Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

kris13 said:

Friend came and saw our two day old chicks, "aw cute." etc.........
Came back last weekend (so three weeks) "wow, they got big!"
Uh................  yeah. That happens. 

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BantyChooks said:

Logic seems to be gone out the window when you've just brought home 8 more with 8 on the way and 5 ducks as soon as they hatch.... Plus 5 eggs...

This is me trying to downsize for the summer, by the way. They're going to be going into a tiny temporary coop, so I wanted to make it easy on myself and only have 18 chickens or so... I got it down to 23 adult birds but then chicks happened.

Guess they'll be in the house a while longer.

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I like that. "Chicks happen"! Good one! True, too.

TwoCrows said:

Just a brief interruption here...

I realize this thread has the tendency to get off topic, it has done so many times. But we do prefer if you all try and stay on topic?    Plenty of places around BYC to chit chat. Lets keep talking about what dumb things others say about our chickens and their eggs please. 

Thank you for your cooperation and have a great day!

-BYC Staff

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Hmm, good point and sorry for going off topic and/or being rude before

And that's true, there sure are a lot of threads! And if one doesn't fit, which would be difficult with how many there are, i guess they could make one

kris13 said:

Friend came and saw our two day old chicks, "aw cute." etc.........
Came back last weekend (so three weeks) "wow, they got big!"
Uh................ yeah. That happens.

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Every time.

ChickenCowboy02 said:

It amazes me how dumb people can be!

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I have a hard time calling people "dumb" when some are just plain uninformed. People who have never been around livestock or other farm animals have no clue. They are so far removed from their food source, some people think the chicken in the grocery store grows in the little styrofoam trays they come on! (OK, maybe not that bad, but you know what I mean...) "Dumb" happens when they are informed, and refuse to learn.

Why does that describe 90% of people I know?

junebuggena said:

16 layers, 2 roosters. 3 hens are continually broody in the summer, giving the incubator and brooders a break. I keep a handful of pullets each year for winter eggs and to replace the adults that I loose periodically to predation. I hatch and sell started pullets once they are off heat and ready to move outside. The cockerels are raised up for meat.

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I have to laugh it's not only with chickens I keep bees someone ask me once in the summer just how many bees I had anyway well I said I have 10 full hives and 3 nuc (half sized) hives one had started to swarm they said noooooo how many bees I thought for a moment and casually said ohh about a million they freaked out! Then I told them that I had 13 queens putting out about 2500 eggs a day!

Oh my gosh, I can't be the only one who has been asked this.
One of your friends comes along and asks,

So, do you eat your chickens when they get old?
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DO I LOOK LIKE A CANNIBAL DO I LOOK EVIL WOULD EAT YOU DOG WOULD YOU EAT YOUR LITTLE COUSIN WHY WOULD I EAT MY PET WHEN I HAVE WOOLWORTHS AROUND THE CORNER WHY WOULD I WANT TO EAT THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE????

No, I don't eat 'em...

I usually don't eat them when they get old, but I do eat all my extra cockerel and turkey.

bobbi-j said:

I have a hard time calling people "dumb" when some are just plain uninformed. People who have never been around livestock or other farm animals have no clue. They are so far removed from their food source, some people think the chicken in the grocery store grows in the little styrofoam trays they come on! (OK, maybe not that bad, but you know what I mean...) "Dumb" happens when they are informed, and refuse to learn. 

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I agree. And a lot of people probably don't even know you can have pet ducks, they maybe just see the mallards at the pond, and that's all they know or maybe think that they are seasonal layers like the mallards.

lilwildrabbit said:

I have to laugh it's not only with chickens I keep bees someone ask me once in the summer just how many bees I had anyway well I said I have 10 full hives and 3 nuc (half sized) hives one had started to swarm they said noooooo how many bees I thought for a moment and casually said ohh about a million they freaked out! Then I told them that I had 13 queens putting out about 2500 eggs a day!

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Wow that is A LOT of bees! Any reason why so many? And how do you keep them all fed?

ChickenKABOOM said:

Oh my gosh, I can't be the only one who has been asked this. 
One of your friends comes along and asks,

So, do you eat your chickens when they get old?
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DO I LOOK LIKE A CANNIBAL DO I LOOK EVIL WOULD EAT YOU DOG WOULD YOU EAT YOUR LITTLE COUSIN WHY WOULD I EAT MY PET WHEN I HAVE WOOLWORTHS AROUND THE CORNER WHY WOULD I WANT TO EAT THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE????

No, I don't eat 'em...

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Technically you wouldn't be a cannibal for eating them because cannibalism is eating your own species.

But I know what you mean, I have 8 birds and could never eat any of them