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

[7 Biddies]

You may be on to something, lol....every morning, while waiting for their cheese, my girls walk up the back stairs (and yes it's hilarious to watch a chicken walk up a set of stairs like a human) and then get into a group and cluck away to each other for about 15 minutes. Then they break up after cheese time....it's like the morning shop meeting at a union.
I can see Sheila standing there with her lil clipboard under her wing, "ooookaaaayyy....now lets see, Caspar, you and Speckles and Ania are on laying duty today, Little, you find us a new grub patch, the old one is getting fished out. Tard, you search through the compost pile, and Cholula, as usual, you're on dog guarding duty again. Alright, everybody got their assignments for today, lets get our cheese and then we're off!"

So *that's* what they've been saying. I've always wondered ... answers the question about the clipboard under the wing, too. Thanks for the chicken insight.

 

[SFHomestead]

I haven't raised chickens since I was a kid, but now that the wife and I have a nice piece of land we are about to get some chicks in a couple weeks. I asked one of my co-workers if she would like so fresh eggs every once in a while once they start laying, and she said "I'll let you eat them for 6 months to test them, so if you don't get sick in that time I might try some. You can be the guinea pig." I just laughed.

 

[dolphinlvr4]

That's so funny cuz before I got my hens ( none are old enuff to lay yet) I used to ask everyone I knew who had chickens of I could buy eggs from them. I actually begged!! I felt like I was scoring something illegal.... Lmao

 

[SoCalChicky]

Actually I seem to remember reading that this used to be true. It didn't really have anything to do with the egg colour, but how the chickens are treated. Chickens that laid white eggs took to mass farming really well and still laid even in factory farm situations. Chickens that laid brown eggs wouldn't put up with being stuffed into tiny cages and never allowed outside, so you knew that brown eggs came from chickens living a better life, and thus produced a better egg. It's not true anymore but I guess it used to be. Now that I tried looking it up for a source I can't find where I read that though.

Maybe I'm one of those people!

I read this TOOOO!!! and up until a few years ago adamantly argued this...

 

[olefarmersdaughter]

I grew up on a farm in Iowa where we got about 300 white plymouths a year. Half where butchered to share with my town dwelling family and the other half of course for egg production. We sold our brown eggs as grade B to Carnation (I think) and I always wanted to know why we didn't get the 'white egg' kind of birds and was told they were too skinny to butcher. That being said, that is why I thought brown eggs were inferior to white one since ours were sold as grade B and the white ones in the store where grade A.

 

[Bluebonnet]

Oh I've had lots, here are some:

Do they have babies in them?
Are the green ones bad? Are the blue ones sweet?
How do I wash the dirt off (brown eggs)?
Only white ones are sanitary
Of course you need a rooster
The colored ones are dirty and are from sick roosters (yes they meant a rooster).
I'd never eat anything out of an animal's butt, yet they are cramming their face with a Egg McMuffin with extra cheese.

I live in the city, though most of the rooster comments came from older people who claimed to have owned chickens. LOL

I'm going to be a first time chicken owner shortly and I do have similar questions.

Do the different colored eggs and different breeds have slightly different flavored eggs? Different varieties of apples taste differently. I figured it could be the same with eggs. That's an honest legitimate question.

 

[animallover505]

I'm going to be a first time chicken owner shortly and I do have similar questions.

Do the different colored eggs and different breeds have slightly different flavored eggs? Different varieties of apples taste differently. I figured it could be the same with eggs. That's an honest legitimate question.

nope, it is all what they are fed.

 

[dolphinlvr4]

Chickens are omnivorous, they will eat just about everything but there are some things like citrus that's not good for them. My friend feeds her chickens all her leftovers that are safe n those gals will eat it all. Lol. I know many people whose chicken diet is only 25% of feed n the rest is scraps from the dinner table and the eggs are fabulous. ;-)

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had a barred rock pullet who laid and egg for the first time and my new hampshire hen jogged alongside her and talked to her, I thinks she was giving her the "your a woman now" speach, and I think she was telling her that she contributes now.

 

[oldrooster]

I grew up on a farm in Iowa where we got about 300 white plymouths a year. Half where butchered to share with my town dwelling family and the other half of course for egg production. We sold our brown eggs as grade B to Carnation (I think) and I always wanted to know why we didn't get the 'white egg' kind of birds and was told they were too skinny to butcher. That being said, that is why I thought brown eggs were inferior to white one since ours were sold as grade B and the white ones in the store where grade A.

It may have been due to your parents knew they would accept a grade A for a grade B but not the other way around, and if they wouldn't produce all grade A they never risked not fulfilling the contract because a few eggs where too small, or shells that where a little thin from a young or old hen at either end of the laying cycle or the hen that had an off day.