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

[RichnSteph]

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!)....................
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I think he might have had a little too much kibble and beer himself.

Yeah that guy needs to stay away from beer, dog food, chickens and heavy equipment. Probably in that order.

 

[Naliez]

Yeah that guy needs to stay away from beer, dog food, chickens and heavy equipment. Probably in that order.

Could probably add breeding to that list as well. Lol

 

[chicbaby]

bigmgr, sounds like a red flag to me about whether or not you want to be part of that family. the apple doesnt fall far from the tree, as i have learned from sad experience. maybe dating someone who is more in line with your lifestyle would be better. people get more paranoid the older they get, not less.

 

[bigmrg74]

bigmgr, sounds like a red flag to me about whether or not you want to be part of that family. the apple doesnt fall far from the tree, as i have learned from sad experience. maybe dating someone who is more in line with your lifestyle would be better. people get more paranoid the older they get, not less.

Given that she just left the house here after having some French toast made with my girls's eggs and loves to watch the chickens, I'm not too worried about her. Heck, I even talked her into going to the Michigan Chickenstock this summer, and some of the old biddies there were clucking away about how we were playing Village Girl and Stable Boy.

 

[bigmrg74]

So the Marines are training Ducks.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=821706434543999

 

[shelby h]

So the Marines are training Ducks.   

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=821706434543999

Am I going to be rickrolled if I click your link? Lol

 

[ChippieChicken]

Not so much dumb as it is an "if I had a nickel for every time" sort of thing:

So, I've fallen in love with my new turkens and love to show off pictures of them. Well, invariably the other person asks "Oh no, what happened to/who's been picking on that poor chicken?" Which then gives me an opportunity to talk up Naked Necks to people who never knew there was such a breed. But man, if I had a nickel for every time someone asked me what was wrong with that chicken . . .

But the dumbest thing I ever heard people say about chickens: Chickens are stupid animals. (Not saying some individuals aren't a little thinking-impaired. But seeing how easily they outwit people, where on the scale does that put humans?)

 

[shelby h]

But the dumbest thing I ever heard people say about chickens: Chickens are stupid animals. (Not saying some individuals aren't a little thinking-impaired. But seeing how easily they outwit people, where on the scale does that put humans?)

Chickens are crafty little buggers! Ours did a concerted escape effort because one odd them wanted to see what was on the other side of the fence. Only the one went through the hole they dug. The other three scattered the moment she went under. They full well knew what they were doing, pretending to scratch for worms!

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

Oh yeah, I've heard that one about chickens being stupid! And sure there's the odd one who's not that bright, but...uh...cough cough...people are like that too ;-) and everything else...

 

[JadedPhoenix]

When I got my first egg, from my EE, it felt so solid that I mistook it for one of the fake eggs I'd put in the nest box. Something about it didn't seem right, so I don't know why, but I tapped it pretty hard on the edge of the coop a couple of times. No crack or anything, so I thought, "well, I guess it is one of the fake eggs." I set it down and finished cleaning. I picked it up to put it back in the nest box and realized, "hey, this egg is light green and all of my fake eggs are brown!" I was astounded by how thick the shell on that egg was. It took two hard wacks against the side of a bowl to crack it open when I finally ate it. I'm still amazed by how much harder it is to crack one of my girl's eggs than a store egg.

That is my husband's only complaint about my eggs, that the shells are so thick. I actually precrack his eggs for him and put them in a tupperware container so that he can fix them after he wakes up in the morning since I work nights and usually not home when he is ready for breakfast. Everytime he cracks them for himself he is frustrated that he gets shells in his eggs. Of course he is cracking them on the side of the tupperware container when he tries and I crack them on the granite couters.