Does anyone else get mad ....

[JudyMcKinn]

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Uh, can you tell me where?? Here, regular old thinshelled, white eggs are $1.99/dozen. Don't even try to touch cage-free/organic/omega3/whatever else for that. My neighbor pays me $3/dozen for my fresh eggs. They're so yummy, they taste buttery without butter!

Hi, Cynthia,
Unfortunately, you can get them for .85 cents a dozen here 30 miles N. of Springfield, MO. Don't remember the exact pennies, but they always/usually have smaller, generic eggs available for something less than $1.00. And several choices on up, thru the sizes and organic, brown, etc., of course. I sell mine for $1.00 a dozen, and don't expect I could get much more. Most around here have the same mentality as listed above--why bother when they are cheap at the store, etc. Not a lot of people into organic around here, tho the groceries did introduce an organic counter in the past year or so in the produce dept. (Wal-mart and local "Woods Supermarket") Ah, well, hubby likes the fresh ones better.

 

[OHChick]

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My DH and I are from Kentucky. He (and I most of the time) think a lot of these Buckeyes are crazy, so when someone calls him a redneck, he says 'thank you'.

 

[TundraChick]

My8 old daughter refused to eat our eggs this spring. She couldn't tell me why. She had never had eggs that were not "store bought". Despite educating her, she still refused. One morning I made eggs and didn't tell her they were ours (we were still buying store eggs cause we only were getting 2 every other day). She was eating them and I spilled the beans. She looked at me a little funny and went on eating. No problems since.

If an 8yr old can be that way imagine a lifetime of ignorance and an adult with a closed mind!

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

People tell me it reminds them of their mother and father growing up with farm animals, which seem to be natural then, today people don't realize the benefits of raising your own animals, vegetables and fruits. We have turned into a society that lives out of cans and boxes and have to have the latest commercial product to make life easy so it will fit our busy schedules (fast foods). lol

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Can you please provide evidence of this? I've seen this once before on another site
but cannot see how it is possible. How can a chicken, with a much smaller brain, be
smarter than a much larger brained mammal? My chickens amaze me daily with their
obvious high level of inteligence but I still can't see how they are more intellegent than
a dog.

At reptile Gardens in South Dakota they have a coin operated machine. When you put your quarter in a door opens uncovering the window. The machine has a real chicken caged in it. You have buttons to push and the chicken has buttons to peck. It is basically a tic tac toe game. I saw several people wasting their quarters only to get whipped by a chicken every time.

That's funny. I'm sure it's a trick of some sort but it wouldn't surprise me either way.
Sometimes I think my chickens are smarter than some people, especially local news
anchors.

 

[country freedom]

Most city people don't realize that in keeping with everything modern, packaged foods, fast foods, and all other "convenieces" to make life "easier", they are hurting themselves. A crises could come up and the people who would fare better would be rural people living as close to nature as they could-living off the land, and having the necessary skills needed to live through a crises.

 

[Lunachick]

I haven't gotten any negative comments...yet. I get a few laughs like "are you serious?" But they do ask kinda stupid questions like the ones posted above, I just correctly inform them with the knowledge that I have.

I was away from home once, and talking on the phone to my dh and was telling him to make sure the chickens are locked up, when I noticed some strange looks from people close by, I loved it!

 

[Blisschick]

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I completely agree with this statement. I'm sure me and my family would fare better than a lot of urban dwellers just because of our knowlege and skill when it comes to raising our own food. It might not be pretty or taste as great as some commercial stuff, but at least we'll be eating.

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

I had one customer (whose mental state is questionable) tell me he felt sorry for me when I told him we had chickens. I asked him why he would feel sorry for me (he actually kinda p****d me off when he said that), then explained what I did and all the different breeds I had. He never knew that eggs could come in other shades than brown or white, or that there were so many different breeds of chickens. I gave him an exhaustive lesson on chickens that day, mostly because he annoyed the poo outta me, but also in hopes of educating him on not being condescending towards other people's hobbies when he has no idea what he's feeling sorry about. This coming from a 25 yr. old ignorant hermit of a computer geek who lives out in the woods with his parents.

Fortunately, most people out here have or have had chickens, so I don't get a lot of the negative. I've had many an interesting discussion with the oldtimers around here about their birds.​

 

[SeaChick]

...raising our own food. It might not be pretty or taste as great as some commercial stuff, but at least we'll be eating.

Really??????????? I find that everything we grow ourselves (as well as stuff other local folks grow that we buy, like pastured beef and pig) tastes a million times better than anything commercial. It's been a real revelation, actually.

My daughter has gone from someone who wouldn't eat an apple if it had a bruise or tiny blemish on it, to someone who actively picks out the weirder, spot-covered fruit from the fruit drawer because she knows it's probably some local heirloom thing that's going to taste WAAAAAAY better than that picture-perfect, waxed, mealy, grocery-store apple.

Stacey​

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I'm with SeaChick on flavor! A lot of the commercial varieties ship better, but have sacrificed flavor. If you grow your own, you can get varieties that taste so much better. You also get to let them ripen before picking! You will never get store bought berries, especially raspberries, that even remotely compare to what you can pick in your yard. Greens are another thing that are so much better fresh out of the garden. Ok, everything is!