Does your family make fun of your chickens?

[CluckyJay]

I basically tell people like that to stuff it.

 

[citychickx6]

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Yes, from my mother and I'm sick of it! Then she tells me I'm going against the bible feeding my chickens unfertilized eggs and says it's cannibalism. Yet, they expect free eggs for my dad. My mom refuses to eat them because they are not pasturized. Then she tells me in order for my chickens to lay, they need a rooster. My mom continues to give me the craziest chicken advice and she can't stand them. She doesn't understand how anyone can consider them as a pet.

In all honesty I can never do anything right in my mothers eyes, so I don't really care what she thinks. I love my chickens to pieces!

OMG, are you my identical twin and we share the same mother?

Triplets I think. I hardly speak to any of my family anymore and am happier for it.
My chickens come when I call and let me pet them. They never tell me what to do ( I am 43 don't really need anyone doing that ). They give me eggs to enjoy and constant laughter while I am with them. They have names and personalities. What is not to love?
My DH loves them too and has come to accept that they are part of the family. ( I caught him going out to the shed with a detour to the coop to scritch a chicken.)

 

[Frost Homestead]

I would take a stand and tell them that you do not find what they are doing funny, let them know that it bothers you and that you will no longer be giving away free eggs. making fun of people is childish and hurtful, especially when the people doing it are family.

 

[Brindlebtch]

My husband thinks chickens are fine. My mother in law thinks they are sort of OK. Everybody else thinks I'm deranged. Just do what you like and never expect anybody to understand why you like what you do.

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Please tell me where and what he thinks the meat from the store comes from. I really want to know.

I've said that exact same thing to him before. He says when it's on a styrafoam tray and wrapped in cellophane he doesn't have to think about it. He was aghast when he saw the slaughtered chickens still had pinfeathers/feet attached to them. Again, my mother's side of the family were all farmers and so Mom used to spend her summers on one farm or another in the 1960s growing up.

Which I think it's ridiculous, especially since our 1/4 beef comes nicely wrapped in butcher paper labeled with the cut on it. Although I think it freaked him out when he came up for a barbecue last summer and saw me unwrap the defrosted meat and saw that there was still blood there.

What makes this REALLY odd is that he's a physician (internal medicine) and has dissected more than his share of both animal and human bodies.

 

[Sword]

My family teases me about my chickens, but it's all in good humor. I do get lots of nasty comments about the super spoiled barn cats, though (not from my family). I'd have thought it would be the other way around.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Most of my family adores my girls. Usually people will joke about killing and eating my hens. That always irks me quite a bit. I mean seriously, you know theyre my PETS, why make those crass jokes? not to mention how stupid you look talking about eating a two and a half year old laying hen.

 

[RaZ]

Not that my Mom makes fun of my chickens...it's that she worries I have an "illegal" flock.
Someone at her church told her that I can go to jail for having chickens, so now Mom thinks I'll be hauled away at gun point by the boys in blue.

On the other hand, she asked if I could bring her 8 eggs if it wasn't a bother.

 

[StevenW.]

I get very defensive if someone says anything about my animals. (Its not pretty when I get mad.. I have a German temper..)

I get defensive because they are like my children and they are asking for a @ss whoopin' if they say anything about them.

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

My boss says I talk more about my chickens than I do my kids. Lol