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

[7 Biddies]

We used to have 4 techs in the department I work in, 3 of us (me female, the other 2 were male) all made around the same amount of money, we all have at least an associates degree, the other tech, is a female with 2 kids out of wedlock, and I KNOW she has no college education and I have heard she doesn't have high school or GED either, she complains that we make more than her and that it is wrong that we make more just because we have more education and that she couldn't possibly go back to school because of her kids.... somehow I don't think that's my problem... She should have thought about the rest of her life before she made those decisions...

I once walked into a conversation between the maintenance guy and the book keeper (the latter had a HS diploma, but the maintenance guy did not) complaining about teachers earning more than them, "just because they have a piece of paper". I explained the facts of life about what it took for them to GET that piece of paper and asked why they, too, didn't do it.

<crickets chirping>

 

[7 Biddies]

I had a friend who wanted to try some eggs that were not from the store. She had heard about how much better non-commercial eggs were. I gave her a half dozen eggs to give them a try. I Asked her a week later how they were. She said that she ended up throwing them out becuase they were bad. Upon further discussion it came out she was under the impression that an egg with really yellow yoke was bad. and these eggs I gave her must have been really old becuase the yoke was orange.

I never gave her another egg.

What amazes me is that people act on wild assumptions without checking first. That woman had several choices of what she could do before finally deciding you unloaded your bad eggs on her: 1) ask you about the color of the yolks to see if it was normal, and 2) LOOK IT UP! Has she never heard of Google?

e.g. A cute dog showed up on my street last week. She was obviously very young, and was wearing a red collar, plus a flea collar. She hung around all day and night, and wouldn't go home. My neighbor immediately "decided" that someone must have just dropped her off, abandoning her. Therefore, she would make a bed in the garage for the dog and feed her. I suggested she put the dog in the bed of their truck and drive around the neighborhood to see if she could find her home. That elicited a laugh like it was the dumbest thing she'd ever heard.

When I asked why she thought the dog had been "dumped", she said because it was the only thing she could think of. And, *I'm* the one with the stupid idea????

PS On the second day, the dog was gone. I'm hoping her owners came looking for her and she heard them call.

 

[oldrooster]

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I worked with a woman who liked to whine and cry like that too about her abusive husband, (when HE divorced HER she got a boyfriend of the same variety) and other stuff and how life was cheating her. like she was on birth control and ended up pregnant because she wasn't bright enough to tell the staff at the ER that she was on birth control and they gave her an anti-biotic (they can neutralize birth control) and she ended up pregnant. And she claimed it was all the hospital's fault. I told her I went thru the same sex ed that she did provided by the local school system and I knew that an anti-biotic among other things can keep birth control from working right and as a boy if I remember ed that (since to my knowledge there is no pill or shot to keep me from getting a girl pregnant) she should have known that too, if not more due to being the gender that can use it. She said that I was mean for pointing out her stupidity.

 

[oldrooster]

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My dad grew up on a farm with chickens, as did his older siblings (he was the baby) his older sister was visiting us here in Indiana from California after several decades off the farm for each, my dad was getting eggs from a family near us. Aunty couldn't figure out why all of our eggs looked like they where bad since she knew we used several every week. my dad had to explain to her the difference between store bought and home grown eggs. BTW she was a natural blonde.

 

[7 Biddies]

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Well, that explains everything. After all; she had a reputation to uphold.

 

[duluthralphie]

What amazes me is that people act on wild assumptions without checking first. That woman had several choices of what she could do before finally deciding you unloaded your bad eggs on her: 1) ask you about the color of the yolks to see if it was normal, and 2) LOOK IT UP! Has she never heard of Google?

e.g. A cute dog showed up on my street last week. She was obviously very young, and was wearing a red collar, plus a flea collar. She hung around all day and night, and wouldn't go home. My neighbor immediately "decided" that someone must have just dropped her off, abandoning her. Therefore, she would make a bed in the garage for the dog and feed her. I suggested she put the dog in the bed of their truck and drive around the neighborhood to see if she could find her home. That elicited a laugh like it was the dumbest thing she'd ever heard.

When I asked why she thought the dog had been "dumped", she said because it was the only thing she could think of. And, *I'm* the one with the stupid idea????

PS On the second day, the dog was gone. I'm hoping her owners came looking for her and she heard them call.

Many many years ago we "lost" a cat like that!

We lived on acreage in a very rural area of northern MN. We had 40 acres. There was a house just into the next 40 over. It was a small rental home. We had a calico cat. She had a bright pink collar. We let her out and did not see her again.

We assumed she was killed by something. Our kids were heart broken. About 6 months later our cat came home. Our kids were all excited. They told all the other kids on the school bus. Our kids were telling everyone how amazing it was that Popeye had come home.

The kids in the rental home told our kids they had the cat, they thought it was a stray and lost. They had kept it in the house so it would not get lost again and the cat had slipped out when one of them had left the door open. I have never understood why you would lock up an animal that wanders onto your property thinking it could not find it's way home..

 

[sunflour]

Before we got our chickens, I had noticed for years how boiled eggs floated in the water instead of sinking - which is what I remembered from my youth. Most folks to whom I commented on the observation thought I was being ridiculous. I did google and found that the bought eggs were old….When my girls started to lay, it was so eggciting to finally have eggs that sink and not float.

Friends who have gotten used to our egg gifts are pouting because of lowered egg production in our first molt…

But they are laying enough for me.

 

[7 Biddies]

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Oh boy. That's a hot button for me; the abuse of the word *mean*. "Oh boo-hoo, you're holding me accountable for my actions. You're MEAN!" No wonder her husband/boyfriend were abusive. I'd want to hurt her, too.

 

[sunflour]

Yep, because anytime you do anything that anyone might disagree with it's either racist or sexist...

That has become the new American standard hasn't it?

Some employers are afraid of firing anyone. We had an employee who actively tried to get fired and it worked. When she applied for unemployment, she found that she did not qualify because she was fired. If she had quit, she would have had a paid vacation until her benefits ran out. She did get a hearing and with documentation, that was the end of the issue.

 

[7 Biddies]

Before we got our chickens, I had noticed for years how boiled eggs floated in the water instead of sinking - which is what I remembered from my youth. Most folks to whom I commented on the observation thought I was being ridiculous. I did google and found that the bought eggs were old….When my girls started to lay, it was so eggciting to finally have eggs that sink and not float.

Friends who have gotten used to our egg gifts are pouting because of lowered egg production in our first molt…

But they are laying enough for me.

This is exactly what drove me to spend a small fortune on my chicken habit; I couldn't buy the quality, organic, truly free-ranged eggs I wanted all the time because sometimes there were only enough for the chicken keeper. It became almost impossible to buy them in the winter, so i got my own. Now, my neighbors are getting their eggs for free (I won't charge them) even now that the days are short and cold. My current flock is new and the girls are laying machines!!!