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

[Kiki]

... Also, a couple weeks ago some strange guy walked up my road & was staring into my yard. Its a private cul-de-sac so DH went out there to tell him he was trespassing. The guy said he lived down the street about a 1/2 block away & that we had a rooster that was driving him insane. DH was very specific & told him that we had hens, but no roosters. He also told the guy, "If you live in the house you say you do, you have roosters living in the houses on BOTH sides of you AND the house across the street from you." Get this ... They guy then says, "No those roosters are all quiet... Its YOUR rooster that's bothering me!"

Idiot!
lol

 

[room onthebroom]

LOL too funny about your husband and the speech!! I'd love to see their faces!

As to the lady, wow how rude! To think that she could just take one of YOUR chickens for soup... like helloooooo, go buy it from the store, lady! Or find a local place that actually sells meat birds if you want farm raised or free range or whatever. You don't just go up to someone and ask to have a chicken for soup... especially if you only had 3 at the time. Common sense, to me at least, would imply that they were A. Pets or B. For eggs and you don't get that many as it is with only 3 chickens let alone if she takes one and leaves you with only 2.... shes dumb as a bag of bricks lol sorry

That's what I thought too, dumb & rude! Just for perspective, I told a few people who live in the city, who have no farm-sense & have never even seen a chicken before & they all said shes crazy as a loon.

 

[ShrekDawg]

... Also, a couple weeks ago some strange guy walked up my road & was staring into my yard. Its a private cul-de-sac so DH went out there to tell him he was trespassing. The guy said he lived down the street about a 1/2 block away & that we had a rooster that was driving him insane. DH was very specific & told him that we had hens, but no roosters. He also told the guy, "If you live in the house you say you do, you have roosters living in the houses on BOTH sides of you AND the house across the street from you." Get this ... They guy then says, "No those roosters are all quiet... Its YOUR rooster that's bothering me!"    

Wow you sure have some crazy neighbors! Lol and you dont have any loud hens or anything? Guarantee it's the 3 roosters though lol especially since they probably crow more to compete with each other since there's other roos around. That guy is a dummy lol although sound does travel, sometimes when the dog barks i think he's in the woods and he's just in the backyard or inside

That's what I thought too, dumb & rude! Just for perspective, I told a few people who live in the city, who have no farm-sense & have never even seen a chicken before & they all said shes crazy as a loon.

Exactly! Absolutely ridiculous. Andnglad others agree haha

 

[room onthebroom]

Idiot!
lol

My neighbors are really out there! I only have one decent, normal neighbor & even he thinks I'm trying to give him cholesterol poisoning when we give him eggs. I keep telling him that eggs got a bad rap & didn't he see the commercial a few years ago where they let the cartoon egg out of prison... (sigh!) Now we just give the eggs to people who get really excited by them.

 

[hensareus]

Question? Have never used golf balls before . Chickens can't read (or I'd show them the feed Bill

. Does the lettering make any difference. I like the one that says range on it.

 

[Krazyquilts]

We were given a week-old Holstein bull calf once. (The boys - ages 10, 8 and 5) named him Butch. "Because we're gonna butcher him anyway, Mom." This animal was the only bovine on our farm. The other large animals were horses. Butch thought he was a horse. Or a dog. (My mom has a picture of him and the dog curled up together next to the back step. We were gone, he'd gotten out. Again.) Whenever we'd take the horses out riding, that animal would break through any fence we had him in - electric, barbed wire, even wood - to follow us. Sometimes we'd get away fast enough he couldn't find us. Other times, he'd come bellering down the road after us. "MOOoooOOOoooo!" (It wouldn't have been so bad if we could have gotten him in front of us to look like we were herding him home. Nope! Ran right behind us the whole way. Pretty sure we caused a few cases of whiplash when we had cars go by.) The time finally came when he was to live up to his name. We sent him off to the butcher shop. My aunt said, "How can you eat him?" I told her, "When I think of how many fences I had to fix, he tastes better and better!"

That is hilarious!! I read the whole story to my husband and he thought it was really funny too.

My husband grew up on a very poorly managed pig farm. In high school, he was often woken up in the middle of the night to help build a pen for a sow that was giving birth right that very second - a sow his father would had known was pregnant for months beforehand but wouldn't do anything to prepare ahead time. Needless to say, my husband is not fond of pigs and always tells people how much he loves bacon/pork/etc, "because that meant a pig had to die." Hope he gets over it because I want to have a couple pigs when we have our farm.

 

[bobbi-j]

That is hilarious!! I read the whole story to my husband and he thought it was really funny too.

My husband grew up on a very poorly managed pig farm. In high school, he was often woken up in the middle of the night to help build a pen for a sow that was giving birth right that very second - a sow his father would had known was pregnant for months beforehand but wouldn't do anything to prepare ahead time. Needless to say, my husband is not fond of pigs and always tells people how much he loves bacon/pork/etc, "because that meant a pig had to die." Hope he gets over it because I want to have a couple pigs when we have our farm.

Speaking of pigs and dumbest things people say, it's confession time. I was raised in a Mpls. suburb. When I was 18, I married a farmer and started the process of becoming a country girl. We had neighbors who raised pigs. Occasionally, we'd go help them load pigs into a trailer. One of the first times of helping, I asked our neighbor where the pigs went after we got them loaded. He said, "To market." He sensed that I didn't know quite what that meant and further explained, "You know - 'this little piggy went to MARKET,"? I gasped, "Is THAT what that means???" He and my husband laughed so hard they almost had to pick themselves up off the ground.

 

[WVduckchick]

Thanks for the laughs, all of you! Oh my side!

 

[cutiechook1]

I actually never knew that either!!!!! Wow! That is hilarious!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Speaking of pigs and dumbest things people say, it's confession time. I was raised in a Mpls. suburb. When I was 18, I married a farmer and started the process of becoming a country girl. We had neighbors who raised pigs. Occasionally, we'd go help them load pigs into a trailer. One of the first times of helping, I asked our neighbor where the pigs went after we got them loaded. He said, "To market." He sensed that I didn't know quite what that meant and further explained, "You know - 'this little piggy went to MARKET,"? I gasped, "Is THAT what that means???" He and my husband laughed so hard they almost had to pick themselves up off the ground.