Do you ever encounter people that don't know where eggs come from?

[cassie]

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Count your blessings. That way you won't have any freeloading relatives inviting themselves over for dinner. Oh, and you won't be expected to contribute at potlucks either because your food is homegrown. Just be sure to just remind them of that. If it is suggested that you buy something to bring tell them you refuse to buy anything you can grow at home.

 

[AmyRey]

If most people REALLY knew where their eggs came from (before they got to the grocery store) then far fewer people would be eating eggs.

I explained to my 8th grader that eggs don't come from a chicken's *ahem* hole but from her cloaca, he surprised me.

"Oh, she has a cloaca? You mean just like frogs do?"

 

[froggie71]

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My DH goes to physical therapy where they buy eggs from us from time to time. Just last night he was talking to the 2 female therapist about chickens and suggested they should get some. They both thought you needed to have a rooster to get eggs.

He explained the same way. "You don't need a man to have eggs, right?" LOL They get it now.

 

[LarryPQ]

I am crying inside...mostly because I have had these same conversations.

My neighbor won't even eat processed boneless/skinless chicken breasts from the store if she "has to touch it".

But at the same time she won't eat tofu (allthough I have snuck it in twice--told her is was queso fresco)

 

[DIMBY]

I might have you all beat and I ain't making this up. I was showing a neighbor - who has a BS degree and retired from the forest service - my hens and three roosters. I was lamenting the fact that up until a couple of weeks earlier, I was convinced they were all hens, so I was surprised and a bit vexed that I now had three roosters.

At which point he asked, "So, how old are chickens when they become roosters?"

 

[fshinggrl]

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Same here.. I mean, why would you get eggs if you don't have a rooster? LOL

 

[scooter147]

I have gotten all kinds of questions about eggs, chickens, roosters you name it. I find most people are just curious and interested.

But when I do run across that one "city slicker" that wouldn't eat my eggs because they are not store white or store clean or whatever I simple set them down at my computer type in battery hen in google and show them where there store eggs really come from. For the most part they change their tune.

 

[michickenwrangler]

We had some ofour city relations come up and visit a few weeks back and it had to be explained to the children that chickens make eggs. When our rooster crowed, one little girl said "He's crowing! Like in the book!" When the kids asked for milk later, I warned them that we only had raw goat milk in the house. They all refused to drink it. It took an hour of peer pressure to get my dad to try raw honey.

My mom buys eggs from a friend-of-a-friend's farm. They have a lot of hens and so the eggs aren't the cleanest. Her ex-boyfriend would refuse to eat those eggs. Even when she got clean eggs, he didn;t want to eat them because a few were "speckled" or "long"

 

[spacetygrss]

People in our country, in general, are completely disconnected from our food.

This is not about eggs, but it's along similar lines.
When I was still nursing my son I would get all kinds of odd comments about how "gross" breastfeeding is.

When I would inform people that when they drink milk they are drinking cow/goat BREASTMILK they would get so shocked and upset. HELLO! Where the heck do you think the milk comes from!

 

[Kojack]

Disconnect. that is what one does when you have no animal at home that providing you with sustenance. I for one will never disconnect. However regarding the rooster being needed for the production of an egg... My Mother who grew up on a farm with chickens, asked me if the reason that I wasn't getting eggs yet was due to my roo being infertile. Go figure...... I guess that since she always saw a rooster with hens growing up, she thought that he had to be there to "assist" with the production of an egg.