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

[tlcmama]

i've just about completed a new enclosure for my almost 18 weeks old chooks and my nosy neighbor comes over, i'm sure it's been driving her batty, what we could be doing... making all that noise cutting and pounding pipes...?? and she says, "wow... that's really cool... you could camp out in there... y'know, we didn't think you would keep the chickens."
what? wouldn't keep them? so i asked her why she and her fam-damily thought that... and she said, "i don't know... we just didn't think you would"
i am still speechless. i'm responsible... my animals are all in excellent health and receive excellent care, love and attention... my chickens are no different than the rest except that they don't come in the house... my new enclosure is the BOMB too! i love it!
so

nosy neighbor! next time you stick your dumb ole nose in my business, i'll send BR Betty to bite it off!

egg her house

just kidding, what am i 12?!

 

[3 Blonde Ponies]

The reptile forum I'm also a member off has a thread just like this. The best one was the member who had a relative that was telling his kids that turtles shed their shells. No matter how many times he tried to re-educate him, he insisted that it was true.( I guess he had them mixed up with hermit crabs!)



Devon

 

[jab91864]

It wasn't so much what was said as what was done.

I had a big potluck to go to so needed to take a substantial dish. I had butchered some cockerels and used the meat to make a new recipe I had been wanting to try for a chicken salad. I stuffed rolls with the chicken salad filling and took that as my dish to pass. I thought it will be easy for ppl to grab going through the line.

As I was standing in the crowd talking to ppl one of the women said to me OMG, this is the best chicken salad what all is in here. Like an idiot I start to rattle off the ingredients and follow with and I butchered the chickens myself. She turned green and SPIT out her mouthful of sandwich and walked away gagging. Her husband laughed and continued to eat his chicken salad but I was embarrassed. I've never had anyone spit my food out before , atleast not in front of me...lol.

edited to add::::
She said later the thought that I had killed the chickens was too much for her to handle. Now keep in mind we live in the country, we're not city folk. Also her father is a taxidermist and her husband an avid deer hunter. So associating animals with food should not be something new for her....

 

[cheeka]

i had the SAME thing happen at a pot luck dinner party, except i didn't butcher the pig... for the pork that was in my German Potato Salad...but it was my pig... not only did the lady spit it out, she tried to scrape the salad into the trash - another guest stopped her and scraped it on his plate instead... he told her there was no way he was going to allow her to waste such great food... at another of these same parties, i was short on cash... so i took a bag of frozen bean burritos that cost $1... lined them up in a casserole dish, covered them with cut up pieces of leftover chicken, salsa, sour cream and cheese and baked it up... figured at least i had something, these pot luck dinners were actually kind of fancy... the host came running to me and said "go get some of that mexican dish over there, it's FANTASTIC!" i just beamed and told her i made it, so it's ok if everyone else enjoys it... hurray for creative ingenuity!

 

[rekkas peeps]

i've just about completed a new enclosure for my almost 18 weeks old chooks and my nosy neighbor comes over, i'm sure it's been driving her batty, what we could be doing... making all that noise cutting and pounding pipes...?? and she says, "wow... that's really cool... you could camp out in there... y'know, we didn't think you would keep the chickens."
what? wouldn't keep them? so i asked her why she and her fam-damily thought that... and she said, "i don't know... we just didn't think you would"
i am still speechless. i'm responsible... my animals are all in excellent health and receive excellent care, love and attention... my chickens are no different than the rest except that they don't come in the house... my new enclosure is the BOMB too! i love it!
so

nosy neighbor! next time you stick your dumb ole nose in my business, i'll send BR Betty to bite it off!

OMG SOOOO FUNNY!!!!! we have a neighbor like that (actually it's his son whodoesn't even live there) who is the same way.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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My roosters do that too. I love watching it.

 

[Vickilynn45]

My roosters do that too. I love watching it.

I would love to see that!

 

[tls_ranch]

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My roosters do that too. I love watching it.
My roosters sit and coo to the hens in the nest box too! The first time my husband saw it happen, he thought that the rooster had gone crazy. LOL. The hens really seem to get excited about a rooster in the nest box. I've even seen one roo "making a nest" with bits of straw etc.

Trisha

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

My d'Anver does that with his girl Abigail. They're so tiny they both fit in there and snuggle. It's especially cute because I painted his toenails hot pink *muahahahahaha*

 

[7 Biddies]

"y'know, we didn't think you would keep the chickens."

What *did* she think you were going to do with them? <scratch, scratch>