birds may have communicated which each other before the human. Talking about chicken I think there are millions of chicken recipes around the world from spicy fried chicken dishes to the perfect roast chicken. Chicken is the first domesticated animal (gallus domesticus). Do you know the color of the egg depends on the color of the "EAR LOBE", if the lobe is red the color of the egg is brown, if it is white the egg is white, "Tuck-tuck-tuck" is the sound chick makes to say I have found food until he ends in the pot and becomes the most sought out carcass for cuisine recipes
I'm assuming you've already done a video on the turkey, but have you considered doing one about the ring-necked pheasant? Thanks for all the quality content!
Chickens are a huge assist to subsistence farming and gardens, as they clear insects and weeds while providing their own….fertilizer. Even now, chicken poop is one of the better fertilizers/compost materials to promote livable crop yields. Add in the egg and meat, and their small size and that they are easy to feed, and their popularity is not surprising.
chickens are so fucking adorable, AND THEY FEED YOU! I hated my brothers chickens, but now especially during CV19 I love them. I've started my own garden and bartering with neighbors. THEY LOOOOVE the chicken eggs, the fresh ones from happy chickens you take care of are amazingly delicious.
Hens have the unique ability to lay unfertilized eggs in abundance. That's their ace in the hole. This chance characteristic guaranteed that they'd be the most abundant birds. Also, I like eggs, so good.
Wonderful film with so many ancient quotes of 'sayings'. Should we not all be fighting to be allowed to have chickens (maybe two or three), in our back yards? Is this not the way forward for healthy eggs, healthy proteins in times of food poverty? Do you think local autourities should lift rules on being allowed to keep a few back yard hens? After all, we were doing it 10.000 years ago!
Five years ago I got 6 hens for eggs......then chicken math took over. Now at any given time, I have atleast 45, usually more. Chickens are a riot. I don't think it's the same as a commercial egg production. I try to keep mine a hoppy that I pretend pays for itself. Chickens are fascinating and some breeds are downright nutty. They are fun critters.
I love raising chickens... my flock is at a low ebb and I'm hoping to get some chicks in the Spring or summer. It is an easy, useful hobby and get for retirement.
Cockfighting predates written history. Any culture that lived somewhere with jungle fowl would have been fighting them. But no it did not just start in the Philippines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Look into the history of "the poor man's chicken". Pigeons were brought to America by settlers who could not afford the expensive chicken. The history of pigeon cultivation and breeding is interesting.
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.
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!!??
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.
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.
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
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.. 🤠
....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.
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!
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.... 🤔 👃✌️🇨🇦
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.
Is it originally an English saying? What I heard growing up in the '50s rural South was, ' Don't count your chicks.before they hatched'. Our community was mostly composed of descendants of Cherokees who'd escaped the U.S. military roundup of Cherokees who were force-marched to Indian Territory in 1838. Our ancestors were from what is now Cherokee County, N.C. Some ancestors also had English ancestry, via immigrants from England who arrived in the Va. Colony by 1650 but fled the colony to live with the Cherokees soon after arriving. So most people in our southern Ark. community (called Cooterneck, 'cooter' being Cherokee for 'turtle') were of English as well as Cherokee ancestry before the 20th c. But I suspect the saying as we learned it was not English in particular. The History Guy quoted the saying as 'Don't count your eggs before they're hatched', which doesn't make sense if you think about it. If you have 10 eggs, you'd still have 10 eggs regardless of how many later hatched. But if you had 10 eggs & were counting on having 10 hatch into chicks, you might well be disappointed. Thus it makes sense to say 'don't count your chicks/chickens before they've hatched.' It doesn't make sense to say you can't count on having ten eggs if all of them don't hatch. Somebody got the saying wrong, somebody writing the script or somebody writing out the prompts, or maybe even the History Guy. He's very good but everybody makes mistakes. Maybe his family had gotten the saying wrong, taught it to him. Who knows, but probably someone made a slight mistake in filming the program & no one noticed.
@@janegarner9169 You learned it exactly like I learned it, and it makes much more sense that way. Counting your eggs before they're hatched is easy - that's what the supermarket does. Counting your chickens before they're hatched would be pure folly because you will never know for sure how many chickens you'll get out of a given number of eggs. Some may not be fertilized, some may not receive the proper incubating care, etc. I think somebody either wrote it down wrong or mangled it like so many old sayings are now mangled (don't look a gift horse in the eyes, etc.)
