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

[Minchi]

Yay, another geek!(no offense, it's a good thing. Greeting your chicken with nevermore puts ya in the club.). I've got an EE named Annabelle Lee and a Naked Neck named Gollum (she likes to try and eat rings). *GEEK POWA, IN DA HOUSE*

LOL, Well she is named Zoe because she is a brown coat (she is dark brown) so I can hardly deny it.

 

[RunnerChick]

OMG, I was telling a lady at work the other day that I'll be getting chickens this summer and plan to have lots and lots of eggs. I told her I'd bring some in for her so that she can taste how much better they are.

Know what she said?

Her: "Oh my GAWD, eeeeeewwwwww, I could never eat those eggs!"

Me: "Ummmm, why not?

Her: "Well, BECAUSE, they came out of a chicken's butt!"

Me: "Ummmmm. Huh? You eat eggs from the store, right?"

Her: "Well, yeah, of COURSE, but that's different!"

Me: "How is that different? Those eggs also came out of a chicken."

Her: "But those are all sanitary and come in a box."

Me: "I'll wash my eggs and box them for you too."

Her: "Blech, no way. I could never eat eggs from your chickens. That's just gross."

Me: "***?"

[Erica walks away shaking head]


WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!

LOL, this is just too much. No wonder I want to quit my job and become a pioneer woman and never have to leave the house...

Unfortunately, this is a huge problem with the urbanization of society. People no longer have an understanding, and therefore respect, for where their food comes from. If they can't imagine killing an animal to eat, perhaps they should consider vegetarianism. Killing them is part of eating them. Hamburger comes from cows, chicken comes from chickens, and eggs ALL come from a chicken's vent. I believe there are lots of true benefits to the humans and the chickens of keeping them and eating their eggs.

I live in a rural area and have encountered lots of these misconceptions, despite most people being surrounded by farms. The best we can do as chicken owners is be ambassadors for the local food movement, and educate the people that are willing to listen. Not everyone will, but I think we have to try. It's important for the health of generations to come.

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Hey, me and my Naked Necks are taking a boat to a world where weird chickens are accepted. You want a ride?

I really want some Frizzled Naked Necks, that'll throw em for a loop.

Or a frizzle, silkied, crested, five-toed, feather legged, naked neck. Thatll throw them out of whack.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Or a frizzle, silkied, crested, five-toed, feather legged, naked neck. Thatll throw them out of whack.

Oh, that would be fun.... I think people's heads would just explode.

 

[cheeka]

don't you suffer enough crazy questions as it is??? even chicken folk would wanna know what the heck it is!

 

[7 Biddies]

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I live in a small agricultural community in the mountains, 2 hours from anywhere. And, yet, when the locals see my assortment of chickens, they tell me they never saw any like these before. They had just plain brown or white chickens. Didn't know they came in all these colors. The coop *really* blows their minds!! All they ever knew about was chickens running around the yard, or those huge hen houses. They rarely use manure, choosing chemical fertilizers, too. Organic isn't in their vocabularies.

Of course, in this case, it's not stupidity or arrogance, it's a lack of exposure. But, it's really interesting to see how little "traditional" farmers know about raising sustainable food. They need almost as much education as the city folks ... in fact, sometimes it's harder to teach the farmers because they've been doing it this way for so long. I'd like to see a sustainable farming program implemented in our school. Now THAT would be a real education!

 

[capsicum]

A short tangent. Background first; I work for a company that sells outdoorsy camping boating biking type stuff and for a few reasons they set up lots of volunteer events for helping athletic events, trail maintenance, local food bank farm and so on.

Anyway, a lot of the volunteers are from corporate HQ in the next town over(on the outskirts of the Tacoma-Seattle megapolis) and while they are enthusiastic and I've come to expect the following, I am still always left shaking my head when I watch some of them use basic tools. I swear there are a good portion of them that have no idea how to use a shovel correctly, may as well have 1st grade "volunteers" fiddling about. (All of the new HQ employees are required to attend at least one outing so it's not just the same old core group.)

I live in a farm area and one old farmer was trying to tell me that keeping the ground constantly bare/plowed doesn't hurt a thing, "all that plant matter is still in there, it doesn't go anywhere." Keep in mind that we get enough rain in the winter to fully saturate the soil down to the water table and we have a low clay content, so even if the organic matter didn't break down into carbon dioxide and evaporate, the fertilizer minerals not locked up in plants tend to wash out.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Can't use a shovel *tsk, tsk, tsk* Although most city people think I'm a horribly neglected child when they find out that I had to bury a pet when I was 11. Well, that's life isn't it?

 

[Gomes Bantams]

What i hate the most is when i tell family or friends about me wanting to go into the poultry buisness, they always ask... "You mean like working for foster farms?" Uhhh..... NO. I mean like starting my own line of free rangers starting my own buisness. If i work for somebody else, i end up working with sick, gross birds and i cant own, go near or eat the eggs of my own chickens. Why would i ever work for them? I think not.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

What i hate the most is when i tell family or friends about me wanting to go into the poultry buisness, they always ask... "You mean like working for foster farms?" Uhhh..... NO. I mean like starting my own line of free rangers starting my own buisness. If i work for somebody else, i end up working with sick, gross birds and i cant own, go near or eat the eggs of my own chickens. Why would i ever work for them?  I think not.

Good for you!

My family has just given up. As long as they get eggs they don't really care what I do with my chickens, or how many I have. My mom thought we had 3 Salmon Faverolles for ever! Umm, we only ordered 2 in the first place, and remember when we sold that one? Yeah... I swear I could order 200 roos and they wouldn't have a clue until they started ceowing, and even then it might take a LONG time.