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

[Cuteincamo]

I work at a local feed store and recently I had a situation that blew my mind. A customer brought back her incubator, fine no big deal, "Whats going on that it's not working?"
She comes out with shes only doing it because she and her family just moved to the area, the kids had hatched eggs in school, which she thought was so cool, they never did anything like that in the big city, and she wanted to hatch out some more chicks for her kids to raise.
"Oh okay so you've never worked an incubator before?"
She shook her head, "do you know how to do it?"
I gave her a quick lesson in the basics, told her to call the store and talk to me or my assistant if she needed anything. A few weeks go by and no word, so I assume shes had success. Until she calls one day and tells me shes still having problems.
"Who are you buying your eggs from, its possible they aren't any good."
the phone goes quiet for a second and finally she says, "Safeway."
Thats our local grocery store.....

*Sigh*

 

[TREX]

I work at a local feed store and recently I had a situation that blew my mind. A customer brought back her incubator, fine no big deal, "Whats going on that it's not working?"
She comes out with shes only doing it because she and her family just moved to the area, the kids had hatched eggs in school, which she thought was so cool, they never did anything like that in the big city, and she wanted to hatch out some more chicks for her kids to raise.
"Oh okay so you've never worked an incubator before?"
She shook her head, "do you know how to do it?"
I gave her a quick lesson in the basics, told her to call the store and talk to me or my assistant if she needed anything. A few weeks go by and no word, so I assume shes had success. Until she calls one day and tells me shes still having problems.
"Who are you buying your eggs from, its possible they aren't any good."
the phone goes quiet for a second and finally she says, "Safeway."
Thats our local grocery store.....

*Sigh*

 

[Peaceeagle1]

It is truely amazing and sad that some ppl( a lot actually- city slickers) think milk, eggs and meat come from the grocery store. They have no idea they originally came from animals.And they are appalled by the thought of that!

 

[Extra Java]

I work at a local feed store and recently I had a situation that blew my mind. A customer brought back her incubator, fine no big deal, "Whats going on that it's not working?"
She comes out with shes only doing it because she and her family just moved to the area, the kids had hatched eggs in school, which she thought was so cool, they never did anything like that in the big city, and she wanted to hatch out some more chicks for her kids to raise.
"Oh okay so you've never worked an incubator before?"
She shook her head, "do you know how to do it?"
I gave her a quick lesson in the basics, told her to call the store and talk to me or my assistant if she needed anything. A few weeks go by and no word, so I assume shes had success. Until she calls one day and tells me shes still having problems.
"Who are you buying your eggs from, its possible they aren't any good."
the phone goes quiet for a second and finally she says, "Safeway."
Thats our local grocery store.....

*Sigh*

I think I'll laugh for days on that one!

 

[loveourbirds]

I have another cow story:

when I was 18 I decided to take one of our Holstein dairy heifers to the county fair. her name was Lady, I had bottle fed her from a 3 day old calf. I would pat my cheek and she would give me cow kisses. at our farm, she had a field that was about 15 acres she shared with 5-8 other calves.

in the show arena, I couldn't get her to position her legs right for the judge. i guess the excitement of all the people also caught up with her, she layed down in the show ring. the judge, an extention agent, my 4-H adviser and myself took about 15 minutes to get her back up. when the judge talked about it over the microphone he mentioned that i wasn't the greatest showman, but i had a wonderful smile, and he called me "Hollywood". unfortunately that name stuck for years.

at the end of the week, we brought lady home. she had been tied to one spot all week, i knew she was going to love being back in the field. i hooked her lead strap up, and wrapped it around my hand 3 or 4 times. i had my brother open the door to the trailer, and i learned a valuable lesson. i cant run as fast as a cow who is happy to be home. she drug me about 300 feet though that field LOL.

 

[sweettea75]

My friend's husband, who says his grandparents were farmers ad considers himself a country boy, swears that commercially slaughtered animals are slaughtered more humanely than those slaughtered at home. This conversation started because I refused to see anything wrong with the supposed Hispanic custom of raising goats to slaughter for the meat. (I don't actually know if it really is a Hispanic custom or not, but I've heard more than one person claim that "Mexicans" slaughter goats in their backyards.) I always say, "So? You can't buy goat meat in the store, how else are they going to get it?"

 

[loveourbirds]

the U.S. is about the only place that is based on beef.. most other countries are based on goat.

if a person knows what they are doing, it should be pretty much painless for the animal. I cant tell you what way is more humane as far as the kill method. but I can tell you most animals don't like to be shipped, crowded in small pens, and shocked to make them go where we want them to go.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Slaughtering is a pretty big issue, and people tend to feel passionately about it -- and it accounts for a fair number of "dumb" things I've heard about livestock. People in the USA (and England) are mostly well removed from the realities of slaughtering animals so it can be very difficult to imagine.

When we did our first batch of turkeys (only a few) and and sold them alive, we sold them all to Hispanics (who wanted to make sure the birds were slaughtered within a few hours of cooking time) or people needing to slaughter them according to their religious beliefs.

After doing some practical research and direct comparisons (we are mostly Hispanic here, so the birds that we culled were slaughtered the Hispanic way), I believe the best tasting birds are those which are not transported for slaughter, have bleed out very well, and are well rested in the refrigerator before they are eaten ... I don't think you'll find those in a grocery store here in the USA, which is a shame.

 

[animallover505]

I've been helping at 4-H kids in the kitchen, and we made deviled eggs. I took some fresh eggs, and the 4-H leader told everyone. One of the little boys goes, "Real eggs from real chickens??" He's so cute! I explained to him that all eggs are from real chickens, haha.

 

[escape]

My daughter-in-law likes to bake. She was telling me that one of the girls in the office warned her not to try tricking her into eating home-grown eggs by baking any treats with eggs from home.

When my daughter-in-law asked why she didn't want any baked goods with farm eggs in them, the co-worker simply said "I only eat eggs from the store. They are much cleaner."