Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[sunflour]

I never thought of coffee and reading material and watching...I just stand ands stare at them, and they look at me like I am invading their privacy.

I am glad to here you EE eggs were small. We call them our large Robin eggs they are so small.



BTW one barred rock was a very bad little girl last night. I lock the birds up right after dark. They have a covered run they can go into if they want out real early. I let them out to free range around 9:30 each morning after I have gotten most the eggs. This morning I am enjoying my coffee and the bad little Barred Rock is walking down the driveway. Obviously she did not go into the coop last night! Bad Girl!

Glad she wasn't a predator's meal.

 

[7 Biddies]

I never thought of coffee and reading material and watching...I just stand ands stare at them, and they look at me like I am invading their privacy.

I am glad to here you EE eggs were small. We call them our large Robin eggs they are so small.



BTW one barred rock was a very bad little girl last night. I lock the birds up right after dark. They have a covered run they can go into if they want out real early. I let them out to free range around 9:30 each morning after I have gotten most the eggs. This morning I am enjoying my coffee and the bad little Barred Rock is walking down the driveway. Obviously she did not go into the coop last night! Bad Girl!

Give the EEs time ... their egg size will increase. OBVIOUSLY! But, I can't promise you'll have any the size of the one I got yesterday. Needless to say, she didn't produce an egg today. Probably still a little sore from the humongous one.

I have the Pullet Shut automatic door for my girls. They go in way before it closes 99.9% of the time. However, because of the rain yesterday, it got dark earlier than usual and the door must've closed unexpectedly. After dark, I heard a racket coming from their run and checked to see what the problem was. Two of the little stinkers got themselves locked out of the hen house and were screaming at their sisters to let them in. I turned on the light in the hen house, then opened the pop door with the magnet that's provided for such purposes. The "tardy twosome" ran right inside and went to bed, and I closed the door behind them. When I let them free range during the day, I've seen them out in the driveway, and looked up from reading to see one dancing through the neighbor's yard. Fortunately, I haven't lost any yet.

 

[Outpost JWB]

In the summer, some of my chickens fly over the fence into my neighbor's yard. Thought they would be mad, but turns out they love them and feed them scraps. They even tell their friends that those (5 or so) chickens are "their chickens"

. Lucky to have such good neighbors!

 

[duluthralphie]

In the summer, some of my chickens fly over the fence into my neighbor's yard. Thought they would be mad, but turns out they love them and feed them scraps. They even tell their friends that those (5 or so) chickens are "their chickens"

. Lucky to have such good neighbors!

That's great!

Neighbors like that would be handy for taking care of the chickens if you had to go away overnight.

I have no neighbors around mine, just wildlife which I would prefer to not have.

We have 2 homes on our farm. My Mother has lifetime rights to live in the one home. She is 84 and winters in Florida, when she is here in the summer she loves the chickens, feeding them scraps of food all day long. She does complain when the turkeys roost on her deck, but it is not a serious complaint, I just tell her they are visiting and want to talk.

 

[7 Biddies]

In the summer, some of my chickens fly over the fence into my neighbor's yard. Thought they would be mad, but turns out they love them and feed them scraps. They even tell their friends that those (5 or so) chickens are "their chickens"

. Lucky to have such good neighbors!

My neighbors like my chickens, too. There are only (and will ever be) 6 houses on my street, and I've cozied up to everyone with cartons of eggs. So, everyone here enjoys the girls ... they say seeing them in my yard (most of the time) just adds to the country feel. Not having any roosters to wake them up at O dark 30 helps, too.

 

[Ibicella]

I can't believe I'm back on this thread with a new one.

So, someone asked me a rabbit husbandry question about flipping them over on their backs and "trancing" or "hypnotizing" them (technically called tonic immobility) is harmful or not. Apparently there is some misinformation floating around the 'net that it's abusive to do this and rabbits only go into TI when they are scared. I said no, it isn't true. I've bred and raised and rescued rabbits off and on for 25 years and studied biology in college years ago with...you guessed it, rabbits. We had a whole section on tonic immobility in prey animals like rabbits, rodents, chickens, and so on.

So someone else tried to argue with me about it, claimed it was abuse and the rabbits are actually scared to death when you do that and it can kill them (Which is total bull unless there is some freak accident) and her "scientific proof" was some little article written by a couple of vet tech students about some project they did measuring corticosterone and a few other vitals while inducing TI. The rabbits showed that they had been stressed by the corticosterone levels and vital statistic feedback.They came to the conclusion that putting them into tonic immobility was terrifying for the rabbits.

They used all of six rabbits, and there was no information about other outside factors that might contribute to the animals stress...like whether or not these sample rabbits were pets or lab animals or whether they were used to being handled at all.

So...this thing she sent me basically told me nothing about how these students could verify that the rabbit's stress levels were due to the TI and not from other factor. I pointed out the obvious that rabbits are nervous little critters by nature, and a lot of stuff can stress them out. It's not like I can speak rabbit and they can't speak human languages, so I can't tell them, "Now don't you worry, I just need to put you on your back for a few minutes to clip your nails."

...here it comes...

She determined she was right and I really didn't know what I was talking about because I don't speak rabbit.

I just...wow.

 

[N F C]

Wow. Maybe she should make like a rabbit and be very quiet.

 

[chicksurreal]

I can't believe I'm back on this thread with a new one.

So, someone asked me a rabbit husbandry question about flipping them over on their backs and "trancing" or "hypnotizing" them (technically called tonic immobility) is harmful or not. Apparently there is some misinformation floating around the 'net that it's abusive to do this and rabbits only go into TI when they are scared. I said no, it isn't true. I've bred and raised and rescued rabbits off and on for 25 years and studied biology in college years ago with...you guessed it, rabbits. We had a whole section on tonic immobility in prey animals like rabbits, rodents, chickens, and so on.

So someone else tried to argue with me about it, claimed it was abuse and the rabbits are actually scared to death when you do that and it can kill them (Which is total bull unless there is some freak accident) and her "scientific proof" was some little article written by a couple of vet tech students about some project they did measuring corticosterone and a few other vitals while inducing TI. The rabbits showed that they had been stressed by the corticosterone levels and vital statistic feedback.They came to the conclusion that putting them into tonic immobility was terrifying for the rabbits.

They used all of six rabbits, and there was no information about other outside factors that might contribute to the animals stress...like whether or not these sample rabbits were pets or lab animals or whether they were used to being handled at all.

So...this thing she sent me basically told me nothing about how these students could verify that the rabbit's stress levels were due to the TI and not from other factor. I pointed out the obvious that rabbits are nervous little critters by nature, and a lot of stuff can stress them out. It's not like I can speak rabbit and they can't speak human languages, so I can't tell them, "Now don't you worry, I just need to put you on your back for a few minutes to clip your nails."

...here it comes...

She determined she was right and I really didn't know what I was talking about because I don't speak rabbit.

I just...wow.

Maybe Rosetta Stone offers a language course in "Rabbit". Lol!

People...

 

[N F C]

 

[oldrooster]

Quote:
Perhaps you should pull out your communicator call Scotty to beam down Mr. Spock and have him do a mind meld, or even more simply do a Vulcan nerve pinch on each rabbit to knock it out safely....