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

[Marans rule]

The funniest thing someone asked me was "cool you have a rooster! I had a rooster too! Is your rooster a boy or a girl?" She was from the city and she claimed to have chickens. For some reason I doubt that!

 

[RedneckGurl]

In this day and age, with the worldwide web and Google, it amazes me that people would argue so strenuously about such topics as "you need a rooster to get eggs" or "chickens don't lay blue or green shelled eggs". Their urge to "show their superiority" only results in them showing their ignorance and arrogance. If I hear anything that I don't particularly believe to be true, or think someone might be pulling my leg, I keep my mouth shut and head for the nearest computer. Usually no more than a few minutes later, I have my answers...either I was correct and the person WAS pulling my leg, OR I find out that loe and behold I still don't know everything there is to know; HOWEVER I did just add one more thing to the list of things I DO know. It almost makes you want to cart around an iPad or tablet with you so you could help these poor idiots out but I have to admit, letting them make total fools out of themselves is a lot more fun and rewarding.

 

[RachaelS]

In this day and age, with the worldwide web and Google, it amazes me that people would argue so strenuously about such topics as "you need a rooster to get eggs" or "chickens don't lay blue or green shelled eggs". Their urge to "show their superiority" only results in them showing their ignorance and arrogance. If I hear anything that I don't particularly believe to be true, or think someone might be pulling my leg, I keep my mouth shut and head for the nearest computer. Usually no more than a few minutes later, I have my answers...either I was correct and the person WAS pulling my leg, OR I find out that loe and behold I still don't know everything there is to know; HOWEVER I did just add one more thing to the list of things I DO know. It almost makes you want to cart around an iPad or tablet with you so you could help these poor idiots out but I have to admit, letting them make total fools out of themselves is a lot more fun and rewarding.

We actually do that in our work lunch room. We talk about the oddest things and having an iphone is very handy. Such as do birds have sphincters, is a prune really a dried plumb, are all grasshoppers locust, how do peanuts grow etc.... we learn a ton in a very short time and have fun doing it.

 

[loveourbirds]

I just had someone point at a OEGB rooster and ask if that's what they use for Cornish hens.

I have no idea were people come up with this stuff. I pointed to a pen of Cornish rock crosses and said that's what they use.. his response "those are to big to be what im talking about" after I explained to him that they butcher them early for the little game hens, he said "I will never eat one of those again, they kill them when they are babies." I gave up, didn't have the heart to tell him most of the chicken he eats was 9 weeks old.

 

[CyndiChick]

I had a gent tell me he won't raise chickens because you can only eat the ugly ones, and he doesn't want to get attached and then have to kill them. I asked why he would have to kill them and he said it is agricultural law- the ugly chickens have to be slaughtered... *facepalm *

 

[jesirose]

I just had someone point at a OEGB rooster and ask if that's what they use for Cornish hens.

I have no idea were people come up with this stuff. I pointed to a pen of Cornish rock crosses and said that's what they use.. his response "those are to big to be what im talking about" after I explained to him that they butcher them early for the little game hens, he said "I will never eat one of those again, they kill them when they are babies." I gave up, didn't have the heart to tell him most of the chicken he eats was 9 weeks old.

Seems like if you had shared a little more knowledge, you would have helped someone. Instead you just let him be ignorant and judged him for it.

 

[Amastacia]

I had a gent tell me he won't raise chickens because you can only eat the ugly ones, and he doesn't want to get attached and then have to kill them. I asked why he would have to kill them and he said it is agricultural law- the ugly chickens have to be slaughtered... *facepalm *

...beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

are you sure he wasn't joking? because that seems sillier than most comments i've heard about. admittedly, i am often amazed at what people believe, but still.

 

[Onyx9370]

Seems like if you had shared a little more knowledge, you would have helped someone. Instead you just let him be ignorant and judged him for it.

Well, this thread is essentially for the purpose of poking fun at the ignorant people. It's not that we don't want to help or correct the people who don't know any better. It is mainly the fact that so many people will stick to their guns about something that we know they are wrong about. And we wonder... they know they have no experience, and they see me over here raising chickens, why do they feel the need to try to tell me how to do it? Even though they are wrong!? lol. This is a way for us chicken folk to release some of our exasperation at the people who continually judge us, and try to tell us how to run our flock. Or the ones who simply feel the need to tell us everything about everything when they learn we have chickens. Let's try to keep it friendly, and not judge one another as we get that plenty from other people. And truth be told, most of the people we try to correct or provide correct info to will still argue with us to no end. So I know many people have given up trying to explain or correct things. It's easier to just let it go.

 

[jesirose]

I think there's a difference between the type of person who states "facts" and won't be willing to learn, and the type of person who when told that a Cornish Hen is a baby chicken declares they won't eat them anymore. That second person probably also would have wanted to know that the chicken they buy in the grocery is 8 weeks old. It sounds like they would have been open to learning about other options. That's not being dumb and argumentative. It's ignorance which can be corrected, and from the sound of it the guy wanted to learn.

People ask me questions about my chickens all the time. I'm talking about the difference between someone who does argue and act like they know it all, and someone who takes in the new information and adjusts their own life. The guy in question sounds like he falls into the second group. I think it's a little hypocritical of us to make fun of people who simply don't know any better, did everyone here wake up one day knowing everything about chickens? No. No one deserves to be made fun of just for not knowing something. The people who argue and refuse to learn are fair game IMO.

 

[Amastacia]

considering you weren't there to have the conversation, you have no way of actually knowing what the person was like or how they would have responded. and a lot of people really don't want to know where they food comes from. it is too much for so many people in today's world to realize that they don't eat animals that had lived a "full" life and for many of them, even if you told them they wouldn't believe you. sometimes the kindest thing to do is to let them continue in their ignorance.