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

[canada-goose]

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[wombat]

Maybe she wasn't getting enough roosterin' so she was feeling sorry for your hens.

 

[TipsyDog]

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Maybe. Her poor husband has cancer and he was also spreading those stories around. I'm still upset about that incidence though

 

[trilyn]

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You know, that's true; but I look at it this way, at least now I don't have to explain about a fertilized egg and all that jazz. I'd rather just shake my head yes, give them a dozen and run! As fast as I can-so I can laugh my butt off!!

I know I should educate them, but really-for what, most of these people are old enough to know better and are set in their ways. I also realllllyy want these eggs sold!

 

[samandramey]

A girl i work with says, " I cant believe you're gonna eat your pet's babies!" She is finding it hard to belive that the eggs she eats are exactly the same, and she says its different anyways because they are my pet's unborn babies! I dont have a rooster, which also baffles her as to how they make an egg without one. However, she'll eat a cheeseburger while holding her leather coach purse without a second thought! By the way i love cheeseburgers but i understand how it got to my belly!

 

[flakey chick]

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My dad sort of felt the same when when I first told him I was getting chickens even though he grew up on a farm. He insisted it was necessary, but not for eggs. He claimed that hens needed a rooster to keep the pecking order and be happy. Then he saw how happy my girls were even without a rooster. He was so amused how cute they were walking around the yard "talking to each other".

To be fair, my girls were VERY upset when I gave the boys away. Even though the young roos were quite obnoxious, they were missed at bed time. The girls broke out of the brooder and formed a search party to look for them. They called to their flock mates and looked under the furniture and behind boxes.

 

[strega78]

lol that is rather sad. My 3 year old daughter even knows where eggs come from and that we eat chickens, cows, fish....etc

 

[Tala]

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My dad sort of felt the same when when I first told him I was getting chickens even though he grew up on a farm. He insisted it was necessary, but not for eggs. He claimed that hens needed a rooster to keep the pecking order and be happy. Then he saw how happy my girls were even without a rooster. He was so amused how cute they were walking around the yard "talking to each other".

To be fair, my girls were VERY upset when I gave the boys away. Even though the young roos were quite obnoxious, they were missed at bed time. The girls broke out of the brooder and formed a search party to look for them. They called to their flock mates and looked under the furniture and behind boxes.

Yup. My roo stays awake most of the night (as far as I can tell). I guess they count on him to stay up for guard duty.
My roo is the first one to go to roost and he calls the ladies, similar to the way he calls them for treats!
For a while he tried to roost on my back porch, so for about a week I had to move him to their new coop. Once I got him "trained" he calls the ladies in with him!! That way I didn't have to move 5 birds every night till they figured it out

 

[Ariel301]

No idea if it's because of food residue on the labels, the labels themselves, or the glue that attracts goats to nibbling on them. I had a goat that would chew on anything I had... I think she resented any books or magazines I had because if I had a book it meant I wasn't giving her my complete attention or scratching her. so she ate as much as she could reach.

Goats just have a thing for eating paper. I don't know why, but they love it. Maybe it still tastes like trees? My girls ate my mom's firewood pile once when I took them to her property to mow the lawn. Mine also like rope, and plastic trash bags; we have to be very careful with the trash can near our goat pens because they will steal the bags and eat them! And I do have one old doe who chews on metal things--cans, buckets, her tie chain, the fencing...she's weird. Cans aren't really part of their diet and shouldn't be anyway, but goats have weird tastes, I would believe there's a few who would eat a can.

We had the whole family over at our house last night for a birthday dinner; we made barbecue beef sandwiches out of a roast from a heifer we butchered this summer. My mother-in-law mentioned to everyone that 'the meat came from our cow', and suddenly not too many people were hungry anymore! I also have trouble getting them to try milk from our goats, or homemade cheese! I gave a gallon of milk to my sister-in-law when she had to bottle-feed some kittens and told her that she could just drink whatever was left over, and I'd give her all she wanted since we get three gallons a day...I found out later that she poured it out!

I was impressed today though when my five year old nephew was looking at my chickens and asked if some time we could pick one out and pull all its feathers off so we could have it for dinner! I don't know how he made that connection, because he assures me that milk comes from a bottle, even after he milks my goats! Hahaha I asked him which chicken he thought we should choose, and he immediately pointed out the biggest one in sight!​

 

[Tala]

I just took my ~7week BSL cockerel "Stripey" on a field trip. I was taking a doz eggs to a friend and she wanted her kids to meet a real chicken.
Little ole Stripey is becoming a pet; riding around in my truck and such. I just wrapped him up in a sweatshirt since the cat carrier was dirty, and he waited until I put him back in the chicken tractor to take a big ole poop!

Maybe I helped educate some youngins, huh?