Dumbest Questions or Comments You Have Received About Birds

[Chickengal505]

Lady: (holds out a chick feeder at flea market) Would you like to buy a old country style candy dish?

Me: Ummmm exuse me but thats a bitty feeder...

Lady: A WHAT feeder im sorry but you have clearly gone crackers if you were to feed WHAT EVERS from this PRICE LESS Candy dish

Me: Tisk tisk tisk "shakes head sadly"

 

[PrinceSandwich]

I was showing some family members the birds, and my grandma saw my Buckeye hen run by, and she asked " that one lays eggs right?" Yes Grandma all hens lay eggs

 

[Naughty]

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My 3 year old was broken hearted that the eggs werent brown on the inside...

 

[Chickenrandomness]

i've had people ask me if i'm going to eat the egg my hens give me. (i've told them before that i have no roosters) noooo, i'm going to let the eggs sit in the fridge all year

 

[9 Feathers Farm]

While talking to family member (during a chicken dinner) about our meat chickens, the family member said "thats gross I could never eat a chicken" and then took a bite of .....BBQ chicken

 

[lizzy06019]

My mom sent me an email that links chicken DNA to dinosaurs. She then lectured me that chickens are dangerous and unpredictable and I shouldn't allow my young children around them. I proceeded to say, "You're right mom, I remember hearing about all those people being attacked and killed by their backyard chickens." She would've said anything to convince my husband and me that owning chickens was a bad idea. Obviously that didn't work.

 

[LivinNewDreamInND]

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I experienced the opposite of this last week while visiting the Hogle Zoo in SLC Utah. The zoo has a small flock of un-caged wild turkey (for bug control, they also have guineas and OEGBs) and while I was looking at them with my sons a woman walked by and said "oh look at the pretty peacocks!"

 

[PrinceSandwich]

I was watching AFV ( Americas funniest home videos), and there was a clip of a boy being chased by a Guinea, and the host said something about Peacocks attacking!

 

[crtrlovr]

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WHY are some people so against raising chickens and having fresh eggs (especially the people who have demonstrated repeatedly that they know NOTHING about chickens? I don't get it...

 

[phaethona]

I will admit, this is my family's 1st year with chickens and there's a lot we don't know, but...

sitting on the deck last night, DH pointed out our partridge rock hen who is (due to her breed) bigger than the others

dh: I bet ya we have a rooster.

me: no we don't.

dh: but look at her, why is she so big? (note he said "her" and "she")

me: her breed is larger than the other girls

dh: well I think she's a rooster.

me: dear, roosters don't lay eggs

dh: how do you know?

edited to say: now I can't speak from experience, because I've never had roosters, but I'm pretty confident they don't lay eggs