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

[Bantambird]

My daughter, who is 7, is found talking about her turkeys in class often. The other children are mortified that she eats some of the chickens and turkeys that we raise throughout the year, and yet they themselves eat Kentucky Fried Chicken and a fat turkey for holidays every year.

 

[microchick]

Oh come on guy, lighten up about the age thing already. I turned 63 this week.

In your 60s doesn't equate the age with senility nor is it an excuse for stupidity or ignorance. The latter happens at any age.

Educate people who say stupid things about chickens. We are their best ambassadors and advocates. They can't speak for themselves.

 

[chickendreams24]

So we have some black split and lavender Orpington chicks for sale along with some silkies and some Rocks (silver pencilled roo over partridge hens)

I got a text asking what we had available and answered the potential customer with all the details including that the day old chicks are straight run and what straight run means.

Their reply astounded me! "Them black ones'll lay eggs then huh?
Any other ones that'll lay eggs?"

Okay so they never mentioned the lavender chicks and I believe they thought I was pulling their leg on the color. That being said I held my cool and mentioned that any of the breeds I mentioned will lay eggs after they're grown as long as they're females. I also mentioned that even silkies lay a perfectly edible egg that's just smaller in size.

Haven't heard back from them since. I thought I handled it very well but perhaps not. Lol.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My daughter, who is 7, is found talking about her turkeys in class often. The other children are mortified that she eats some of the chickens and turkeys that we raise throughout the year, and yet they themselves eat Kentucky Fried Chicken and a fat turkey for holidays every year.

And has he mentioned that his does not have the pump of
additives to keep it from going bad on them

 

[7 Biddies]

Oh come on guy, lighten up about the age thing already. I turned 63 this week.   In your 60s doesn't equate the age with senility nor is it an excuse for stupidity or ignorance. The latter happens at any age. 

Educate people who say stupid things about chickens. We are their best ambassadors and advocates. They can't speak for themselves.

Ahhhhh, youth. To be 60 again. I turned 70 in Feb, am still working ferreting out why little Johnny or Susie can't read, and broke both ankles in the past year attempting to garden on the mountainside where I live. I tear through the halls on my knee scooter, with jealous kids begging for a turn. "Ha Ha! Not in this lifetime. Get your own, kid!"

I'm supposed to retire at the end of the upcoming school year, but am frightened by the idea. So, you haven't any idea what old is, yet. Neither do I, but I've gotten closer since breaking the ankles - plus, dislocated the first one. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?

Like Bette Davis said, "Growing old ain't for sissies."

 

[microchick]

7 Biddies.......

We sound like we were separated at birth....7 years apart, LOL. I too refuse to age gracefully. I trail ride with my dirtbike, split wood by hand and this past Saturday I told my husband as he drove me home from the ER after getting 6 stitches in my forearm, I cannot stop being me. I cannot sit in the house and watch my 'stories' and read romance novels. I have to be outside, grabbing life with both hands and hanging on to for dear life. My husband just chuckled. He understands me. His only reply. 'I get that. Can you just try not to beat yourself up too bad while you are enjoying life?"

I promised him I would try. Buy it won't be easy.

So all you whipper snapper who are under 55. When you have your 60th birthday, you will understand. Being in your 60s isn't being old. Old is a state of mind.

 

[junebuggena]

So, we just acquired some meat rabbit breeding stock. My husband's been talking about them with co-workers. One person was astounded that we intend to kill and eat the babies, once old enough. Oddly enough, it's not the killing the rabbit part he had a hard time with, it's the eating of the meat! The guy hunts deer and elk. And admits that he frequently shoots rabbits for target practice. But eating them is crossing the line, apparently.

 

[pennyJo1960]

So, we just acquired some meat rabbit breeding stock. My husband's been talking about them with co-workers. One person was astounded that we intend to kill and eat the babies, once old enough. Oddly enough, it's not the killing the rabbit part he had a hard time with, it's the eating of the meat! The guy hunts deer and elk. And admits that he frequently shoots rabbits for target practice. But eating them is crossing the line, apparently.

Good grief you got to be kidding

 

[WPFarmstead]

And admits that he frequently shoots rabbits for target practice. But eating them is crossing the line, apparently. 

So...he just wastes that meat? Seriously?

 

[lazy gardener]

So, we just acquired some meat rabbit breeding stock. My husband's been talking about them with co-workers. One person was astounded that we intend to kill and eat the babies, once old enough. Oddly enough, it's not the killing the rabbit part he had a hard time with, it's the eating of the meat! The guy hunts deer and elk. And admits that he frequently shoots rabbits for target practice. But eating them is crossing the line, apparently.

That is the most disgusting thing I've heard in a very long time. Kill them for dog food, ok. Eat them, ok. Shoot them cause they are eating your broccoli. Ok, then serve them up with a side dish of broccoli. But target practice on a living animal? Wasteful, inhumane, criminal.