@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.. 🤠
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.
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.
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!
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 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!
My grandfather Donald Turnbull was the executive secretary of the poultry and hatchery federation from 1941- 1977. My grandfather and his oldest brother Roderick Turnbull are both in the agriculture hall of fame
I’ve watched so many of your shows and learnt so much. But this one about chickens was by far my favourite. It’s so clever on the chicken and egg word play information. Thank you. I’ll be telling my family and students to watch this.
....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.
+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 !
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.
That was one of your most enjoyable to me. As a person who loves chickens, both in my diet and in my life, I found it extremely interesting. So many common phrases we never think about too. Thanks, History Guy!
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.
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.
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".
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!
I had to share this show on my Facebook page because so many friends live in the Philippines. One cannot go more than 10 feet without hearing a rooster in that nation. Happy Trails
This was really entertaining. I stumbled across your channel and can’t get enough. Really interesting and educational, but entertaining at the same time
Eating my two eggs I have every morning as I watch this. That's 730 eggs a year! Over 60 dozen eggs a year. That's a lot of eggs. And of course, I love chicken. Southern fried is best. What an EGG-celent video.
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.
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.
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.
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. :-)
Eating scrambled eggs while watching this. This is probably my favorite History Guy video so far. Very informative and I learned where the term "cockpit" came from. Thanks History Guy!
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.
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.
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 RU-vid.
I have a heartwarming chicken story. My grandmother in South Louisiana, Cajun country, kept a chicken house and yard for them when I was a very young child in the 60's. I remember feeding them grain every morning and also still recall her admonition when we went into the house to collect eggs each day to watch out for SNAKES. And once it a while we'd see a 'chicken snake in the chicken house. So eventually one day it happened, I got BIT. I was bored and standing outside the chicken wire fence, the chickens were pecking in the grass right next to the fence. Suddenly I felt the need to relieve myself. So, being a maybe 8 yr old kid in the middle of nowhere I whipped out Mr. Happy and started streaming through the fence. Tell the truth I was trying to hit near the chickens. I can still remember it's cold bloodless eyes as it raised it's head, looked at me, cocked it's head right, then left, then through the wire SUDDENLY, like LIGHTNING, that chicken PECKED me, right on the head of my DIK!!! Ay chihuahua! Pissius Interruptus!! I ran screaming for Grandma and mom. The heII with what happened to John Wayne Bobbit, I have been savagely PECKED! Fortunately skilled surgeons in Lafayette, La. were able to re-attach it. All ended well. We had that chicken (I think it was the same one but they all look the same, y'know?) with gravy and mashed potatoes. Revenge is best served warm and tasty with homemade biscuits. I still continue to get revenge about once a week ever since. But I don't think it's 96 pounds a year like THG says. Remember my cautionary tale as you suck the meat off those bones. Er, the CHICKEN bones.
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!!!
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.
Who knew sooooo many phrases came from a chicken? I knew a few of them, but not ALL of them, so thanks History Guy for sharing this info with the world!! Another GREAT video....I too approve this message John....
