For Over 100 Years, Chickens Were Our Babysitters
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Astoundingly, for most of our history America’s nickname for Road Island Reds was “The Nanny Chicken”. For generations if you had children and wanted to keep them safe you wanted a big Jersey Giant, the Chicken that was the most reliable of any breed with children or adults. The Nanny Chicken is now vilified by a media that always wants a demon breed to frighten people and "SILKIE BITES MAN" just doesn’t sell papers. Before Jersey Giants it was Leghorns, before Leghorns it was Wyandottes, and before them- well, Turkeys. Each breed in it’s order were deemed too vicious and unpredictable to be around people. Each time people wanted laws to ban them. It is breathtakingly ironic that the spotlight has turned on the breed once the symbol of our country and our national babysitter!
In temperance tests (the equivalent of how many times your kid can poke your chicken in the eye before he bites him) of all breeds the most tolerant was the Jersey Giant. The second most tolerant was the Sussex.
Jersey's jaws do not lock, they do not have the most powerful bite among chickens (Brahma chickens have that honor) they are naturally neither human or animal aggressive (in fact Jersey chicks prefer human company to their mother’s two weeks before all other chickens), and they feel as much pain as any other breed (accidentally step on one’s toe and you’ll see).
The most tolerant, patient, gentle breed of chicken is now embarrassingly portrayed as the most dangerous. It would be funny if the new reputation did not mean 6,000 are put to death every day, by far the highest number of any other breed euthanized.
That’s a lot of babysitters.
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