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post #21 of 3271
5/3/12 at 9:11am
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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


I sure they would think the same of milk and any other fresh farm product all while eating a hotdog.sickbyc.gif

"The difference between being involved and being committed is the same as the difference between eggs and bacon. The chicken is involved. But the pig is committed"  Anonymous

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post #22 of 3271
5/3/12 at 9:15am
My favorite stupid thing is:

Why don't I bleach my brown eggs so that they are white like the ones in the store.

As Bill Engvall would say, Here's your sign.

Jo-Ann
 

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post #23 of 3271
5/3/12 at 9:19am
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Originally Posted by jomoncon View Post

My favorite stupid thing is:
Why don't I bleach my brown eggs so that they are white like the ones in the store.
As Bill Engvall would say, Here's your sign.


Exactly!

 

Although here in the Northeast we used to refer to the white eggs as seagull eggs. Browns were the popular ones.

"The difference between being involved and being committed is the same as the difference between eggs and bacon. The chicken is involved. But the pig is committed"  Anonymous

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post #24 of 3271
5/3/12 at 9:22am

"Why would you want to have chickens? How are you ever going to afford to feed them."

 

Than there are those people who think yard raised chickens are more diseased somehow. And that the box raised, no beak variety lay healthier, "safe" eggs. To those people, I would say, go buy your Frankenstein eggs. Stupid sheep.

 

Chicken power!

65 acres, strip mine reclamation from the 1950's. 12 acres of meadow bottom.

1 patient and helpful gf

1 Australian Kelpie

10 Welsummer hens
1 unidentified roo

4 Olde English Game bantams
2 Black Star roos

700 sq ft of vegetable garden

And a whole lot of big plans.......

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65 acres, strip mine reclamation from the 1950's. 12 acres of meadow bottom.

1 patient and helpful gf

1 Australian Kelpie

10 Welsummer hens
1 unidentified roo

4 Olde English Game bantams
2 Black Star roos

700 sq ft of vegetable garden

And a whole lot of big plans.......

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post #25 of 3271
5/3/12 at 9:33am
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Originally Posted by Kittyf View Post

 

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.

 

 

lau.gif  This one had me laughing out loud!

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post #26 of 3271
5/3/12 at 9:36am
We get some folks who supposedly know a lot about poultry say dumb things as well such as:

"store bought eggs are full of hormones." ALL eggs are full of hormones. The ones the hen made herself! If they meant synthetic hormones then it is simply not true. The use of synthetic hormones has been banned in poultry in the United States for fifty years now.

There are good reasons to prefer local, home grown eggs over store bought. My customers certainly think so. No need to make stuff up that isn't true.
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post #27 of 3271
5/3/12 at 2:43pm

Great thread.

I'm new to chickens but find it funny some of the misconceptions.  I admit, before now, I never knew the truth about fertilized eggs vs non fertilized eggs.  So I really can see how that would be a common thought.  But I have always known how much healthier home raised eggs would be! 

~ Christina ~

4/7/2012 Our adventure begins with 4 chicks: Salmon Faverolle, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Buff Chantecler & Russion Orloff

4/14/2012 Added two more chicks: EE & a White D'uccle

 

Amy-Salmon Faverolle; Blaze-Buff Chantecler; Shadow-Russion Orloff; Crystal-EE; Bibey-White D'uccle

 

RIP Silver 6/16/2012

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~ Christina ~

4/7/2012 Our adventure begins with 4 chicks: Salmon Faverolle, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Buff Chantecler & Russion Orloff

4/14/2012 Added two more chicks: EE & a White D'uccle

 

Amy-Salmon Faverolle; Blaze-Buff Chantecler; Shadow-Russion Orloff; Crystal-EE; Bibey-White D'uccle

 

RIP Silver 6/16/2012

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post #28 of 3271
5/3/12 at 4:21pm

Heh, my MIL was bragging on the big brown eggs I gave her when a coworker asked her who she could eat those 'manure' eggs?!  Poor woman was utterly convinced that the brown color came for eating manure! As we live in a fairly rural area, the others in the breakroom began laughing hysterically.

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post #29 of 3271
5/3/12 at 4:34pm
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Originally Posted by CountryKitty View Post

Heh, my MIL was bragging on the big brown eggs I gave her when a coworker asked her who she could eat those 'manure' eggs?!  Poor woman was utterly convinced that the brown color came for eating manure! As we live in a fairly rural area, the others in the breakroom began laughing hysterically.

You know the thing that cracks me up the most?  You DON'T eat the shell!  LOL  So who cares what color it is! 

~ Christina ~

4/7/2012 Our adventure begins with 4 chicks: Salmon Faverolle, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Buff Chantecler & Russion Orloff

4/14/2012 Added two more chicks: EE & a White D'uccle

 

Amy-Salmon Faverolle; Blaze-Buff Chantecler; Shadow-Russion Orloff; Crystal-EE; Bibey-White D'uccle

 

RIP Silver 6/16/2012

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~ Christina ~

4/7/2012 Our adventure begins with 4 chicks: Salmon Faverolle, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Buff Chantecler & Russion Orloff

4/14/2012 Added two more chicks: EE & a White D'uccle

 

Amy-Salmon Faverolle; Blaze-Buff Chantecler; Shadow-Russion Orloff; Crystal-EE; Bibey-White D'uccle

 

RIP Silver 6/16/2012

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post #30 of 3271
5/3/12 at 4:34pm

Do the green ones have green yolks?

Don't they lay, like, one egg a year?

Looking at big white Leghorn eggs: They must be HUGE chickens, or are those turkey eggs?

Do the green eggs come from green chickens?

These white eggs must come from your white chickens, eh?

LOL!

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