Dumbest thing youve heard someone say about chickens or Farm animals ?

[feliciamckee]

I made my kids some "egg in a bread" this morning. (A piece of light bread with a hole cut in middle...crack the egg in the center of hole and fry in butter) It was the first time they have had eggs from our new hen.

After eating 3, my 8 year old daughter said, "Did these come from Ginger"?

"Yes", I said.

She said, " Oh no! I thought they were REAL eggs!"

I said "They ARE real eggs from a REAL chicken. What did you think REAL eggs were?"

She said "REAL eggs come from the STORE!!!"

 

[kagedgoddess]

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Just tell her you keep them cooped on saturday nights and dont allow them on facebook, therefore they have no "life" haha

 

[equinehugger3]

I ALWAYS get the "Ew! You EAT the eggs?! Why would you eat a baby chicken?"

 

[DuckLover179]

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I get that, but with ducks. (Even after I explain how I don't have a male, so they aren't fertile!)

 

[SilverPhoenix]

I realize that not everyone is so educated about chickens, but it still amazes me that so many people think that "banties" are a breed. I've tried to explain the difference to some of these people, but they don't seem to get it. Oh well!

My cousin (who is in law school) posted a picture of some silkies on her Facebook, with the caption "hairy chickens." I still haven't gotten over that.

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Yes, this! It's not that amazing, seriously. I tell them apart because they look different. And I remember their names because I see them every day.

 

[FarmCoe]

Some people just don't know poultry.... Once, somebody thought my guinea fowl was a baby turkey.

 

[terrilhb]

When I was hatching guinea's I had people that thought guinea pigs were going to hatch out of the eggs.

I had to explain to them. 3 were kids and 1 was an adult.

 

[mangled]

One of the nurses where my husband worked, wanted to see a dozen eggs he had brought in for another co-worker. He gladly obliged, and showed her a nice dozen with white, brown and blue eggs. She was fascinated by the different colors. She asked where the brown eggs come from, and my husband, the smart alec that he is, tells her, oh those our from our African chickens. She was amazed and asked about our blue eggs and he told her those came from Oriental chickens. He then told her the white ones were from European chickens.

She was so fascinated by this she had to become a fresh egg customer. She bought 3 dozen a month for a long time. She kept telling everyone we had designer eggs. LOL

My husband no longer works there, but I wonder if she still believes what he told her. He's so bad.


Blessings-
Em

 

[luvkigers]

My husband takes fresh eggs into work. We have americauna and aracauna hens so lots of colored eggs. One of his co-workers wanted to take out the "bad" eggs.. he thought the ones that were colored, turned green because they were bad... We had a good laugh.

 

[Nambroth]

Our neighbors have been watching us build our coop and run for the last month. While on a walk with her daughter, the lady neighbor asked if we were building a house for our parrots (they know we have indoor parrots), which I grinned and replied, no, it's a coop for our new chickens. Wanting to keep on the friendly side with our neighbors (especially since it looks like I have an accidental rooster...) I told her that they were a few months away from laying, but once they were old enough, would she like some fresh eggs if we have extras? She seemed tentatively curious and we got to talking about them, and I was explaining that they were still baby chicks (at the time less than a month old) and described how big they were by miming their size with my hands.
Her next question:

"Oh, so they are laying tiny eggs now right? Their eggs must have been really tiny when they were first born!"

I really had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing at her! She was totally serious. I had to explain to her (again) that they couldn't lay eggs until they hit reproductive maturity. She seemed confused by that! I didn't go into more detail since her preschool age daughter was there and getting antsy...