@@hughaskew6550 Ain't it don't look a gift horse in the mouth? Because a free horse could have floating teeth or other medical problems and may need to be put down but hey. It's a free horse. Work it till you can't
@@buckberthod5007 I'd have to disagree.In the expression "don't look a gift horse in the mouth", you are being admonished to accept a gift at face value, without performing the tests that one would perform when buying something himself, so as not to give offense to the giver. "Don't count your eggs before they are hatched" would be appropriate only when talking with someone who is reality challenged. In the best case, you will have no more chickens than you have eggs. In the intended meaning, you know how many eggs you have but will have no idea how many chickens nor their quality (hence your horse allusion) that you will eventually have. The eggs expression is appropriate but mangled.
+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 !
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.
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.
This was eggs-traordinary information, especially for those of us that keep and love our chickies!!! I would use more chicken puns but you might cry fowl. 😁
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.
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
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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.
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.!
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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.
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.
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. :-)
Yes. This is the content I subscribed for!
That last line gave me a chuckle.
Then you are a Chucklehead.
You sir, are a treasure. This may be the best UA-cam channel ever! Keep them coming!
Loved this one. My father raised chickens and it was so cool to learn how noble a bird they are.
Your channel is truly something to crow about! Thank you for taking the time to give us interesting history that deserves to be remembered!
Sorry, the "which came first" question has been answered: the egg, laid by something that was almost a chicken and the egg mutated in its laying. It takes the fun out of what was once a wonderful conundrum. Loved the sequence on idioms and metaphors...what a fun slice of history. Great series!
Another truly brilliant and superbly amusing episode...Thanks
Those are ducks in the window. 🦆. LOL
In Jewish liturgy we thank God every morning "Who gave understanding to the rooster to understand the difference between day and night", a reference to a passage in Job.
Everytime I watch your clips, I realize I wouldn't of cut class if the teachers used your method of teaching.....
Many thanx to you, you rock!
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The last kid to finish an impromptu contest, game or dare is "A Rotten Egg"
Wow. Wow. Wow. Very interesting to see how influential chickens are to humans! Very cool report!
The unending list of idioms about chickens is amazing.
My beloved house chicken Eggnog was very privileged. She attended museums, art events, and restaurants. She had no IDEA what other chickens do. What struck me most was many people stated they had NEVER SEEN ONE IN PERSON. ???? Hundreds noted that she was very soft and silky, and enjoyed being admired. I started to wonder if they should be taken to the classroom. (They do have chicken diapers and the chickens tolerate them well) For most common bird in the world, it is AMAZING that more people have never experienced one! Groups of Chinese tourists seemed particularly amused; that they had never seen one, they'd never seen one in a stroller on a pillow enjoying music. (She likes guitar, moon drums, and mandolin; some of the more gentle instruments, and will watch transfixed.) There are probably hundreds of pictures somewhere in China of the USA lady pushing a chicken in a stroller....we are SO WEIRD! So very many chicken terms in our language! Thank you!!!
Great video! The joke at the end nailed it! I’ve had chickens since I was three 58 now , but I think you missed my favorite part, they eat bugs grubs and crickets.
Excellent video as usual! However I have to correct you on one point. Chicken tastes like T-rex, not the other way around.
Interestingly, Reaumur is better known for his now largely obscure temperature scale, which was initially replaced in 1790 by Celsius, but hung on in certain places in Europe for another century and a half or less
The Chicken related idioms were AMAZING!!
Two more chickeny points of language (from Oz): To feel clucky (wishing for a child or grandchild), and to crow with delight or boastfulness.
We had chickens as pets--they're lovely and soft to hold. My little kids loved them.
A story I heard in Western Australia: Someone super-fortified their coop against recent fox raids, only to find too late that the fox was hiding in a recess under the raised coop so was locked in with the chickens, leading to disaster!
Just after 7 PM and I was nodding off in my recliner when this came up..I'd been watching Brien Foresters live feed from Baalbek today..When you mentioned no chickens in North America I was thinking they must be Megalithic ..That's why my first reaction was a good laugh to get my brain functioning again
I really cried a little for that conclusion and the T-Rex. Thank you for your amazing content!
"Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the Possum,,, it CAN,, be done." Quote Naomi Judd ! Especially in the South !
Nice one, but the saying about premature assumption of success usually goes "you don't count your chicken before they hatch", not "...count the eggs...."
Sitting on Maui listening to the roosters crow and watching this made my weekend.
Mahalo, History Guy, and Aloha!
Come visit the Valley Isle!
