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

[ronott1]

I dont have enough eggs to share yet but I wanted to show them off to my family member so took some to a get together. My mom had a dozen from a neighbor that raises chickens and she was a little disappointed, she noted that they were much fresher than the store but they just didn't taste as good as she remembered growing up. The next morning we decided to make eggs for breakfast and in the process we cracked 2 eggs (one mine one from the neighbor) side by side...both very fresh and healthy looking and both from brown shells.. However mine, the free range had bright orange, creamy yolks while the others were similar to the store bought yellow...and that is the taste she remembered growing up. So if you do indeed have free range eggs and someone is giving you a hard timme on price all you need to do is crack an egg or give them a few for a trial...they'll be back!!

Yes! I gave mine away at first. Now they buy them....

 

[SD Bird Lady]

Who doesn't like free samples??

I do, I hate to admit it but I am kind of excited to see what kind of packing peanuts I get in my order this year?? Last time I had a full order and didnt get any

 

[Lifestudent]

There are some on here that post that their chickens are pets and refuse to think about eating them others won't eat their chickens eggs, I have no idea why you would have chickens and not eat them or eat their eggs.....

My wife won't even think about eating her "babies". As for the eggs. when we had 11 hens instead of the 6 we have now she would take an egg that was still warm and poke a hole in the end, then suck the insides out. I've been making eggnog with raw eggs from our hens Yum!

 

[Lifestudent]

" im never eatting another egg, it might have a chick in"

Balut comes to mind. I spent 4 years in the Philippines and raised chickens and ducks while there. Balut is a "delicacy" there. It is an egg, usually duck, that has started to develop, then is hard boiled. It started out as a way to use eggs where the chick stopped developing because of earthquakes. My ex, whom I married while there, wouldn't let me eat any of our eggs because she wanted them for balut.

Now back to more appetizing subjects.

 

[Lifestudent]

Yes! I gave mine away at first. Now they buy them....

Like a drug dealer giving them the first fix so they get hooked, except in our case it's a good thing.

 

[drumstick diva]

sounds yummy NOT!

 

[Reurra]

This wasnt about my chickens, but a friends chickens. He has 5 laying hens. They started feather picking so he threatened to shoot them, but he always says that lol Anyhow, he figured they were bored, so he let them out of their coop and have the run of the yard. Well the birds went out and started free ranging and the pooped all over his driveway. "Stupid chickens! The poop all over my driveway! Im going to shoot them!"

Hes now building them a HUGE coop...for 5 birds lol.

 

[7 Biddies]

At a gathering on Saturday, I was telling one older man and his adult daughter that, with the shorter days, my chickens aren't laying much right now. He suggested turning on a light. I told him I wouldn't do that because it's not what mother natured intended and I didn't want to wear them out early. He snickered at me like I was an idiot. Then, he actually laughed at me because I only have 7 chickens. He used to have 5,000! I guess that made him an expert. They were jammed into the typical chicken house with no outdoor access, lights left on all the time for more egg production, and their beaks off to prevent canibalism.


I looked at him and said, "What in the world would I want with 5,000 chickens? Seven laying hens are more than adequate for my personal needs."


Speaking of shorter days, my chickens are going to bed a little later now as the days start to lengthen again. I love the way they keep me more in tune with nature.

 

[Reurra]

At a gathering on Saturday, I was telling one older man and his adult daughter that, with the shorter days, my chickens aren't laying much right now. He suggested turning on a light. I told him I wouldn't do that because it's not what mother natured intended and I didn't want to wear them out early. He snickered at me like I was an idiot. Then, he actually laughed at me because I only have 7 chickens. He used to have 5,000! I guess that made him an expert. They were jammed into the typical chicken house with no outdoor access, lights left on all the time for more egg production, and their beaks off to prevent canibalism.


I looked at him and said, "What in the world would I want with 5,000 chickens? Seven laying hens are more than adequate for my personal needs."


Speaking of shorter days, my chickens are going to bed a little later now as the days start to lengthen again. I love the way they keep me more in tune with nature.

My husbands grandfather had a 3000 chicken farm back in the early 1900s. When he learned I had a rooster in the coop (even though i told him the roo has no access to the girls) he claimed all my eggs were tainted

 

[oldrooster]

Quote:
Saw something on an eppisode of Star Trek The Next Generation about eating an egg with a partially developed bird in it, it was an alien speicies thought it was a delicacy I guess that's where they got their idea....