God, if that lady would only watch how fast a free range chicken would be all over a grasshopper. Hunny, the girls gotta get their protein for those yummy eggs somehow.
organic eggs don't have enough gmos?I have a friend who can't eat organic eggs, so she started buying mine instead of someone else's (YES!)
luckily, i haven't had anyone say anything dumb about my chickens... yet.
I had a little old lady tell me that when she was a girl, she used to "catch the eggs" when the hens laid them, and she'd get to watch those egg shells "harden up" as she held them. No way could I convince her that wasn't possible. When faced with such "unarguable facts", the better part of valor is just to smile, and respond, "Wow!" and move on to an other subject!
I had a guy ask how many eggs I was getting from my chickens a day. I told him "None. They're 10 weeks old." He informed me (quite condescendingly I might add) that I was obviously not only an amateur, (which I am) but also very "out of touch with reality" for believing in, and feeding them commercial starter crumbles, which are actually designed to delay laying in chickens, so that you have to keep buying MORE from the companies that make the chicken feed. His proof? He has always had ALL of his hens lay 2-3 eggs per DAY by 10 weeks of age by feeding them dog food and a little beer. (Not enough to get them drunk of course; that'd be crazy!)....................
