Does anyone else get mad ....

[joanm]

Been there - done that. I ignore them...

 

[McGoo]

The owner of the local pet shop went on and on when I asked if she had corncob pellets for the litter under the roost. It took her about 10 minutes to stop talking about all the bad things about chickens. I was baffled...she's got all these animals there and what makes them better than my chooks. I don't go there very much now - why support her.

Living in the suburbs of NYC I get a lot of people asking me some pretty silly questions... Do you eat the eggs? No, I throw them away and buy caged hen eggs in the supermarket -

Another bizzare one is that some people refuse to eat my eggs because they could be fertilized. Heard of that before?

 

[ratlummountain]

i can honestly say that no one has ever said that to me.

most people either express an interest in getting chickens themselves ~ or are at least curious about the chickens ~
or they start reminiscing about the chickens they had as a kid, grandma's chickens, the neighbors rooster, etc.

 

[Mulemom]

I brought in 10 dozen eggs to work the other day. Most everyone loved them, but one gal refused to try them because they were brown.

Another friend took home a dozen and her husband went out and bought white eggs at ths store. One he tasted my fresh eggs the dogs got the store bought ones.

 

[tink]

I was at a retreat this last weekend and the speaker refered to chickens as being smelly little creatures and that when he was in the coop he couldn't breath. Well, he was in a chicken house with 1000's of chickens. Yes it probably did stink.....but I pointed out to him in front of all the students that it was not the chickens but the owners who were not doing their job!!!

Mad me angry.....
Tink

 

[hsm5grls]

Another bizzare one is that some people refuse to eat my eggs because they could be fertilized. Heard of that before?

Yes and my response was "who offered eggs?" As if because I had eggs everyone else around was getting some too!

 

[SpottedCrow]

Guilty!!

I hate when idiots think that your chicken is gonna give them Parrot Fever.

I hate when they say that they're dirty, stinky, noisy...I'll give them noisy.

Folks get really PO'd when I tell that at least my bird doesn't lick it's butt.

My Aunt is never ever getting any eggs because she had the nerve to over cook some that I gave her and then blame Penny...un

 

[OHChick]

glad i'm not the only one. i do try and take it in stride and laugh it off but what amazes me is that we live in a rural area and the sheer number of people who feel the need to share their negative comments bugs me. i mean if someone told me they were a worm farmer, i would at least have the courtesy to pretend that was neat, even if i hated worms.

i thank heaven for BYC though, the only place where there are people as crazy as me.

 

[1acrefarm]

When I got my chickens my own stepson said he would not eat the eggs. I asked him why not. He said they come from a chickens butt. I said where do you think store bought eggs come from. He said I'm still not gonna eat them. I told him your loss I am not buying any eggs when we have better ones at home. It did not take him long to try the home raised eggs. He loves them. My chickens and ducks quit laying for close to three weeks and my wife went and bought some. He tried to eat those store bought eggs and put them down.

 

[poppycat]

My parents think that my chickens are the grossest things on the planet. My mom won't eat my eggs because they came from a chickens rear end.

Usually I laugh it off. But my mom has Parkinson's disease and requires nearly everything to be done for her. So picture me getting up all night long to help her, cleaning up "accidents" (and then doing all the associated laundry) and then cooking her meals only to have her question whether anything had my chicken eggs in them.

If she only knew where those white ones in the fridge came from... I'm pretty sure she thinks the Easter Bunny laid them right in the carton.