Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Page 83

A vistor having coffee at our home, looking out the dining-room window, observed 6 of our hens having a mass-dustbathing session.

She got a disturbed look on her face and uttered the following:

"OMG!!! ARE THEY SICK???? DO THEY HAVE RABIES OR SOMETHING????"

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I politely engaged her....  "Nope....." I said, then asked "How do you think they make eggs to lay?????"   

Mrs. promptly kicked my shin under the table............

My MIL grew up with chickens and told me I had to de-beak them or else they would kill each other...even if I let them free range ("why on earth would you let them outside?"). She also thought I needed a rooster for eggs.

 HA!  Got a related one: a friend of mine lives next to a fella that "free-ranges" his chickens...all over the neighborhood.  Well, a few wandered into her yard, where the resident red-tail hawk promptly took one out.  My friend (a huge wildlife fan) went outside to take pics of the hawk when the chickens' owner showed up.  He saw the chicken, and went inside for a rifle.  My friend told him that there was NO WAY he could shoot into her yard, and besides, shooting a hawk is illegal.  He tried to convince her that he HAD to shoot it because, "Hawks don't normally eat chickens...that one is acting really weird...it must be rabid."  (Needless to say, my friend forbid him from shooting it, and the "rabid" hawk got to enjoy a meal...)  Funny how a hawk doing what comes naturally is thought of as being sick...

I'm just focusing on being rich... because money DOES solve problems. I'd be able to afford to move to the US and create a whole new range of problems over there LOL

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.

I have one thing to say for BOTH of you

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCHIN !!!

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