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by: occam - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 08:46 UTC

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by: Hibou - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 08:53 UTC

Le 09/04/2024 à 09:46, occam a écrit :
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> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>
> Why the egg-ception?

It does appear odd to anyone who's not a lay-man. I think the answer is
that hens need no help.

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by: Steve Hayes - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:52 UTC

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:

>The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>
>Why the egg-ception?

But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.

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by: Peter Moylan - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 11:16 UTC

On 09/04/24 20:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>
>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding',
>> yet we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a
>> sheep.
>>
>> Why the egg-ception?
>
> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.

True; but we don't pluck an egg out of a chicken, which is what I assume
occam means by "egg a chicken".

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by: Janet - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 15:05 UTC

In article <vd7a1j9gaao9ogg6s1vf0ruf5gm27ph9qe@4ax.com>,
hayesstw@telkomsa.net says...
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>
> >The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
> >we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
> >
> >Why the egg-ception?
>
> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.

I can lamb a ewe, but I can't lay an egg.

Janet.

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by: Sam Plusnet - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 19:19 UTC

On 09-Apr-24 11:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>
>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>>
>> Why the egg-ception?
>
> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.

We can also share a sheep. I couldn't eat a whole one.

To egg a chicken suggests acting as a midwife, and they seem to not need
this type of assistance.

--
Sam Plusnet

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by: Athel Cornish-Bowden - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 19:22 UTC

On 2024-04-09 19:19:25 +0000, Sam Plusnet said:

> On 09-Apr-24 11:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>>
>>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>>> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>>>
>>> Why the egg-ception?
>>
>> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.
>
> We can also share a sheep. I couldn't eat a whole one.
>
> To egg a chicken suggests acting as a midwife, and they seem to not
> need this type of assistance.

Most of the time no, but there is a condition called egg binding.

--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
in England until 1987.

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by: Snidely - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 21:10 UTC

Tuesday, Sam Plusnet murmurred ...
> On 09-Apr-24 11:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>>
>>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>>> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>>>
>>> Why the egg-ception?
>>
>> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.
>
> We can also share a sheep. I couldn't eat a whole one.
>
> To egg a chicken suggests acting as a midwife, and they seem to not need this
> type of assistance.

Well, there's removing eggs from the nest to stop the brooding (until
there's another egg ready).

A friend has been adopted by a duck. The friend lives in coyote
territory (not unusual in SoCal, but this is in an area of larger lots
and somewhere between suburban and semi-rural). Ducklings don't last
long, and those that do are hard to adopt out. Hence egg removal.

/dps

--
As a colleague once told me about an incoming manager,
"He does very well in a suck-up, kick-down culture."
Bill in Vancouver

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by: occam - Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:45 UTC

On 09/04/2024 21:22, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> On 2024-04-09 19:19:25 +0000, Sam Plusnet said:
>
>> On 09-Apr-24 11:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>>>> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>>>>
>>>> Why the egg-ception?
>>>
>>> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.
>>
>> We can also share a sheep. I couldn't eat a whole one.
>>
>> To egg a chicken suggests acting as a midwife, and they seem to not
>> need this type of assistance.
>
> Most of the time no, but there is a condition called egg binding.
>

I also found out recently that there is a practice (a process) called
egg sexing. It's the predictive process of determining whether the sex
of the egg is male or female. (Females are kept, male eggs are recycled.)

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by: Steve Hayes - Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:27 UTC

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 20:19:25 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

>On 09-Apr-24 11:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>>
>>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>>> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>>>
>>> Why the egg-ception?
>>
>> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.
>
>We can also share a sheep. I couldn't eat a whole one.
>
>To egg a chicken suggests acting as a midwife, and they seem to not need
>this type of assistance.

But one could egg a chicken on.

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
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by: Sam Plusnet - Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:22 UTC

On 11-Apr-24 6:27, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 20:19:25 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09-Apr-24 11:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>>>> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>>>>
>>>> Why the egg-ception?
>>>
>>> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.
>>
>> We can also share a sheep. I couldn't eat a whole one.
>>
>> To egg a chicken suggests acting as a midwife, and they seem to not need
>> this type of assistance.
>
> But one could egg a chicken on.

Eggsactly.
But does the act of providing moral support to a broody chicken need its
own verb?

--
Sam Plusnet

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Subject: Re: To egg a chicken
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by: lar3ryca - Sat, 13 Apr 2024 05:51 UTC

On 2024-04-09 13:19, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 09-Apr-24 11:52, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:46:36 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>>
>>> The verb 'to egg' exists. We 'egg on' someone, we 'egg a pudding', yet
>>> we don't egg a chicken, in the way we milk a cow or shear a sheep.
>>>
>>> Why the egg-ception?
>>
>> But we do pluck a chicken as we shear a sheep.
>
> We can also share a sheep. I couldn't eat a whole one.
>
> To egg a chicken suggests acting as a midwife, and they seem to not need
> this type of assistance.

On hearinng 'egg a chicken', m first thought is that it translates to
'throw eggs at a chicken', as in what you do when you 'egg a house'.

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Subject	Author
To egg a chicken	occam
Re: To egg a chicken	Hibou
Re: To egg a chicken	Steve Hayes
Re: To egg a chicken	Peter Moylan
Re: To egg a chicken	Janet
Re: To egg a chicken	Sam Plusnet
Re: To egg a chicken	Athel Cornish-Bowden
Re: To egg a chicken	occam
Re: To egg a chicken	Snidely
Re: To egg a chicken	Steve Hayes
Re: To egg a chicken	Sam Plusnet
Re: To egg a chicken	lar3ryca