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

[Sheltiegal02]

haha!

 

[Sheltiegal02]

haha!

 

[TREX]

4. From same brother-in-law "The really big eggs we avoid too since they were made using artificial growth hormones" (same long conversation about different breeds)

The USDA banned the use of hormones in chickens years ago. The information is easy to obtain. I'm not sure why people are still so misinformed.
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/co...ultry-preparation/chicken-from-farm-to-table/

 

[ohju1ia]

There are two people in my class and they were talking about about how they don't like eggs. They thought that you don't need a rooster to have chickens forming in an egg. Another motive for not eating eggs is that they might be preventing the life of a little chicken. I was so tempted to turn around and tell them that you need a rooster for chickens and the eggs have to be incubated or sat on for chickens to form. Commercial eggs aren't exposed to a rooster. People need to think outside the box. :/

My friends husband convinced her of this as well. He said he cracked a store bought egg once and a little baby chick fell out. Poor girl believed him.

 

[Extra Java]

Many people think blood spots/meat spots are embryos.

Quite common inside Marans eggs due to porphyrins/hemoglobin in the coating process by the way.

Sorry...probably too much information.

 

[TREX]

MIL said that it was good I was getting a rooster otherwise I would have chickens but no eggs. I laughed at her and asked her what her period was. It's all the nutrients that your body saves up for IF you get pregnant. That's the same thing eggs without a rooster are. IMO. She blinked a couple of times and I think she got it. Of course now my sister in law thinks that's what the blood spot is... Lol. I tried but I failed.

Actually a period is not quite what it is. Ovulation and menstruation are 2 separate things. Ovulation of course being the act of releasing the egg and menstruation in human females being what happens if the ovum is not fertilized in time for a pregnancy to occur. Chickens have a different reproductive set up than we human ladies so comparing it to our reproductive cycle may be a little more confusing than helpful, especially for people who know next to nothing about chickens in the first place.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I'm willing to bet 75%+ of the people who purchase eggs have never seen where eggs come from. They'd be horrified. It is so rare that ANY animal.. or some plants.. are actually kept in super sanitary conditions prior to being cleaned up/butchered/etc for market.

Also every time one of my co workers mentions my chickens and are you going to eat their eggs (I'm super proud of my chickens bug eating habits and share all too frequently that my neighbors complain about roaches and I have only seen one live roach .. and it was gone in like 3 seconds) due to the bug eating. None of my coworkers right now are vegans/vegetarians. All of them are pork fanatics. I like to point out hog farms every time they try to bring that one up. It's Nebraska for gods sake, at some point if they've gone ANYWHERE in the midwest they've almost had to have driven by a pig farm, poultry farm, or feed lot. The one that was slow I finally sent them an article from discovery about how much better free range chickens (with access to greens/bugs/etc) eggs are. They were shocked. I then I decided to add a different tact. The chickens eat the bugs so they can give us nutrients so we don't have to eat the bugs. It sunk in. NOTE: This person is actually really smart, so it kind of surprised me when they argued so hard against the whole free range chicken thing.

I think to some extent though people get a little weird about organic and "free range" because they've grown up on store bought "normal" products and don't really see what the problem is or why they should pay more.

Freak out beef eaters even more by telling them chicken poop is used as cattle feed! http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ag61.html Perhaps mention this as your co-workers are biting into a "clean" BigMac.

 

[ohju1ia]

Freak out beef eaters even more by telling them chicken poop is used as cattle feed!  http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ag61.html Perhaps mention this as your co-workers are biting into a "clean" BigMac.

I'm going to barf

 

[cassie]

Actually a period is not quite what it is. Ovulation and menstruation are 2 separate things. Ovulation of course being the act of releasing the egg and menstruation in human females being what happens if the ovum is not fertilized in time for a pregnancy to occur. Chickens have a different reproductive set up than we human ladies so comparing it to our reproductive cycle may be a little more confusing than helpful, especially for people who know next to nothing about chickens in the first place.

Or human reproduction, either.

 

[Extra Java]

Originally Posted by LeslieDJoyce

Freak out beef eaters even more by telling them chicken poop is used as cattle feed! http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ag61.htmlPerhaps mention this as your co-workers are biting into a "clean" BigMac.

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WHAT?! I didn't know those sanitary commercial chickens pooped.

This is some AWESOME amunnition for us!!!

Use this as a feather in your cap...PUN intended!