Thank you. This man knows more about chicken than any two people I know
I believe it is counting your chickens before they are hatched.
Given your previous episode on white gold I am surprised you neglected to mention the fertilizer they provide.
it is actually interesting- their poo can be used as fuel, and the average chicken will produce over its lifetime enough to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours. And dried chicken poo is used in a produce designed to remove pollution from water.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered You also didn’t mention that Chicken Soup is basically the world’s curative.....and mighty tasty, too!
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered P.S.-“The rooster crows, but the hen delivers the goods.”
What white gold episode is that?
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You are incredible. Thank you for your well-researched, detailed, comprehensive, superbly narrated, and always interesting videos.
*I'm at awe 63 years on this earth I've must have used those same idioms many times, thanks professor!* 🐔
Somehow I'd never thought to look up the origin of the term cockpit.
But I thought the phrase was "Don't count your *chickens* before they're hatched", not eggs. Meaning not to depend on everything going perfect with no unexpected hiccups, by believing every egg will hatch into a viable healthy chicken. Because you can clearly count the *eggs* before they've hatched.
I really enjoyed your presentation, The birds may have communicated which each other before the human. Talking about chicken I think there are millions of chicken recipes around the world from spicy fried chicken dishes to the perfect roast chicken. Chicken is the first domesticated animal (gallus domesticus). Do you know the color of the egg depends on the color of the "EAR LOBE", if the lobe is red the color of the egg is brown, if it is white the egg is white, "Tuck-tuck-tuck" is the sound chick makes to say I have found food until he ends in the pot and becomes the most sought out carcass for cuisine recipes
I always thought chicken tastes like T. Rex ---
I'm assuming you've already done a video on the turkey, but have you considered doing one about the ring-necked pheasant?
Thanks for all the quality content!
Chickens are a huge assist to subsistence farming and gardens, as they clear insects and weeds while providing their own….fertilizer. Even now, chicken poop is one of the better fertilizers/compost materials to promote livable crop yields. Add in the egg and meat, and their small size and that they are easy to feed, and their popularity is not surprising.
Excellent!!! Who would know so much information about the chicken!
He saw Colonel Sanders coming up the road. Popeye on one side. Then he saw me with a skillet. What have I got to lose. Barnyard buzzards.
…and I dream of a world where T Rex nuggets can feed a family of ten
chickens are so fucking adorable, AND THEY FEED YOU!
I hated my brothers chickens, but now especially during CV19 I love them.
I've started my own garden and bartering with neighbors.
THEY LOOOOVE the chicken eggs, the fresh ones from happy chickens you take care of are amazingly delicious.
I don’t have any right now but I’ve had egg hens and meat birds in the past. Fantastic pets and food.
LOVED this one!
Hens have the unique ability to lay unfertilized eggs in abundance. That's their ace in the hole. This chance characteristic guaranteed that they'd be the most abundant birds. Also, I like eggs, so good.
Wonderful film with so many ancient quotes of 'sayings'. Should we not all be fighting to be allowed to have chickens (maybe two or three), in our back yards? Is this not the way forward for healthy eggs, healthy proteins in times of food poverty? Do you think local autourities should lift rules on being allowed to keep a few back yard hens? After all, we were doing it 10.000 years ago!
Five years ago I got 6 hens for eggs......then chicken math took over. Now at any given time, I have atleast 45, usually more. Chickens are a riot. I don't think it's the same as a commercial egg production. I try to keep mine a hoppy that I pretend pays for itself. Chickens are fascinating and some breeds are downright nutty. They are fun critters.
Quite an impressive amount of information!
I love raising chickens... my flock is at a low ebb and I'm hoping to get some chicks in the Spring or summer. It is an easy, useful hobby and get for retirement.
They spread from Philippines to the world through sail and trade. The cockfights also still happen in Philippines.
Cockfighting predates written history. Any culture that lived somewhere with jungle fowl would have been fighting them. But no it did not just start in the Philippines.
Ain' nobody here but us chikinz.
I didn't truly realize just how many chicken-related figures of speech there are!!!
It is tragic that we have abandoned the goose. My dream is to get a retirement homestead and do my part to rectify this error. 😊
Not forgotten history. This is all well known.
Why did the chicken hawk land in the middle of the road? Because the chicken it was chasing hadn't got all the way across!
That was a good one, surely T. rex would be tough, like an old hen.
You laid that one out pretty good!
..." 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.
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.
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
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'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 !
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
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
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
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.
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.
