Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

[melfield67]

Two stories here, not directly about chickens, but certainly the ignorance of some:

1) Here is Cheyenne we have a very large rodeo / music festival every year. One year, my hubby was in the stands watching the rodeo and he overheard a man behind him tell his wife "See those little ones? Those are female bulls".

Um.... no, they are steers, castrated males. And this is where the steak you will eat for dinner comes from, too.

2) On a veggie gardening forum there once was a poster who kept asking, "is the stuff I grow safe if the cat once peed in the dirt" or "if there was old lead paint on a building two blocks away" or "if I used Roundup once near the garden". After two weeks of answering her questions, she finally admitted that her husband wanted a garden but she was just simply grossed out by anything that grew out of dirt.

Wow.

 

[junebuggena]

Two stories here, not directly about chickens, but certainly the ignorance of some:

1) Here is Cheyenne we have a very large rodeo / music festival every year. One year, my hubby was in the stands watching the rodeo and he overheard a man behind him tell his wife "See those little ones? Those are female bulls".

Um.... no, they are steers, castrated males. And this is where the steak you will eat for dinner comes from, too.

2) On a veggie gardening forum there once was a poster who kept asking, "is the stuff I grow safe if the cat once peed in the dirt" or "if there was old lead paint on a building two blocks away" or "if I used Roundup once near the garden". After two weeks of answering her questions, she finally admitted that her husband wanted a garden but she was just simply grossed out by anything that grew out of dirt.

Wow.

On #2, the poor thing is probably starving, since just about every single fruit, vegetable, and grain on the planet grew out of dirt...

 

[ChickenLover200]

 
Two stories here, not directly about chickens, but certainly the ignorance of some:

1)  Here is Cheyenne we have a very large rodeo / music festival every year.  One year, my hubby was in the stands watching the rodeo and he overheard a man behind him tell his wife "See those little ones?  Those are female bulls". 

Um.... no, they are steers, castrated males.  And this is where the steak you will eat for dinner comes from, too.

2)  On a veggie gardening forum there once was a poster who kept asking, "is the stuff I grow safe if the cat once peed in the dirt" or "if there was old lead paint on a building two blocks away" or "if I used Roundup once near the garden".  After two weeks of answering her questions, she finally admitted that her husband wanted a garden but she was just simply grossed out by anything that grew out of dirt. 

Wow.

On #2, the poor thing is probably starving, since just about every single fruit, vegetable, and grain on the planet grew out of dirt...

 

[chiques chicks]

I must be a seafood tarian..
I see food and eat it

Same here

 

[chiques chicks]

Two stories here, not directly about chickens, but certainly the ignorance of some:

1)  Here is Cheyenne we have a very large rodeo / music festival every year.  One year, my hubby was in the stands watching the rodeo and he overheard a man behind him tell his wife "See those little ones?  Those are female bulls". 

Um.... no, they are steers, castrated males.  And this is where the steak you will eat for dinner comes from, too.

2)  On a veggie gardening forum there once was a poster who kept asking, "is the stuff I grow safe if the cat once peed in the dirt" or "if there was old lead paint on a building two blocks away" or "if I used Roundup once near the garden".  After two weeks of answering her questions, she finally admitted that her husband wanted a garden but she was just simply grossed out by anything that grew out of dirt. 

Wow.

Had a wife like that. Wouldn't eat the " nasty stuff " I grew. Preferred the stuff in bags and boxes.

Many people I work with won't eat my chickens eggs. They aren't white and all the same size like the store bought. And they taste different.

 

[dekel18042]

Many people I work with won't eat my chickens eggs. They aren't white and all the same size like the store bought. And they taste different.

Throw in green and blue and olive and terra cotta and ink and speckled and you have real fun Then add in a bantam egg or two and a duck egg.

 

[ChickenLover200]

Reaction from someone who bought a dozen of jumbo eggs from me with two bantam eggs thrown in: I don't pay for **** bird eggs.

Why don't you go eat some fish eggs then, cuz last I checked, chickens are birds

 

[allosaurusrock]

What I hate is the stupidity of people not understanding how chickens can be more than stupid animals you eat. Whenever my birds get sick people tell me "Just eat it." It makes me so mad, because every single one of my birds have names, and are probably the only thing that's keeping me from being depressed as a hormonal teenager. Ugh!

 

[ChickenLover200]

There's a chance, too of getting sick from a sick chicken. My chickens have names too (including roosters). My grandmother wants to fatten the roosters up and kill them. NO WAY!

 

[allosaurusrock]

And then they get all "I could never kill an animal!" when you do have to put one out of its misery.