Do you get the same reaction when you tell *why* you have chickens?

[Sunny Side Up]

I tell folks it's cathartic & cheaper than other forms of therapy...

 

[FrenchHen]

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you mean cheeper?
Sorry...puns run deep in my family.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I've enjoyed reading all the responses. Thanks for the giggles and outright

I get the same stuff.
I (with the help of another chicken keeper) once conviced a co-worker that blue eggs came from chickens that are depressed. This is the same person who wouldn't eat the carrots from my garden, because they came out of the dirt!? I tried to tell her, that once you wash and scrape them, they look just as clean as the store bought ones. She didn't go for it. I guess unseen germs are better than real visible dirt.

 

[pixie74943]

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Oh dear..

It worries me that there are people like that in the world

 

[walkswithdog]

Hey there are side benefits to Slaughtering at home. Once my family realized I sent every MEAN and CONTRARY and CONTENTIOUS or problem making bird to freezer camp they all became suddenly and amazingly more well behaved.

<Really big evil Grin>

 

[warmfuzzies]

we butchered yesterday, and my DHs cousin (14) came over to help. He diddnt believe I could chop a chickens head off and then gut it.

Jokes on him! He did the first few, and then I did one. Then I decided that I would try slitting. I loved it, but he couldnt do it! He tried a few, but was botching it, so I finished. But the highlight of my day was when he said, "Well, I could do them, but I was just DRINKING a pop and I think it will make me queasy"

Then, he asked me, dont you feel bad raising chickens just to kill them????
This is coming from a boy whose Dad, and as far back in his family as I know of, are all BEEF cattle ranchers.... I was like DONT YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR STEERS GO???

Hello.

 

[wisdom_seeker]

I find it amazing how many people have faith in the USDA. If is has a stamp that says grade "A" it must be the best!

I'm sure it is the same people who think that Social Security, medicare, the local DMV and soon to be health system run so well.

People are just programmed into thinking that if the government has its hands in it then it must be the best it can be!

 

[Beekissed]

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I agree with this! The people in my office are implying that I am brutish! I turn it around and imply that they are wimps, so we are even......

The lady who goes on and on about how "cruel" I am has a sister who runs a commercial laying operation!

When it comes down to it, people are nuts and largely uneducated about the food they eat. I don't feel obligated to give them some much needed psycho-analysis nor do I feel educating them at this point would do much good. You have either grown in wisdom as you age or you have not....either way, not my problem!

I will feast on tastey, healthy chicken and eggs and they will eat chemical and bacterial laden foods and natural selection will weed out this sector of the populace. Eventually, the only people left will be people who raise their own chickens for food. Then no explanation will be required!

 

[Mydnight]

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I will feast on tastey, healthy chicken and eggs and they will eat chemical and bacterial laden foods and natural selection will weed out this sector of the populace. Eventually, the only people left will be people who raise their own chickens for food.

The only problem with that is that the other people breed like rabbits!!!

All in all though, if we can get them young enough, not a bad idea to remake the world one egg or drumstick at a time. When the kids come over, we usually make something with eggs (I and two of the kids go nuts over deviled eggs) so they are learning that it tastes better.

Ooh, funny story!! I made a batch of deviled eggs because one of the kids' moms *Agnes* said she couldn't make hers for the potluck. So I made about 100 eggs, less than two hundred halves since I snuck some whilst making them. Since this was the annual potluck not some informal affair, I had to go big. Well, apparently she also told another mom of the group and *Betsy* made eggs too.
Needless to say, it was priceless that all of my eggs were gobbled down and she still had over 50 halves left (she'd only done thirty eggs! lol). Even funnier was the fact that we had gotten there over an hour later since we had an over heating car that day. Sigh, both Agnes and Betsy ate my eggs too, along with the rest of them.
Okay back on topic!​

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

i had a funny encounter with my vet.. i bring him stuff from the farm when i take the cats in and tell him all the stories. one day he said that he could NEVER butcher his own pigs/turkeys/chickens

i just looked at him and said i could NEVER go surgery

we both looked at each other like we had lobsters growing out of our ears and then laughed and laughed. he sticks to surgery and i bring him our farm fare.