Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Page 86

I have heard that chickens stink from so many people that I have started just freaking out completely when people say it to me!  My chickens smell just lovely, especially when they have been sunning themselves in the hay bale!  The ONLY time they smell less than perfect is the day or two after I spray for mites and ticks.  That stuff is nasty!  But they dust and preen until they are delish again!

Oh yeah I've heard all the "uneducated" statements involving eggs and needing a rooster.

 

I asked a friend of mine if she wanted some duck eggs. She said no she didn't have a place to keep them (hatched). I said no, these are for eating. YOU CAN EAT DUCK EGGS?! 

 

But the 3 highest ranking dumbest thing I've ever heard are:

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#1. "my dog had kittens this weekend" and she was serious and got mad at me when I couldn't stop laughing.

 

#2  "how do they get the peanut in the shell?" sadly my brother married this one, later divorced her too. She will forever be remembered as Peanut.

 

#3 From a high school graduate co-working at a bank, "Are islands attached underneath or do they just float around?"   I asked her what school she went to. She asked why. I told her I wanted to know so that I could make sure my son didn't go there. She actually got offended.

XD A new one from earlier today- "ewwwwww that chicken is missing the top part of it's head!!!!!!". She was referring to my light brahma withe "bumpy head" (comb) XD 90% of this stuff comes from my neighbor... Who is one month younger than me ._.

 

Unless it was a Master's degree in common sense, I wouldn't put too much stock in it. Academics can be very dense in areas outside their expertise. I went to graduate school with many of these geniuses, so I've seen them in "action". <eyeroll> 

Everybody and their mother tried to convince me that my chickens would smell. I had to remind each and every one of them that: 

 

A) I lived on a farm (actually a kibbutz) and I know what chickens smell like

B) 4 chickens do not smell the same as 18,000 turkeys (which is what we had on our kibbutz)

 

Now that I have my girls, they are not in the least bit stinky! They smell like fresh straw and pine shavings!

I just used Sweet PDZ this week. Can't smell a thing now.

 

Ron

I've noticed that some of my chickens have a distinct smell (usually because they are eating their favorite fruit from our trees).

 

One roo smells like peaches, one d'Uccle smells like apples, and when the cherries come in they all smell Sooooooooooooo good!  Although Sophie for some reason smells like Ivory soap all the time (unless we threw out some spaghetti, that's her fave).  I have yet to figure out why.....

 

Does Sophie hang out by the dryer vent to the outside?  mine do, and so sometimes they smell like the fabric softener sheet.  

Not really, some of them do though  and they smell "Mountain Spring FRESH!"

Here's a new one from my great aunt: (this happens after she tells me that I'm not packing them right, and that I should be getting my own cartons, instead of re-using, because that's the way her daughter in law does it: I'm using the name Allison for her daughter in law, but that is not her real name.  I'm using G-A to mean great aunt)

 

G-A: Well, at least you do a better job at cleaning them than Allison

Me: Thank you, my hens pride themselves on being able to lay clean eggs

G-A: Yes, that makes washing them a lot easier.  I remember having to wash eggs for Granma and Granpa's business (HA! Granma and Granpa ran a HUGE egg operation with over 200,000 hens, and 20 automated cleaning stations.  You never washed ONE of those eggs!)

Me: Oh yes, they do all the work for me!

G-A: *getting suspicious now* Well, it does seem like they do all the work for you when they lay clean eggs...

Me: No really, They DO DO all the work for me.  I never washed those eggs.

G-A: WELL ISN"T THAT UNHEALTHY?!?!?!?!

Me: Oh no, far from it.  You see by leaving the bloom, although you probably don't know what that is, on the egg, it helps keep bacteria from entering the egg.  So, it is really much healthier.

G-A: Well, I guess I can just wash them when we get back to the house....

Me: Well, that kind of eliminates the point, doesn't it?

G-A: *to my Nana*Have you seen that new show on blah, blah, blah.....

 

VICTORY!

 

Here's another from the same day.  I have my d'Anver roo on my shoulder:

 

G-A: Oh, what a pretty hen, what's his name?

Me: Wait, do you mean "What a pretty hen what's her name?" or "What a pretty rooster, what's his name?"????

G-A: I MEAN what a pretty hen, what's HIS name?