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

[RTFchickens]

Out of the mouth of babes:
My 4 year old was excited to learn our chickens lay brown eggs.
"I like the chocolate eggs better mom" loved it!
This is our first experience owning chickens, we live in a nice subdivision and we are the 3rd family I know who own chickens now. Comments from the neighbors who oppose chicken owning in a subdivision say "they shouldn't be allowed! They stink, they're loud, and its inconsiderate to the other people in the neighborhood"
Then when I ask if they know who owns them, they often can't tell me because they can't tell they are there! We have a chicken owner about 5 houses down, and there is no odor, or loud noise because they don't have a crowing rooster...

 

[CyndiChick]

My kids go to an awesome school. They do egg hatching 2 or 3 timea a year in every class fom K to 5th I thibk it is. Each class also has a garden plot they tend during "special area". Flowers, veggies, and fun stuff all go in it. It actually encouraged my two boys to want their own gardens here at home. One has broccoli and the other swiss chard. They also have their own chicks and gather the eggs and feed the whole flock. We've been asked before why we let our kids mess with chickens when "chickens are dirty nasty animals". My response is to take them back to our coop and show them how clean it is. And show them the difference in my autistic son's behavior when he spends time with the chickens. We also cook them some of our fresh eggs and let them see how good they are. Our neighbors are now building a coop and run to get their own!

 

[7 Biddies]

.. the egg itself IS the womb lining, because chickens don't have a womb, the egg is the womb

I understand what you're trying to say, but the analogy just doesn't work. You know how they say, "Apples and oranges", meaning they can't be compared or called similar? And do you remember Bloom's Taxonomy from biology class? Their taxonomies explain why, although both are plants, they aren't similar:

Apples

Oranges​

Kingdom

Plantae

Plantae
Division

Magnoliophyta

Embryophyta
Class

Magnoliopsida

Dicotyledonae
Order

Rosales

Geraniale
Family

Rosaceae
(Subfamily: Maloideae)

Rutaceae
Genus

Malus

Citrus
Species

M. domestica

C. Sinensus


Same with humans and chickens. After both being vertebrates (with spinal chords) in the animal kingdom, there are no similarities. Their anatomy, and reproductive systems, are entirely different.

Human

Chicken​

Kingdom

Animalia

Animalia
Phylum

Chordata

Chordata
Subphylum

Vertebrata

Vertebrata
Class

Mammalia
(Subclass: Theria)

Aves (Birds)
Order

Primates
(Suborder: Anthropoidea)

Galliformes
Family

Superfamily: Hominoidea
Hominidae

Phasianidae
Genus

Homo

Gallus
Species

Sapiens

G. domesticus

 

[Weirdness555]

I know that they are different, ergo I don' go around eating ... yeah, but the analogy does work, because ovulation is not laying an egg, it is releasing one from an ovary, and as far as that is concerned chickens are the same as humans, because they also have ovaries. Therefore, laying is not ovulation, it is essentially shedding an unfertilised egg and the thing that holds it, which is the same as a human period. The fact that they are classified differently does not demonstrate anything as far as I can tell. Also remember that an "egg" is actually a cell, not a yolk and white packaged in a shell. As for do I remember, I'm an A Level student (I don't know what that is in America, but I'm 17) and I'm taking 2 biology exams in the next two weeks, I know about taxonomy.

 

[blondeNchicken]

After reading this ENTIRE thread, I finally have something to contribute!

My roommate is incredibly smart. He is a musician, artist, neurology major, hippie, paleo dieter, backyard philosopher, and a reader of anything and everything educational. I never would have expected anything dumb to come from him.

Me: "Oh man, I'm really nervous right now. I think one of my pullets is actually a rooster!"
Him: *looks at my 14wk old white leghorn, who has the teeniest yellow comb* "Oh yeah. She's DEFINITELY a rooster."
Me: "Oh, I was actually talking about that black and white one." (My EE is a she-male!)
Him: "Oh. Well when you want to kill her, let me know."
Me: ???
Him: "Well, you can't have roosters, it'll ruin the eggs."
Me: ?????? "What do you mean?"
Him: "You can't eat them if you have roosters..." *looking at me like I'M the idiot*
Me: "There's nothing wrong with the eggs, it's more of a moral issue with people believing that they'll actually be eating a baby chick, which isn't true, because you need to incubate an egg before a chick will develop."
Him: *flustered* "Well I just don't see the POINT in having roosters."
Me: "For chicks? Roosters will also protect the hens, and teach them how to do different things."
Him: "Well yeah, but farmers separate the boys and the girls until they want chicks!"
Me: *trying to be nice* "I've actually never heard of that... It seems like it'd be expensive, and a lot of work."

 

[7 Biddies]

I know that they are different, ergo I don' go around eating ... yeah, but the analogy does work, because ovulation is not laying an egg, it is releasing one from an ovary, and as far as that is concerned chickens are the same as humans, because they also have ovaries. Therefore, laying is not ovulation, it is essentially shedding an unfertilised egg and the thing that holds it, which is the same as a human period. The fact that they are classified differently does not demonstrate anything as far as I can tell. Also remember that an "egg" is actually a cell, not a yolk and white packaged in a shell. As for do I remember, I'm an A Level student (I don't know what that is in America, but I'm 17) and I'm taking 2 biology exams in the next two weeks, I know about taxonomy.

Good luck on your exams. I don't envy you having to go through that. Fortunately, I'm done with all that, having earned 3 college degrees (even graduated magna cum laude with advanced honors). What a relief they're over!

 

[WeLuvRuckus]

Dumbest thing I ever heard from a nameless person who was thinking about getting chickens " we only need to get a couple chickens because we really don't eat that many eggs you know they lay 12 eggs a day" " that's why they have the dozen egg cartoons" I just walked away

 

[annewandering]

That is so hilarious!!!

 

[Achio]

Quote from my grandmother, "So, the chickens lay eggs and the roosters protect them?"


Craigslist ad "2 chickens and 1 rooster for sale."

Drives me crazy when people call hens chickens. I mean, they're all chickens!

 

[7 Biddies]

Dumbest thing I ever heard from a nameless person who was thinking about getting chickens " we only need to get a couple chickens because we really don't eat that many eggs you know they lay 12 eggs a day" " that's why they have the dozen egg cartoons" I just walked away

How thoughtful of the chickens to lay an even dozen. Makes everything so neat and tidy

I guess that's where the expression "*cheeper* <sic> by the dozen" comes from.