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

[MissPrissy]

I was told once by a woman that she was a vegetarian - because she did not eat meat with bones in it.

 

[PortageGirl]

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Oh my goodnes!!

Thank you for that MissPrissy!!

I really needed a good laugh this morning!

 

[McCord6]

A friend ask me if a hen needs a rooster to lay eggs. I asked her if a woman needs a man to have her period. She said no, I told her it's the same thing. Now you need a rooster to have BABIES just like a woman needs a man to have BABIES. DUH

 

[Mac in Wisco]

I had a fellow stop by for eggs yesterday and he looked in the barn at all the hens and asked which ones were roosters. I told him that they were all hens. He wanted to know how they got pregnant then. I told him that they lay eggs regardless. He then asked again how they got pregnant. I wasn't about to explain the facts about the birds and the bees to a stranger, so I just let it go. I told him they don't need a rooster and lay eggs anyway.

 

[McCord6]

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uuuuhhhh hens dont get pregnant...Or do they?????

 

[JP33]

Here's some info: http://www.afn.org/~poultry/egghen.htm that enlightened me and may even enlighten some of you. This information is important to pass along to those believing eggs are passed through the same opening as does the excrement, which it does, and doesn't. Pay attention to the diagrams illustrating how the egg is not contaminated by stools or urates as a seperation in a hen's anatomy occurrs as the egg is being delivered.

2. The hen turns part of the cloaca and the last segment of the oviduct inside out, "like a glove." The described red membrane is then everted inside of these organs. The egg emerges far outside, at the end of the bulge. So it cannot contact the walls of the cloaca and get contaminated by stools or urine. Moreover, the intestine and inner part of the cloaca are kept shut by the emerging egg, and their contents cannot leave when the hen strains to deliver the egg. Therefore, eggs are always clean as they are laid. However, sometimes a hen, stomping around the nest with dirty feet, will get the egg dirty anyway.



...JP

 

[catdaddyfro]

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Check out post #61 here on this thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=265354=7

They do just come from Wal-mart, right?

Naw,I'm just kidding, but the OP is right they walk among us every day, and yeah they do vote also.

Scarey huh.
catdaddy

 

[Tweeza]

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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.

Actually, tell them it's your homegrown chicken or eggs and then you can take it home. There's no complaining that you didn't contribute. My mother did this at a church potluck. She told everyone that the meatloaf was ground horse meat. No one was into trying horse meatloaf.

 

[TipsyDog]

I had a 70+ year old woman stop by and go on and on about how I MUST have a rooster. She then told everyone that I was abusing my chickens. It's cruelty to animals. You cannot have chickens without a rooster AND they won't lay eggs anyway. She spread that all around town and unfortuantely, alot of people actually believed her!!!

It's not just chickens and eggs that is the problem when it comes to food disconnect in this country. For example, my elderly mother was invited somewhere one Sunday afternoon and asked my brother and his wife, who were visiting her, to please pick the peaches from her trees before he left to go home.

She got home later than evening and was horrified to find all her peaches in bowls on the kitchen counter. ALL OF THEM. Even the rock hard green ones. The entire harvest was ruined for the year and we had no peaches. My mom has cooked from scratch her entire life and has had vegetable gardens. How does my own brother not know better? I'm sure he grew up in the same house as I did

I find that Americans are afraid of dying to a greater degree than other cultures. Perhaps it is because they are so far removed from the daily life and death process that goes on when you butcher your own food? I also find they are removed from witnessing death. Dying people are usually sent off to hospitals or hospice care and no longer cared for at home as was the case a few short decades ago. I don't know - that's my theory anyway.

 

[canada-goose]

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....What?!

That's a classic!