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

[7 Biddies]

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"

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....

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams

 

[cheeka]

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams

 

[jahphotogal]

Would you have said, "Y'know, we didn't think you would keep the chickens" or, "Ewwwwww. You're not going to eat those eggs, are you?"

Well, no, but I didn't know how the whole rooster thing worked and whether you needed one to get eggs! (Of course a moment's reflection about human eggs would have made it obvious...) I was raised in a big city - back then eggs came from the milkman!

But now I live in the country and buy my eggs from a local farmer (at least til mine start laying), so I'm not as ignorant as I could have been!

 

[Minchi]

I have never had wild turkey, but my husband loves venison and we get lots of buffalo in Colorado. Sadly we don't hunt...yet. Have you had wild boar? That is some tasty meat.

Is the only way to cut the game flavor to boil it in milk?

 

[Gomes Bantams]

lets keep this thread goin, Im lovin these.

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

(Off topic!)

Killed a rat!

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Ummmmm, cool? My Australorp just stared down our cat over a rat......she seems to be enjoying it....*shudder*

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Gross....

 

[cheeka]

I have never had wild turkey, but my husband loves venison and we get lots of buffalo in Colorado. Sadly we don't hunt...yet. Have you had wild boar? That is some tasty meat.

Is the only way to cut the game flavor to boil it in milk?

Just soak it in milk. the acids in the milk will break down the fibers of the meat, keep it cold in the fridge.

what the animal eats and how quickly it is processed has more to do with the flavor than how it's cooked. a deer harvested during the end of winter has been eating primarily pine bark (up here anyway... food gets scarce and the snow gets deep...) they don't taste nearly as good as one taken in Octobers bow season... when it's full of grasses, acorns, corn, apples and what-all forage they can find.
as for processing... would you make a ham sandwich, then set in on the counter for a day... and then eat it? when you bring in game... you process it as fast as possible for the best results, and this includes fish... meats should be aged off of the carcass IMHO.

 

[TommyDaDelaware]

not Really DUMB, just CUTE, I thought!!
"The white chickens (Baby delawares) Lay white eggs and the Brown ones lay brown eggs, right?" Little boy upon seeing my chickens.
"Is that as big as they get?" Little girl, seeing my really little fully feathered? delawares.