Look into the history of "the poor man's chicken". Pigeons were brought to America by settlers who could not afford the expensive chicken. The history of pigeon cultivation and breeding is interesting.
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.
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!!??
ua-cam.com/video/b8BPANZzsyU/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/cDwsnpo066g/v-deo.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
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
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 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
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.
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.. 🤠
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.
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 !
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!
....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.
This is the best history channel on UA-cam if not the best channel on UA-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!
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.
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.
This felt like part Paul Harvey/Part Andy Rooney. lol. nice job.
No it felt like The History Guy 🙄
Lol current Dinosaur population of the Earth...200+ Billion 😎
Why does this always happen to my comments? :-(
This is a egg-zellent video i must say.......
Sorry i will leave
those bad puns require your immediate egg-ist
@perfect stranger my bad I will now "egg-it" stage right. >_
Yeah you should probably fly the coop after that one.
@@snappy452 yep! it only takes one lowly "s" to fowl one up. >_
Nah it was good. Don't let it hurt your eggo.
I've always heard it as "counting your chickens before they hatch."
Me too ... but we're probably both Brits .. all pretty much means the same thing, though .. Or not (as I 'chicken out')
Is it originally an English saying? What I heard growing up in the '50s rural South was, ' Don't count your chicks.before they hatched'. Our community was mostly composed of descendants of Cherokees who'd escaped the U.S. military roundup of Cherokees who were force-marched to Indian Territory in 1838. Our ancestors were from what is now Cherokee County, N.C. Some ancestors also had English ancestry, via immigrants from England who arrived in the Va. Colony by 1650 but fled the colony to live with the Cherokees soon after arriving. So most people in our southern Ark. community (called Cooterneck, 'cooter' being Cherokee for 'turtle') were of English as well as Cherokee ancestry before the 20th c.
But I suspect the saying as we learned it was not English in particular. The History Guy quoted the saying as 'Don't count your eggs before they're hatched', which doesn't make sense if you think about it. If you have 10 eggs, you'd still have 10 eggs regardless of how many later hatched. But if you had 10 eggs & were counting on having 10 hatch into chicks, you might well be disappointed. Thus it makes sense to say 'don't count your chicks/chickens before they've hatched.' It doesn't make sense to say you can't count on having ten eggs if all of them don't hatch.
Somebody got the saying wrong, somebody writing the script or somebody writing out the prompts, or maybe even the History Guy. He's very good but everybody makes mistakes. Maybe his family had gotten the saying wrong, taught it to him. Who knows, but probably someone made a slight mistake in filming the program & no one noticed.
@@janegarner9169 You learned it exactly like I learned it, and it makes much more sense that way. Counting your eggs before they're hatched is easy - that's what the supermarket does. Counting your chickens before they're hatched would be pure folly because you will never know for sure how many chickens you'll get out of a given number of eggs. Some may not be fertilized, some may not receive the proper incubating care, etc. I think somebody either wrote it down wrong or mangled it like so many old sayings are now mangled (don't look a gift horse in the eyes, etc.)
@@hughaskew6550 Ain't it don't look a gift horse in the mouth? Because a free horse could have floating teeth or other medical problems and may need to be put down but hey. It's a free horse. Work it till you can't
@@buckberthod5007 I'd have to disagree.In the expression "don't look a gift horse in the mouth", you are being admonished to accept a gift at face value, without performing the tests that one would perform when buying something himself, so as not to give offense to the giver. "Don't count your eggs before they are hatched" would be appropriate only when talking with someone who is reality challenged. In the best case, you will have no more chickens than you have eggs. In the intended meaning, you know how many eggs you have but will have no idea how many chickens nor their quality (hence your horse allusion) that you will eventually have. The eggs expression is appropriate but mangled.
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 !
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
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.
This was eggs-traordinary information, especially for those of us that keep and love our chickies!!! I would use more chicken puns but you might cry fowl. 😁
😂😂😂😂How cute...
Haha, funny
You beaked me to it!
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!
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
When a comic tells a joke that bombs it is said “He laid an egg”.
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-seeker934 Unless you raise them yourself
@@christianfreedom-seeker934 yup poor animals of food industrie 😢
except for the chicken
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
"I say, I say."
William Hunter “That’s a joke, son!”
Listen to me when I'm talkin' at ya'...(aside) He's a nice boy but about as sharp as a sack of wet leather.
"That boy... I say that boy is about as sharp as a bowlin' ball" - Foghorn Leghorn.
This bird, is in fact, the word.
Nice!!!
Hahaha. Clever. (b b b b bird)
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