Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Page 2

I was talking to my friends mom about how I'm going to get chickens and eat their eggs, and when I asked her if she would want some, she said:
"Eww, aren't their eggs dirty and covered in blood spots? I heard that farm raised chickens have blood spots on their eggs. I don't care if they are healthier, I'll buy the clean ones from the store."
Unbelievable. People would take a hormone enhanced, chemical filled, 5 month old store egg, over a healthy, natural, egg, just because of a little bit of poop and the occasional blood spot. I don't understand people these days.

 

I love that.  People are just so stupid it's unbelievable. I remember growing up when my cousins came to visit and it was time to butcher the cattle we had raised. Poor thing had no idea...I guess she thought ground beef just came out of the supermarket. 

I won't cast stones here, since I can recall a few assumptions of mine that were just plain wrong.  Not as extreme as some of those summarized so far, but wrong nonetheless.  Mostly, I'm thinking about the old "you need a rooster to get eggs."

 

I don't spend energy trying to convince people that they are incorrect.  If they try to convince *me* that I am incorrect, then they are welcome to do so until I walk away.  More often than not, I walk away with a smile.

Ok, the people who think the eggs from the store are "clean" should see pictures of the dirty, crowded, disgusting conditions where those poor factory farm hens live.

Awesome thread topic!

 

Actually, I had experience with the same topic that you opened the thread with.  I got into an argument with three of my co-workers (all of whom I had already shared eggs with at the time) over where the eggs came out of a chicken.  One of them sided with me fairly quickly, but the other two were adamant that they had an vent for doing their business out of and one for popping out eggs.  I threatened to take a picture of one of my chicken's butts to prove it and then they googled it and shushed up.  All of them still get eggs from me when I have spares, but one of them swears that if she hadn't been eating eggs for years that she just couldn't do it now that she knows that.  She did say that she'd rather eat them from my chicken's butts rather than the butt of a chicken she doesn't know.

 

Other stupid things I've heard...

 

"You can't eat the eggs if you have a rooster because they have chicks in them!"

"Chickens are one of the dirtiest animals."

"Chickens are vegetarians."

"Store eggs are cleaner and better for you."

"Chickens only lay white or brown eggs, and the color depends on what they're fed."

"Only roosters have the red things on their face and heads."

I keep getting: "Do they taste different?" with blue eggs. Occasionally, the person will pull a face and put a "ewww" in there somewhere lol

 

Also had:

 

"How do you know it's a hen?" "Well, she lays eggs."

 

When I was hatching our first 4 eggs: "We're hoping to get at least 2 hens."   "What's wrong with cockerels?"   "They don't lay eggs."  <-- That was a major facepalm moment for the poor lady LOL

Oh lord people are so silly. At school I always bring eggs and people are amazied by how cool they look and how they actually taste like something! I recently started to kill some roosters to eat them and we also have 2 cows we are raising for slaughter. People are like how, "can you eat that poor animal! you even gave it a name?! How cruel!". At least I know my animals lived a happy life before they were eaten rather than caged and sent down the conveyer belt. I am happy that I have convinced some people to my ideas rather than the silly ideas they have about chickens and farm food.
 

You just have to name them correctly. For instance, my two pigs were named Bacon and Sausage. My turkeys were Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't really name my chickens, other than a few of them, but I have a friend who names hers things like Original and Extra Crispy.

I am always surprised by peoples' superstitions.

My one neighbor loves getting her 1/2 dozen each week - she enjoys the eggs my girls lay, but says her father believes they will cure disease. Now, while a healthy diet including wholesome natural foods can help maintain your health, my hens are not doctors or nor do they work miracles other than laying eggs, which I think is a miracle.

The other neighbor thinks my eggs are a big "Eeewww!" because some of them are brown and they do not come out of the hen in a refrigerated state. If she knew how warm a new laid egg is, she'd retch.

 

And I actually heard someone in the feed store ask if free range chickens would mate with the wild birds (hawks, sparrows, finches...finches???) and produce weird eggs.

 

Chickens are so much fun, and so are people!

 

Kate

While I have had mostly positive reactions from people, can only add this to the topic. A long time ago, within the last 15 years or so I heard this statement. As I am not sure where or by whom but it resonates in mind still today and found it 100% correct. The statement goes something like this; "People will often criticize what they don't understand". At the time I heard it I never really gave it much thought. Then I was at a function and someone was pontificating about something in a critical manor but the more I listened the more I knew he knew nothing about what he was talking about. He was truly uninformed and believed what he knew(which was not much about the subject)and there was no changing him.