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

[Kiniska]

Tell them you are going to convert your living room into a chicken aviary. Probably knock a few holes in the roof for skylights.

 

[Lifestudent]

me: i am thinking of getting a few chickens

them(several people have said this so far): where are you going to keep/put them?

me: in the yard

seriously how can people ask this YES i live in a city, i also have a larger backyard the only one on our street...people ask me the same thing about our garden

Ours started out in our family room. That is until they got very adept at jumping out of the pen my wife had made for them out of cardboard boxes and pooping on the carpet. If your city allows you to have chickens in your yard, then go for it. You'll never regret it, and you'll also have fun stories to tell about people who think they know about chickens.

 

[chickadoodles]

I told my daughter that when my ee's start laying eggs I wanted to bring her some. She told me that she would not eat my eggs! That she only eats pasteurized eggs and only eats stuff from the grocery store!
UGH!!!

 

[7 Biddies]

I told my daughter that when my ee's start laying eggs I wanted to bring her some. She told me that she would not eat my eggs! That she only eats pasteurized eggs and only eats stuff from the grocery store!
UGH!!!

She only eats things that come from a factory, are loaded with chemicals and antibiotics, and which the USDA allows to contain a certain amount of fecal matter and rat hair, rather than food produced at home with no chemicals, or prepared in your kitchen with ZERO fecal matter and rat hairs?

Hunh. Whyzat?

 

[chickadoodles]

I know! I tried to tell her all the downfalls including all the egg recalls for making ppl sick. But she swears she will only eat food from the grocery store. Yet her DH goes hunting and fishing and she eats that! lol

 

[Jennsbirds]

Funny, I grew up not knowing but wanting to, the more I learned about the treatment of the animals the less I wanted to eat them. The whole reason I have chickens is because the idea of battery chicken laying sickens me now. If the animals are treated well I have no ethical issues.

I eat meat and I don't want to change that for a variety of reasons, but I want to get chickens for food (including eggs). I'm finding them more and more essential to all my plans for growing most of my non-carbohydrate based food.

 

[TheCrazyChick]

I yelled over for my neighbor, who was working in her yard, to come see the chickens who had given her the eggs for her cheesecake. I had rigged up a fenced-in area so they could turn my garden beds under before planting, so they were very visible for once. She walked over and exclaimed, "Goodness, I didn't know chickens had anything but WHITE feathers!"

 

[Minchi]

I eat meat and I don't want to change that for a variety of reasons, but I want to get chickens for food (including eggs). I'm finding them more and more essential to all my plans for growing most of my non-carbohydrate based food.

I love meat, just not poorly treated meat. At least people are starting to realize how bad the conditions are for animals and the laws are changing. Though my husband and I were out looking at houses in the more rural areas yesterday. They had one town café that got all it's food from Cisco?!?!?!?!?! You have cow farmers, chicken farmers, farmer farmers...why would you buy everything to feed them from a faceless corporation?!?!?!?

 

[cassie]

I told my daughter that when my ee's start laying eggs I wanted to bring her some. She told me that she would not eat my eggs! That she only eats pasteurized eggs and only eats stuff from the grocery store!
UGH!!!

Are the eggs she buys pasteurized or does she just think they are? Ask her how she knows the eggs she buys are pasteurized. If they are, it will say so on the label. There are pasteurized eggs available, but the vast majority of the eggs in the market are not.

 

[cassie]

She only eats things that come from a factory, are loaded with chemicals and antibiotics, and which the USDA allows to contain a certain amount of fecal matter and rat hair, rather than food produced at home with no chemicals, or prepared in your kitchen with ZERO fecal matter and rat hairs?

Hunh. Whyzat?

Now I think home produced eggs and chickens are better than store bought.. But eggs from the store are "not loaded with chemicals and antibiotics". And I have never found a rat hair, or any hair, on any of the eggs I have ever purchased. And I wouldn't say my home produced eggs always have zero fecal matter, either. Most are very clean, but if an eggs gets soiled, I am not going to discard it for that reason.