Am I the only one who gets REALLY annoyed with breed names...???

[debilorrah]

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It might be a Domindummer. (but would it look like Jim Carrey?)

 

[PineappleMama]

Oh My Golly that is freakin' brilliant!

 

[dancingbear]

I haven't yet read all the responses yet, but you know, just because a person has a pet peeve, it does NOT mean that it's the only thing in the whole wide world that person has to be concerned about. It's just ONE of the things that bug them.

The main complaint was that THE EXTENSION OFFICE, an agency that is assumed to know what they are talking about, that people are referred to all the time for correct information, is giving out WRONG information. Maybe that's ok with a lot of people. But it's sort of like if your kid's math teacher was insisting that 4 X 5 = 22. You know that's incorrect, but if you complained, would you like to have others say, "I wish that was the only thing I had to worry about."? Would you just say, oh well, close enough? Or would you want your kid's teacher to teach the correct information?

It's not just this one thing, that was just an example of the pervasiveness of misinformation that abounds these days. Can you see where that just might be a problem? I can understand and ignore it on somebody's private blog or other private web page, but from the so-called experts?

 

[Bunnylady]

Unfortunately, those of us most familiar with the NC extension service and its workings, are used to this kind of thing.

 

[KCNC06]

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Thank you.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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[Bantimna]

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It might be a Domindummer. (but would it look like Jim Carrey?)

 

[darkmatter]

"Me raise Chickens."

"Oh....What breed are they"

" Come from egg, me raise, me eat eggs and chickens, hatch more eggs"

" I mean, what kind of chickens do you raise?"

" egg and meat kind"

" Is there a name for the kind of chickens you raise?"

"Yes-----food"

 

[KCNC06]

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Cute. I've been telling people for quite a while now that we don't eat things that have names. All our chickens have names, therefore we don't and won't eat them. I've also tried to explain this to the chickens when they gather around my feet pecking at my shoes/tattoos/bug bites. I tell them "We don't eat things that have names. I have a name!! It's 'Giant Funny-looking Featherless Chicken Lady."

They don't seem to care.

 

[dancingbear]

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I have some Buckeyes that do that. I have a theory. Some people think this behavior means they're friendly. (We have one exceptionally friendly hen, named Rita. She comes up and "talks" to us, and waits to be picked up and petted. She doesn't peck us.) I think it means they've figured out that we "large weird objects", often drop food around. I think they're pecking us trying to make food fall out.