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

[silkieluver50]

OMG, I was telling a lady at work the other day that I'll be getting chickens this summer and plan to have lots and lots of eggs. I told her I'd bring some in for her so that she can taste how much better they are.

Know what she said?

Her: "Oh my GAWD, eeeeeewwwwww, I could never eat those eggs!"

Me: "Ummmm, why not?

Her: "Well, BECAUSE, they came out of a chicken's butt!"

Me: "Ummmmm. Huh? You eat eggs from the store, right?"

Her: "Well, yeah, of COURSE, but that's different!"

Me: "How is that different? Those eggs also came out of a chicken."

Her: "But those are all sanitary and come in a box."

Me: "I'll wash my eggs and box them for you too."

Her: "Blech, no way. I could never eat eggs from your chickens. That's just gross."

Me: "***?"

[Erica walks away shaking head]


WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!

LOL, this is just too much. No wonder I want to quit my job and become a pioneer woman and never have to leave the house...

Haha thank goodness my place does not have those type of people or else I might fall of my chair laughing

I just can't believe what they think, thinking that those eggs in the supermarkets come out of the walls or something even more nutty!

 

[farmerChef]

Haha thank goodness my place does not have those type of people or else I might fall of my chair laughing I just can't believe what they think, thinking that those eggs in the supermarkets come out of the walls or something even more nutty!

Well, DUH, they are the seeds from the eggplant, and you cant grow the ones at the store because they arent fertile. Thats where all my eggs come from

 

[marlo1968]

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

I also saw the episode of chopped where a silkie was in the basket. Not only did the announcer call it a silkie, but the birds were already plucked, heads and feet still on. The entire bird was black, they were definitely silkie chickens.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote:
I read in a reminisce magazine once (this was 20 or more years ago I read it) that in the early 1900's you could find freshly butchered chickens in little Chinatown and other Oriental populated areas with the heads and feet still attached and they used the chickens like most families in the mid west and south I heard about (they used everything from the pig except the oink)....

 

[missnu01]

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.

That whole article was absolutely ridiculous. My chickens aren't pets...they are naturally occurring meals that grow right in my own backyard...We eat hens that stop laying...We eat roosters if we have too many...We don't suffocate them to death, or grind them up or any other nonsense. They get to live and have a good old chickeny time before we eat them...but let's be real chickens have been engineered by man and nature alike to be the whole planet's perfect easiest grown snack. As for vet costs for a chicken, it is a cheap meal, not a pet. None of my chickens have names. Do I enjoy them? Of course I do. Do I pet them and hold them? yes...but do I also eat them, again yes...
You can't really talk animal cruelty and include farming...or every farm everywhere is cruel...I guess that would mean it is cruel to eat any animal...and I just don't believe that to be the case. Give an animal a good life, while it is fulfilling it's intended purpose...Like Hansel and Gretel in the witch's house...we are just fattening them up.

 

[mfpif16]

Although my chickens are definatly pets, I still agree with you that the stuff in this article is ridiculus. factory farms kill roosters and hens that stop laying, not backyard chicken owners! Who ever wrote this article is either a lier, got their info from another unreliable source, or is just plain stupid. I can't believe the stuff about the coop. Apparently we all need to get monitors, motion sensors and heating for our coops. Also, my coop cost $300, and the city permit was $25. I only have 2 hens, but still, 5,000!?! ***!! I'm not sure there is a coop in the world that cost's that much, unless your roosting bars are made of solid gold.

 

[JeffOeuf]

It was a bunch of vegan propaganda. Total nonsense.

 

[dolphinlvr4]

Woooow, she's not to bright if she's turning down organic fresh eggs!! She just doesn't know what she's missing, more eggs for you.

 

[dolphinlvr4]

As a kid my dad always told me we feed the animals and then they feed us. Pretty basic stuff n I do want animals treated humanly but I love meat n I'm not gonna stop enjoying it. My hens r just for eggs but many in my family r in the cattle business. I'm thinking this BYC isn't a good place for the vegans!

 

[hungry4eggs]

If I had thought of it I would have posted a pic of the meat I recieved from the deer I harvested a few weeks ago in the articles comments. Along with pics of my chicks describing them as breakfast makers and future mothers of dinner.