Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Page 79

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Originally Posted by In the Wild 

So......I put the gate up. Now she now says that because she is 'disabled' she can force the owner of said property to comply in installing an automatic gate so that she can have access. This is PRIVATE property. Is she insane??????

Just wondering, are you the owner or a tenant or someone random? Just wondering why you used the third person!

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Originally Posted by jchny2000 

OH my... tell her she is a stalker.

You are afraid for your life hehehe!

lol, that whole situation is just ridiculous... and boy do i understand!  the people on my hill have this same sense of entitlement that is so convoluted it blows my mind!

i've been here a dozen years, yet, i'm still an outsider to the one family that lives up here all year round.  she's SO nosy and he is always looking for the next person to sue...  and the citiots that own the properties on either side of me just tromp on thru my land because it's a much easier access to the state land paths.  i have "posted" signs all around, but of course, they don't apply to "them" (?!?!?!?!?!?!)

my advice is to be direct.  remind her that this is your home.  you would prefer that your relationship with neighbors be pleasant, but, you won't tolerate nonsense on your private property.  it's fine if she takes offense, then you don't even have to wave from a distance... then watch... she'll try to make friends with you again in a year, and she won't (or shouldn't be) so pesty.

Too funny The question I always get is," How will they survive in the winter"?  Then I say," How is it that little chickadees survive our harsh SD winters with little feathers and the hens with plenty of feathers living in a off the ground coop with other hens and straw" but they still look at me as if Im from another planet.

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Originally Posted by PrairieChickens 

We were showing off our mixed flock of Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and Red and Black Sexlinks, and our friend asked, "Why don't you have any normal colored chickens?"

 

I had no idea what she meant by "normal" colors of chickens... She was apparently expecting white chickens, which I'd only ever seen in movies and on TV.  To me, normal is a Rhode Island red! lol

I always say, "Define _________."  In this case, it would be "Define normal." For some of the more aware, it makes them realize that their definition of normal isn't everyone's.

Lots of people are saying that now, I mean, backyard eggs or farm-raised chicken eggs are SO much better than the eggs that come from abused hens who live in poop infested cages! Those eggs are just washed and stuck in a carton, and ours come from happy healthy chickens!

I looked at this video on Youtube and it just shocked me, I'm NEVER eating store bought eggs again! All eggs come from chicken butts, unless some people would like to eat plastic Easter eggs for breakfast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g57UBXgxf9Q

Show THAT to your friend and see what she thinks!

-Ellochicken

P.S. 

Sorry if I seem tempered, I just don't like people like that, I bet that any one of us would pull an egg from the vent if we had too! And they wont even eat the beautiful, mouthwatering eggs?! That's CRAZY!

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Originally Posted by aflad2013 

Too funny The question I always get is," How will they survive in the winter"?  Then I say," How is it that little chickadees survive our harsh SD winters with little feathers and the hens with plenty of feathers living in a off the ground coop with other hens and straw" but they still look at me as if Im from another planet.

Too much trouble. Much easier to say, "They have a fireplace in their hen house that keeps them warm and toasty all winter. But, it's a pain keeping them supplied in firewood". Stupid questions deserve stupid answers. Besides, I *love* the baffled looks they get on their faces.

Person: So what kind of rooster do u have?

Me: None..

Person: THEN HOW DO U GET EGGS!?!?!?! 

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Originally Posted by tadpole98 

Person: So what kind of rooster do u have?

Me: None..

Person: THEN HOW DO U GET EGGS!?!?!?! 

The usual way.    (leaving yet another baffled look on their faces)

Oh, did I tell you of my OH's friend who came round wanting chickens? We had put our coop together by then (the cheap nasty one, but with lots of cool upgrades) and my OH was giving him a tour with explanations such as:

We raised the perches to give more floor space and because chickens liek to roost as high as possible.

We painted the inside to make it easier to clean and to help prevent red mite.

We put a window in for daylight. Hopefully they'll lay for longer.

All that's left is to put the curtain rail up for the curtain.

The friend nodded and said "will you have to draw them everyday?"

*facepalm*

I've told people that if my Phoenix dies, he bursts into flames and rises up out of the ashes as a chick.  A few believed me, why, I have no idea.  They don't believe me that Naked Necks are a real breed, or that d'Uccle is pronounced dew-clay not duh-ewwwww-nickle. Point is, people are dumb and gullible, that's why they think eggs don't come out of a chickens butt.

P.S. Ellochicken, No I cried and made my dad do it.