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

[Lifestudent]

While watching an episode of Chopped they had black chickens in their baskets could they have been silkies they did mention something about China.

Yes, I think they were silkies.

 

[mfpif16]

yeah, I looked it up, and they were probably silkies. they have black skin, bones and black/blueish flesh.
here's an article about it: http://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-deal-with-black-chic-80171

 

[7 Biddies]

The other week I was showing one of my friends a hatchery catalog and saying that the white leghorns are usually used for white egg commercial industry stuff, and she was like 'ya because they bleach them'. I told her that it actually relies on the breed. Then I started thinking, what if they do bleach them? I know that they are laid white, but poop gets on it and stuff, so maybe they do bleach them to make them clean, and that is when the misconception comes in.

Yes, the commercial folks wash the eggs in a solution containing chlorine bleach because the USDA requires it for "safety" (they think they're killing germs, but they're getting rid of the protective covering, bloom, that keeps germs out). Anyway, most people don't know enough about their food to even understand that eggs come from chickens, so I don't believe this is where the misconception comes from. I think it's just literal thinking (white eggs = bleach), and you're just being nice.

 

[hungry4eggs]

http://www.chow.com/food-news/104627/the-dark-side-of-backyard-chickens/

This article is full of dumb things, reading the comments I was glad to see people calling the author out on bs.

 

[Uriel]

Yeah I saw it a few times, they had Silkie meat on a
Halloween episode of Chopped and called it 'black chicken'. Chris i think commented something about how the meat looked scary but the actual animal was adorable.

 

[ohiochick2013]

Do the blue eggs take longer to boil since they have more pigment? Lol! Just heard this one today.

 

[appps]

Anyway, most people don't know enough about their food to even understand that eggs come from chickens

Seriously?? Time to just give up if we've got that stupid!

 

[silkieluver50]

I love that.

People are just so stupid it's unbelievable. I remember growing up when my cousins came to visit and it was time to butcher the cattle we had raised. Poor thing had no idea...I guess she thought ground beef just came out of the supermarket.

Yeah some people just never now

 

[silkieluver50]

yeah, I looked it up, and they were probably silkies. they have black skin, bones and black/blueish flesh.
here's an article about it: http://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-deal-with-black-chic-80171

Yeah they are silkies I have quite a lot of silkies

 

[silkieluver50]

Was the chicken all black or just the feathers? In China there is a chicken that is all black, even the meat and bones.

But there is some other coulers too but there is alot of white silkies theres also black blueish and brown silkies