Are people really this ignorant about chicken biology?

[codybird]

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Loretta

I'll stop now.

 

[19hhbelgian]

Hmmm, what's that saying about IQ & insanity?

My husbands uncle is very book smart, and is a very successful business man. Give him a simple task and all of a sudden, it's complicated. Since we've been on our farm, I've actually had people stop to see the horses. One of the guys got out and was talking to me about them. He was in his upper 30's, and he told me he had never in his life seen a horse in person before! My mom had someone who lives in the city and RARELY drives, call her on the phone for directions, and descrided the toll booths as the things that look like the starting gates the race horses come out of

I think it's funny, but put me in the city and I freak out, I've lived in the country my whole life, so plenty I don't know about the city... Doesn't make me or anybody else stupid. We all find different things silly or dumb - I wouldn't take offense to anything anybody is writing... I knew the rooster fertilzed the hen before the egg was "made", but didn't know they don't have "normal" organs... We all learn new things every day, no matter how trivial

 

[New adventure]

When I was a little girl, my mom would wash our mouths out with soap for saying either "shut up" or calling someone "stupid". Everyone in the neighbor got it at least once from her. I didn't even know there were other "bad" words until middle school.

So anyway, naive child that I still am, some of us think being called stupid is very offensive and not just a common expression of frustration.

That said, lack of curiousity is my pet peeve with people. We live in such a fascinating world and there are so many ways to explore it. Some people probably didn't even have books about animals read to them as kids. Ya gotta just feel fortunate if you have a sense of wonder and remember to instill it in other people you meet.

I'll get off my soapbox now -

 

[speckledhen]

Maybe the OP would like to change the title to "Are people really this uninformed about chicken biology?"

Ignorance means you do not know something whereas stupid means you are unable to learn it. I've seen lots of ignorance, including willing ignorance, but usually folks are able to learn about chickens.

The discussion is getting off track, so let's get back on track here, please.

City folks are uninformed about country things and vice versa and it doesn't stop with just chickens. I lived in the city as a kid, but my dad bought us a pony, which we boarded, then brought home to play with on weekends. He'd on occasion stake her out in the front yard to graze. One day a boy rode up on a bicycle, about my own age, I guess, and asked if that was a cow.

I could not understand how someone didn't know the difference between a pony and a cow, but then, I played on my grandfather's farm all the time, so had different experiences.

 

[PostalChick]

Just today, 2 co-workers asked how I planned for my hens to lay eggs, since I have no rooster? I explained, they lay without a rooster, the eggs are infertile like the ones you buy at the store.

I've been asked this at least a half-dozen times since I got my chicks, by co workers. It's funny

 

[EweSheep]

We really need to educate the public particuarly the city kids about farm animals and farming so they would get the idea where their food comes from.

Today DD had a neat party for her pre K as a last day. And they had two baby calves at three days old, and they were of Shorthorn cross or "shorthorn plus".

One kid said oh that's a pony!

 

[hikerchick]

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The word stupid is in the title of this thread. OP is basically saying "anyone who doesn't know what I know is stupid"

No, it is not directed at me, or at anyone on this forum but the concept is offensive.

 

[dun chick]

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The word stupid is in the title of this thread. OP is basically saying "anyone who doesn't know what I know is stupid"

No, it is not directed at me, or at anyone on this forum but the concept is offensive.

I stand corrected.

 

[Carolina]

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There's a scene I remember from the old TV show "All in the Family". This is paraphrasing from memory:

Edith: I made Archie a sandwich from beef tongue, but he didn't want it. He said he would never eat something that had been in a cow's mouth.

Mike: So what did he eat instead?

Edith: A boiled egg.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

I know someone who does not know where the country of Australia is.

Does this make her she stupid...no. However, it may show how the education system that taught her was lacking and may have stunted her natural curiosity to seek further understanding of her world.