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

[wombat]

I bet if you told most people that white eggs come from chickens with white ears, and brown eggs come from chickens with red ears, they would think you were having one over on them.

 

[johnwilly1962]

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But they may be able to spell ignorance!
Threads similar ro this appear every so often. Why would you expect people with no interest in chickens to know anything about chickens?

Kooshie used ignorants (people who suffer from ignorance) as a noun, not an adjective, so they are correct. If someone has no interest in chickens, than why ask stupid questions? And YES, way superior,,,,,,,lol.

 

[PortageGirl]

Well, when people say things like white hens=white eggs, and brown/red hen = brown eggs, I try to say something like "Well a lot of times that does hold true, but what really tells you what color eggs is the color of their 'ear lobes' and explain from there.

They may really have seen evidence that makes them think that the feather color shows the egg color, i.e. white leghorn = white egg, RIR = brown egg, so by allowing that there's some truth to it (in a way) reassures them that a) they weren't ALL wrong, so they don't feel stupid, and b) you're not trying to mislead them or call them stupid.

 

[Olive Hill]

I am truly appalled at the disconnect in this country between the food we consume and knowing where it comes from. If anything riles my feathers, it's that.

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But even that doesn't hold true 100%. Pendesencas have white ears and lay brown eggs.

 

[wannabe_goatmom]

I was always told that it was the quality of the feed that made the eggs white or brown. Chickens in "factories" are fed cheap food so they lay white eggs and chickens on farms are allowed to free range and so they get better quality food so they lay brown eggs. "That is the reason brown eggs are more expensive than white eggs," my mom would always say.

Imagine my surprise when I learned that allowing your chickens to free range would make the INSIDE of the egg a different color.

 

[bryan8]

Ive had the usual saying im a lier and you need a rooster to get eggs.....

Also my nebor said that a chicken can get preg and have baby chicks by getting sunlight exposed to there beak....

hahah people are not that smart sometimes


~Bryan

 

[valkerri]

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LOL!!

 

[stethomps]

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I saw this happen when I was a kid. My dad grew up on 200 year old farm that was ran with 100 year old technology, and they lived pretty much self sufficient. & it happened twice that I can remember, once was a chicken egg & the other time it was a goose egg.

 

[Big C]

We own a garden center/florist/farm store. Have for most of 20 years.
These days we get more and more customers that are still amazed that groceries can actually be grown/raised right in your own back yard.
Keep trying to educate year after year more and more.
Now the customer mix who do not know that groceries are only PURCHASED at the grocery store is about 40% or less. Keep telling my wife... doomed these people are, doomed at any chance of a real life.
We keep plugging along, converting the new as the older goes to their reward.

 

[Paganbird]

I can't believe that no one has posted anything about the fertilized egg issue!
We sell our eggs at work & there are a few people who won't buy our eggs because they are fertilized and that changes the taste and nutritional value!
These are nurses I work with... you think they could be reasoned with, but no, they assure me that I just don't know & I'm peddling unhealthy eggs.
They also thing my blue & green eggs are disgusting. I tried to tell them that if you fry a brown one & a green one, you absolutely cannot tell the difference. They wouldn't try it.