Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Page 41

I try to involve my kids in cooking when I ever can. My kids LOVE to cook fresh eggs. I on the other hand do have a certain ick factor on freshly laid eggs. I need them to be cooled before I will eat them. Yeah I am working on this but hey at least I eat my own fresh eggs even if they have been in the fridge for a few minutes.

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Originally Posted by dolly85 

"Is that green egg moldy?"   LMAO!!!!!

I used to deliver eggs to my neighbors (they are so nice, love them to death) and once they passed their eggs on to a friend.  This is what their friend told them, I'll call her Betty and my neighbor Jo Ann

Betty: "Well, there were a lot of blue and green eggs (love those EEs!)...."

Jo Ann: "Yeah, Isn't that cool! Some are bright blue and they are all different shades"

Betty: "Oh, I threw those away.  I wasn't sure about the brown ones so I thought I'd ask you"

Jo Ann: "But the blue ones are the best!"

Betty: I thought that those were rotten"

Jeez, this thread has some more funny stories plus about my Naked Necks Charlie and Dan, who got some very unappreciated ridicule.http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/688950/some-people#post_9333902

Anybody, seen the movie Willard?  I'm teaching my chickens to *evil voice*"Tear it, Tear it".  Maybe it will come in handy against some people!

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Originally Posted by RedDrgn 

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

Love it! I was just at a friends birthday party and me and the birthday girl were trying to convince them that, yes of the younger BOs only the roo had a big red comb, but all the adults DID have combs, but the roo would look a lot different from them when he grows up.

Anybody read Joel Salatin's book, "Folks, this ain't nomal"? Puts a whole new light on who's REALLY weird and who's normal.

http://www.amazon.com/Folks-This-Aint-Normal-Healthier/dp/0892968192/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342373237&sr=1-1&keywords=folks+this+aint+normal+by+joel+salatin

Originally Posted by RedDrgn

 

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

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Gotta love it; doesn't know what those "red things" are called, but makes the proclamation with much authority!! 

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Originally Posted by alyscr1913 

 

Even something as basic to survival as cooking is becoming a lost art in favor of processed, take-out, and other ready made meals. When I hear people proudly proclaim "I don't cook", I'm appalled. A friend, 40ish, and stay at home mom of 2 asked me how I made "such fluffy" mashed potatoes. I decribed the process with the secret being using a ricer instead of mashing the potatoes. She later called to tell me hers came out like soup. Turns out I hadn't told her to drain the boiled potatoes and she was so inexperienced in the kitchen that she couldn't figure that part out for herself. I dispair for our youth ... who's going to teach our young people to appeciate healthy, sustainably grown, great tasting, homemade food? Will tomorrow's adults fondly remember their mothers "nuking" a mean pizza?

 

Maybe your 4-H Club can create a project to get basic living skills into some of your local schools, church groups, or kids' organizations, such as having chickens on campus. I'm trying to start a chicken raising project for our school's special education kids, who will then teach the other students the benefits of raising backyard chickens natually and sustainably, and either selling the eggs at school or using them in the cafeteria. Win-win for everyone. How about the benefits of buying locally grown food or getting chemicals and other toxins out of our food? Can your 4-H Club do something like that? It's worth looking into and I think you'd be a good person to spread the word.

This is actually a wonderful idea! I've heard of schools that have school gardens and micro-farms, and it would be wonderful if I could 'plant the seed' to get a program like that started in my school district! We really need to start recruiting for 4-H at the elementary schools and middle schools, so that kids can learn skills such as cooking, sewing, and animal husbandry.

I'm happy to say that one of the most popular projects in our county 4-H is the cooking projects. Its right up there next to the horse projects! (We have one livestock barn, and 8 horse barns on the fairgrounds...) The Creative Baking auction is one of the biggest draws at the beginning of fair week, and I must say, 4-H'ers make great cooks.

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Originally Posted by AleCat22 

Both my husband and I are Vegans but we  have always been very vocal when it comes to raising our own food. My husband said he'd eat our chickens eggs because he knows where they come from and that they are happy, healthy, well taken care of. And if I ever had enough room to rise chickens for meat that he would eat those as well. (I became vegan for him so these where all my ideas in the first place) But many friends ask us how we would be willing to eat those eggs but not store bought ones. Also that it's terribly cruel for me to raise something I would just kill....  Crazy people! I try and try to explain to them but than they tell me I'm just being a hypocrite.
 

I know! My friend was a vegitarian and I told her she should eat the beef at a party.

Friend: Yeah, but I can't.

Me: But Carli, this bull was a Red Angus from our own ranch.  His name was Wart because he had a big wart on his back.  We held him back and kept him in the corral until he was big enough to slaughter.  He did not go to a feed lot.  He was butchered locally.  We all knew him and trust me, Wart burger is the best meat you have ever tasted, truly.

Friend: But still....

Me:  I do respect what you are saying, but, I want you to know that we have followed this animal from birth to death, and that he had a wonderful life.

Next day, we go to McDonalds and she orders a Big Mac.

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Originally Posted by Appylover 

I try to involve my kids in cooking when I ever can. My kids LOVE to cook fresh eggs. I on the other hand do have a certain ick factor on freshly laid eggs. I need them to be cooled before I will eat them. Yeah I am working on this but hey at least I eat my own fresh eggs even if they have been in the fridge for a few minutes.

That's okay.  I always cool my eggs, but I will say: If you are making cookies or from-scratch brownies, use eggs that have been brought back to room temp.  For some reason they work a lot better.

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Originally Posted by Chic_girl 

This is actually a wonderful idea! I've heard of schools that have school gardens and micro-farms, and it would be wonderful if I could 'plant the seed' to get a program like that started in my school district! We really need to start recruiting for 4-H at the elementary schools and middle schools, so that kids can learn skills such as cooking, sewing, and animal husbandry.

 

I'm happy to say that one of the most popular projects in our county 4-H is the cooking projects. Its right up there next to the horse projects! (We have one livestock barn, and 8 horse barns on the fairgrounds...) The Creative Baking auction is one of the biggest draws at the beginning of fair week, and I must say, 4-H'ers make great cooks.

Good for you! If you want to learn more about growing/buying healthy food responsibly, read anything by Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farm in VA. He's written a ton on the topic and is an absolute genius when it comes to this kind of farming. He also does speaking engagements:

http://www.polyfacefarms.com/

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_8_4?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=salatin&sprefix=sala%2Cstripbooks%2C197

I think that is should be required in any science class (not just FFA or 4h) to have at least one lesson on farm animals, chickens, pigs, cows ect. and where food comes from. Its just plain silly that so many people are so ignorant about something they use everday! I heard something said along the lines of "Sure farmers are great and all but its just so much easier to go to the grocery store and buy food". Oh I'm sorry I must have forgotten about the "food fairy" who magically puts food into the grocery stores every nite while we're sleeping....Some things people don't know about are understandable but others are just plain ridiculous.