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

[lilwildrabbit]

It's like the chickens I'm the protector but also the predator I try to insure I have more for the next meal so I don't run out and the eggs are the appetizers till I go culling

 

[chickendreams24]

Yeah, I would also hope they don't kill them afterwards unless absolutely necessary. They do have a chimpanzee sanctuary for research animals.

While we're on this subject at the agricultural department/ program in our state college does feed studies on Cornish cross. The hatch and feed them and monitor them for several weeks. Now before a friend of my DH2B and I started going there they would then kill the chicks BC they had no outlet for them. Wasting hundreds and hundreds even thousands of lives and dollars a year for it.

How stupid is that. Hello just post them on Craigslist, finish them out and donate them. Heck offer them free or very cheap people would have bought them. Our friend was disgusted when he found out and asked the school to allow him to buy them. He then resells them to interested parties. I mean let's face it a 3-4 week old Cornish cross only needs to be 6-9 weeks to process anyways so it's halfway through its life.

While I'm more interested in the slow grow red broilers or heritage fowl we have decided to try some Cornish cross this summer and we will be getting them from him.

Well, I will throw myself under the bus and share the dumbest thing I have said regarding chickens... the first time I met someone with a backyard flock, we got to talking just when one of their hens was laying an egg. I noticed the egg was white and said "I thought all chicken eggs were brown and the store bought ones are bleached."

Needless to say, they got a good laugh out of it, and I learned a lesson about chickens and their eggs. I seriously thought all eggs were brown!

Okay I get what you're saying since a lot of people think stir bought eggs are bleached. Now do you have blue or green eggs or possibly tinted or pink. How about some ducks Cayuga's lay eggs with blooms that can appear various shades of gray to even black!

You just made my day
Wait, you EAT your chicken eggs?!?! That is AWESOME!!!
sorry, I'm weird

OMG We Got Us A Savage person here!! They devour unborn chicks!! Oh how TASTY!!

I can not believe they eat their own chicken's eggs.



That just seems SO wrong!


LOLOLOLOL

Balut egg anyone? Lol sorry but the comments about eating an unborn chick made me think of it. Ick ick ick. I don't care if I'm in another country and it's rude I think I would barf if I forced myself to eat that.

Now that being said I have also gotten that before from people. Living in farm country it often surprises me. DH2B's father actually told us when we got the flock and he found out we had roosters that we couldn't eat the eggs BC there would be a chick in them or blood spots BC they're fertile. This from a man who's been a farmer his whole life and who I'm sure experienced chickens as a kid. To this day I'm still not sure if he was yanking our chain or not but he refuses our eggs which is fine.

 

[chickendreams24]

Lol absolutely chickens can be sweet!!!!! I love some of my chickens and they won't ever be culled unless they were suffering. These we call our lifers. While I love and care for all of our chickens to the very best of my knowledge and ability there are those that I don't for and those that I don't so much. I'm not callous I would kill a predator to protect any of our flock but the are those that if I had to I would run up and whack the predator over the head with a flashlight. I have gotten between a predator and my birds on several occasions.

I have however also processed and eaten some of our birds. It's keeps our flock healthy just like keeping the mustangs in check. If we don't sell or cull extras they would overgraze the yard and strip it of forage. Causing errosion and other problems. More importantly they would have to fight for food and water(our birds always get fed before we buy our own food just like our dogs and cats.) If we didn't have enough feeders for the number of birds.

This would cause starvation which could lead to cannibalism and further losses. They would also begin eating their eggs due to lack of nutrition and there would go my supply. Then to top it off the cockerals and roosters without culling the spares would over run the yard and outnumber the hens and pullets. They would tear up the girls mating and fight each other, even to the death, which is not only cruel but a complete waste. The girls' wounds without treatment could become badly infected and could easily be life threatening. We have dealt with some injuries in the past and have been blessed that we caught them all in time.

So you see it's essential for us to care for our domesticated animals.

I am their guardian, their caregiver, teacher, friend, Mom, champion, nurse, doctor, surgeon, their most trusted individual, their predator, the bringer of scratch and good things, first responder, disciplinarian(yes sometimes I have to scold and get after them), giver of pets and hugs and kisses(yes I kiss my chickens. I'm not ashamed to admit it obviously if they've been into something gross I forgo kisses to the beak. I've met many humans that I wouldn't kiss in a lifetime. Give me a chicken any day lol) their gossip buddy, their beak cleaning device(my arm, shoulder, boot and shin being the choicest places), and I'm also the safe zone in their never ending game of tag. I teach them their names and to come when I call. I protect the girls from sometimes unruly boys- I have a chocolate Orpington that is everyone's favorite. Her favorite place is right between my ankles or standing on my boot. Lol

If new people arrive with me then they must be safe. If soothe them then generally they calm down. If a predator shows up I walk the yard and escort each group to the coop from under bushes and trees and porches.

