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

[7 Biddies]

wow... shaking my head... just wow... that's just so kooky it's amazing...

You'd really have to know this woman.

 

[oldrooster]

Oh, please. When it comes to teachers, I've heard things that have curled my toes. An assistant principal, working on her doctorate, called me to ask how to spell "ado", "as in much ado about nothing". Stunned, I gave her the correct answer, realizing, too late, that I should have said A-D-I-E-U. I have seen misspelled posters and signs in schools, abysmal emails, puzzlement over vocabulary words, and many of these educators say "pacific" instead of "specific", and "simular" for "similar", spelling it the same way. <sigh> The worst part is that they aren't interested in changing.

I entered the education profession with the expectation that these were educated professionals. I have been very, very disappointed.

What I can't stand is Idea and Ideal being switched like the words mean the same thing. From as often as I hear people switch it I guess my my ideal idea of trying to use the English language is of no use.

I teach fifth grade and while in teacher lounge the subject of my chickens came up. One of the younger ladies pipes up and says "I would never have thought you would have nasty things like chickens! Why don't you buy "REAL" chicken and eggs from the store like the rest of us."
The next day I brought a pet silkie to school for everyone to see. She came in my room and swore it could not be a "real" chicken. Then asked if it was crossed with a RABBIT
I am now worried about her "teaching" skills.

My cousin's refused to eat their pet rabbits they rarely played with or cared for (parents usually had to take care of them (they where kept outside and in essence where treated like livestock instead of pets). So their parents culled them slowly and took the meat to both grandparents house so if "fluffy" went missing the kids noticed they wouldn't recognize it on the table (meatloaf or pork chops ate on a regular bases as examples wouldn't arouse suspicion if the kids noticed they knew it wouldn't be fluffy). But my cousins thought it was funny both sets of grand parents had that "funny looking" chicken (fluffy).

 

[oldrooster]

7 Biddies this is not directed to you but to your co-worker, there is an old saying those who can teach, and I have heard several times it misquoted about people like your co-workers, those who CAN'T teach, meaning they couldn't make it outside of academia to keep a job so they became teachers. I had several "teachers/instructors" who couldn't teach to save their lives (and not do to kids who refused to try or who just could not grasp the information) and I had a supervisor whom went back to school (he apparently quit college 3-4 classes shy of an education degree) because he knew that his reputation with the company had leaked out that he was lazy and incompetent and he knew he was on a short list if the company ever downsized he was out so he got his degree and went to teach at a private school because he knew he didn't have to work to get a license to teach there.

 

[marlo1968]

If I COULD cross a chicken and a rabbit, I would not have been having that conversation. I would have been home, happy and wealthy, with my "RICKINS" HA!!

 

[CountryAgain]

I posted to this thread a while back with something a co-worker had said. Well today, this same co-worker asked me "how many chickens do you have now?" I told her I have 10. She said "10 chickens and 3 roosters?" I said "no, 10 total". She looked confused so I said "I have 10 chickens....3 are roosters and 7 are hens". I couldn't believe it when she said "I never thought about that roosters are chickens."

 

[Mac14]

I posted to this thread a while back with something a co-worker had said. Well today, this same co-worker asked me "how many chickens do you have now?" I told her I have 10. She said "10 chickens and 3 roosters?" I said "no, 10 total". She looked confused so I said "I have 10 chickens....3 are roosters and 7 are hens". I couldn't believe it when she said "I never thought about that roosters are chickens."

Ha! Wow.

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Yeah i had a couple do that to me at a sale. i had a pen of OEGBs and the lady asked, are these chickens or roosters. i responded, chickens, but that one is a rooster and that one is a hen.

 

[7 Biddies]

I posted to this thread a while back with something a co-worker had said. Well today, this same co-worker asked me "how many chickens do you have now?" I told her I have 10. She said "10 chickens and 3 roosters?" I said "no, 10 total". She looked confused so I said "I have 10 chickens....3 are roosters and 7 are hens". I couldn't believe it when she said "I never thought about that roosters are chickens."

The more I know about people, the more I love my chickens and cats.

(Lesson: Everytime you open your mouth, your brains are on parade.)

 

[FireTigeris]

I posted to this thread a while back with something a co-worker had said. Well today, this same co-worker asked me "how many chickens do you have now?" I told her I have 10. She said "10 chickens and 3 roosters?" I said "no, 10 total". She looked confused so I said "I have 10 chickens....3 are roosters and 7 are hens". I couldn't believe it when she said "I never thought about that roosters are chickens."

Well your (or some if the person has an 'incorrect' sample of children) children are all human, that is a girl and that one a boy...

 

[coffeenutdesign]

When i was building my coop, ive put pictures of the process on Facebook. The first comment i received from my mother-in-law was: Are you sure? You will attract all sorts of things!!! Have you thinked about your childrens???!!! Of course, my coop is fenced and im confident to call it ''predators-proofed''. Even if there would be somekind of predators, its not like if i would say ''Hey kids look!!! There is a coyote around the coop!!!! CHARGE!!!! Having predators around is a risk, but seriously...is having chicken is dangerous when you have kids??? Definitely not....

Actually, this is not entirely untrue. We live in an area with lots of snakes and when we started having chicks outside, snakes would be attracted to them. I scared off snakes a couple of times when I had my older chicks in a small run in the backyard to let them start going outside. We even had one big bullsnake actually get in the building where we had our brooder and actually got in the box....made it up under the screened lid and everything. It managed to to eat 3 chicks and kill another 2 when we saw it. My daughter had lifted the lid and stuck her hand in to grab the water dish before she saw it and really scared her. Our bullsnakes have very similar markings to the western diamondbacks. Now bullsnakes are not dangerous other than scaring the heck out of you, but twice we did find rattlesnakes near the coop once the chickens were older and outside. A couple of years ago, a snake got into the coop and tried to swallow my young birds, who ended up being too big to swallow, and I found 2 dead chickens with elongated slimy necks and heads where the snake had started trying to eat them. Our chickens attract snakes and we do live where there are dangerous snakes, so depending on the area the chickens can attract dangerous predators.

Also several years ago, maybe 7 or so, there was a problem with the foxes in the area having rabies and several small kids were bit in broad daylight with no provocation. I can understand if a rabid animal is initially attracted to chickens how a child might be hurt. It's definitely not common and is probably more of a regional issue if you don't have poisonous snakes or rabies issues, but it can happen.

*For the record, it's not like that keeps us from having chickens, but I have always had to teach my kids to watch out for snakes.