Does anyone else get laughed at for

[cassie]

Nobody would DARE laugh at me for taking stuff home. I do it all the time. Always have. And I don't make a secret of the fact that the leftovers are not for the chickens and they are not for the dog. They are for me. I don't announce that fact. I just don't make a secret of it. Most restaurants serve way too much food, so tonight's restaurant dinner is my tomorrow's lunch. When we were first going together, the man who is now my husband would fuss a little when I requested a doggie bag. I told him to get over it, that I wasn't going to let good food go to waste, and that his frugal mother would certainly approve. I told him that if he was going to go to the trouble of getting embarrassed over something I did, to at least make sure it was something worth getting embarrassed about.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

yes, all the local restaurant staff know that I WANT my table scraps. I'm pretty sure they think I'm strange . . . but not to worried about it!

 

[pardenx3]

My hubby, Wayne just smiles and shakes his head at me when I "spoil" our chickens.

 

[roaminggnome61]

Our family ALWAYS brings food home. The portions at restaurants are wayyyyyy too large, so we stretch our dollars as far as we can. I will say that the humans get the first pickins of the leftovers, but then, depending what they are...the hens get the goodies. I use to give the scraps to the dogs, but they get too fat, so they only get selected items. My hens on the other hand do not have to worry about the treats going to their hips.

As for people laughing at me......my chicken obsession has caused more than one person to chuckle.

 

[duckyfromoz]

We sometimes have a BBQ lunch at work, and I usually end up with all the left over salad and bread rolls. A few fellow workers with dogs get the meat.... So we are all happy. I had a bag sitting on my desk once and a courier came in for a pick up.... I caught the strange look on his face as he saw the bag of scraps.... Hope he didnt think it really was MY lunch.

 

[Hozer]

My wife works at a hotel and you would be amazed at the amount of food people leave in the rooms....mostly pizza. Her co-workers save it for her and some buy eggs. I figure we are turning pizza into eggs.

The down side is there is too much and my chickens are picking each other's feathers from lack of protein...I think. I don't want to discourage my wife tho...she wasn't realy on board in the beginning.

 

[scooter147]

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A tad OT but did anyone see the show on Discover or TLC of the hog farmer in the Vegas area that gets all the leftovers from all the hotels and feeds it to his 3000 head of hogs. It didn't say if he had to pay for it but if he doesn't that's a economical hog farm. It was all he fed.
The only thing I really didn't understand was that he cooked it to sterilize it. Apparently he never visited our family farm, our hogs ate anything, it was never sterilized and they never died from it.

 

[WoodChic]

I've never brought food home for the chickens, but we bring all the extra food home for us to eat later!

 

[12GAGirl]

My flock gets the leftovers from the kitchen and from restaurants plus any kitchen scraps from my cooking. They got carrots peels and leftover chicken noodle soup today!

 

[DarkUnicorn]

My whole family will bring home leftovers for the flock......

Even the employees from the family business bring in leftovers from home just to come over and feed the "vultures" just because the flock is so friendly...

So no one here thinks it is strange.... well maybe a few of the customers, but a few of them are stopping by to treat the girls now too!