While the flock also trusts DH2B they're calmer with me and trust me more. While I help with every part of processing I haven't yet been able to do the killing. That is DH2B's job and possibly why when he walks into the cockeral grow outs and tries to catch a bird they panic. Lol I walk in and everyone calms. This was particularly noticeable last weekend when we moved an entire grow out pen of cockerals to a new coop and larger area with a run and grass. It's was hysterical. Over and over I caught birds for DH2B, who admittedly was playing injured and applying pressure to a small stab in his palm from a broken window. Still it was funny to watch the change in the boys. I'd hand them over and then soothe them lol. It's kind of funny. I'd tell them they were not going to be processed yet and that they'd be much happier.

NOTE** : We do not process them in front of the other cockerals and we make sure each bird is calm and relaxed before we place them in the killing cne and continue. We have found this gives us more tender meat even from our heritage cockerals over 6-8 months. We don't brine our chickens but may try it in the future. We also feel this is the kindest end possible following the kindest life we can give them.

I am planning to call my Dad tomorrow to see if him and his wife have eaten either of the birds we processed and gave to them for Christmas. Lol it should give some great responses. Lol they of course don't appreciate them as they should Dad's wife especially.

 

[chameleon]

Well, I will throw myself under the bus and share the dumbest thing I have said regarding chickens... the first time I met someone with a backyard flock, we got to talking just when one of their hens was laying an egg. I noticed the egg was white and said "I thought all chicken eggs were brown and the store bought ones are bleached."

Needless to say, they got a good laugh out of it, and I learned a lesson about chickens and their eggs. I seriously thought all eggs were brown!

I'm going to have to admit I thought the same. Where I live even the store bought ones are brown so when I went to Europe for the first time and saw white eggs I also thought they must be bleached.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I'm going to have to admit I thought the same. Where I live even the store bought ones are brown so when I went to Europe for the first time and saw white eggs I also thought they must be bleached.

nd I always thought the brown eggs came out the butt but found out all come out the butt that freaked me out!!

 

[10AcreChick]

It's like the chickens I'm the protector but also the predator I try to insure I have more for the next meal so I don't run out and the eggs are the appetizers till I go culling

Appetizers! That's good!! Lolololol

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I'm going to have to admit I thought the same. Where I live even the store bought ones are brown so when I went to Europe for the first time and saw white eggs I also thought they must be bleached.

nd I always thought the brown eggs came out the butt but found out all come out the butt that freaked me out!!

Hahahahahahaha! You gotta admit, accidently, or on purpose, catching a peek right when she lays that egg, it's freakin gross! Can you imagine if they showed that on tv? All the ppl that would stop eating eggs! Hahahahaha!

My coworker has finally agreed to try my eggs. He says he's scared of farm fresh eggs!

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Appetizers! That's good!! Lolololol
Hahahahahahaha! You gotta admit, accidently, or on purpose, catching a peek right when she lays that egg, it's freakin gross! Can you imagine if they showed that on tv? All the ppl that would stop eating eggs! Hahahahaha!

My coworker has finally agreed to try my eggs. He says he's scared of farm fresh eggs!

It would put a hurt on the chicken industry for sure!! I didn't eat eggs or chicken for almost a year!!

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Well I just got done watching when turkeys attack and it reminded me of my sisters turkey years ago I just realized I don't wanna hatch any

eggs

 

[ChickenGoesRuff]

I just told my friend that I hadn't seen for a while that I have chickens, and that my rooster is very sweet. He goes, "Chickens can be sweet?"

I have taken 2 silkie cockerels, a silkie pullet, and a red ranger pullet (all were 15 weeks old) to the daycare where I work part-time to show the kids (after a lesson section on living things and animals). The kids went nuts, and the chickens loved the attention (they were on leash, and I had a kennel set up so they could have some space if they started to act stressed). Besides my coworkers' disbelief at the well behaved birds, my favorite reaction was a five year old asking the meatbird's name. I told him "Ranger" (creative, I know), and he went on to inform me that she should have been named nugget, because that what she would become one day. I had to hide the laughter, but if only all people were like that kid... They had chicken nuggets the next day for lunch, and since I didn't bring the chickens again, the little boy was cackling about how Ranger probably became "Nugget". You win some, you lose some.

Over lunch today, someone asked how I liked chickens, yet still ate chicken (including birds I had raised). The exact words were "How do you eat your chickens if you like them so much, or like, how are you not vegan? I mean, thank goodness you aren't vegan, but still." I replied by showing a picture of my day old Cornish X chicks, then a picture of the 17 day old monstrosities (the awkward feathering and softball sized chicks). Went from "awwww" to "oh" real fast. I also explained how they were given great lives and quick deaths (I didn't have to kill them), and then the meat was appreciated and not wasted.

 

[allosaurusrock]

Yeah, people are always shocked when they hear I killed some of my birds.