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

[Michelle82]

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So know the feeling, but people who believe they are right don't listen. People are willing to join causes they know nothing about. We have an organisation her in South-Africa - I think the name is KwaZuluNatal Wildlife that tried to pass a law that ALL animals that are found in the wild may not be kept in captivity... You know ;Like goldfish and budjies and pheasants and rabbits.... It cost us a lot of money and several law suits to stop that one... They have friends in government and we're still fighting...

 

[RedneckGurl]

Quote: I have the heart for it, just not the stamina. I told my husband the other night as I collapsed into bed that I knew why pioneer women dropped dead before they turned 40 - they worked themselves to death and were just too tired to go on living! I only have two acres, a medium sized garden, and 17 chickens but DANG! It's a lot of hard work - especially when the mercury creeps above 90 degrees. Why oh why couldn't I have come to the realization that I wanted to live in the country when I was in my twenties? But no...I had to wait until my 40's. How in the heck did my grandmother do this into her 70's? and as a widow to boot?

 

[cassie]

My mom informed me that she would not be eating my eggs when she come to visit, as they come straight from the chickens butt. Nor would she eat our chicken meat since it was raised where they can walk in their own poop. I about lost it. She has no clue. When I started to tell her how it really is for egg/meat chickens, she stopped me and told me that ignorance is bliss and changed the subject.

Don't get me wrong, I love my Mama dearly, but I am so very thankful that I got a lot of my smarts from my daddy. Who took us hunting and fishing as kids and let us learn as we went. Which taught us an awful lot about life.

Deb

PLEASE ask your mother where she thinks store eggs come from. Please. I would really like to know. I mean I really really would.

 

[hogster160]

PLEASE ask your mother where she thinks store eggs come from.  Please.  I would really like to know.  I mean I really really would.

I know right! All I could do was look at her. She's not old, 76, but so set in her ways! She's also a double amputee diabetic, who is also blind, so she really doesn't want things to change. She lost where her food came from a long time ago. Love her, but she's crazy on some things lol actually she's my BFF.

Deb

 

[Danishennies]

Wish I could post a video from my phone! My Lewis Roo roos at me when I say Mamma loves Lewis. He does every time. One of my other girls Emma and Dunken will come to me in call! So I am going to say you can train them.

 

[GreenMum]

I think it's all in the particular dog. I once got bit on the hand by a very sweet looking pomeranian. Meanwhile I withdrew my hand and found a doberman licking it as if to say, "sorry my friend bit you." So back to chickens when I was a kid we had this rooster that would just chase me everywhere! I was scared to death of this rooster and when my mom found out. I realized how much I loved that rooster in my tummy.

When we first got our birds, we had roosters too. Our Red (that was his name) was just gorgeous, he was a Welsummer roo and beeeeautiful. About a year after getting our layer flock we decided that we would give broilers a go. Just another step on the road to growing all our own food. We got the cute little yellow chicks and the kids just went ga-ga over them. At dinner we were discussing the fluffy little things and the kids got very upset when it became clear to them that these chicks would one day be dinner. The moans and tears and whines!! Without missing a beat I seemingly changed the subject and asked them all how they were enjoying their dinner. All three of them piped up that it was a very yummy meal (and truthfully I was having no problems getting them to eat that day) to which I calmly replied: "It's chicken."

One day, a few weeks later, my middle son who was about three at the time was out in the yard with me. He was wearing a red sweatshirt...sigh...and Red cleared the miniscule fence that was their "yard" and ran towards my little boy. Oh, he looked amazing running at full tilt across the yard, head forward and his feathers all stream-lined from the speed. My son, seeing him coming, turned and started to run too. Red was too fast for him though and jumped on his back knocking him down. I reached my son a split-second after Red did, so no harm was done...except to my son's pride. After I got his tears dried and his clothes wiped off he looked at me sullenly and said: I think we should eat Red.

 

[Danishennies]

Ok I have a stupid comment. My friend calls and asks how Roosters have sex cuz she heard they do not have penis's. so I explain. She then says well I know they don't pee. I said oh, how do you figure well they have no peehole. Humm I said well they do pee same time they poop. She then says so they lay eggs from the same place as they poop and pee? I said well yes. She gasps and says I am so NOT eating your girls eggs. I am going to buy them feom the store!! I said well where do you think the store bought comes from? She says well a factory a machine makes them. I went quiet and sighed* then she says well does laying eggs make the chickens stop breathing and I said why do you ask that? She said well they breath from their butts!! I said very calm girl you are sooooo confused!!! First Eggs from store do not come from factory they come from chickens which have a very sad life. Also my chickens breath from their mouths. They have nostrals. Oh also they have tongues. So I told her she is going to have to come and watch my chickens one day!! Wow usually she is smarter than that!!!

 

[GreenMum]

I have the heart for it, just not the stamina. I told my husband the other night as I collapsed into bed that I knew why pioneer women dropped dead before they turned 40 - they worked themselves to death and were just too tired to go on living! I only have two acres, a medium sized garden, and 17 chickens but DANG! It's a lot of hard work - especially when the mercury creeps above 90 degrees. Why oh why couldn't I have come to the realization that I wanted to live in the country when I was in my twenties? But no...I had to wait until my 40's. How in the heck did my grandmother do this into her 70's? and as a widow to boot?

Oh I feel your pain! Even my eldest son has commented on how different things would be if I had been into this lifestyle when I was raising him (in my 20's); but nooooo! I too had to wait until I had three more children and was in my 40's as well!!
I find the biggest hurdle for me is time management. I refuse to believe that I can't do everything that I want to do both outside and inside my house. I am always shocked and dismayed when I have to spend two full days getting my house back to a livable cleanliness level.

I'm not even sure how it gets so filthy when there's no one in it all day!

 

[GreenMum]

Meh I have a few that eat their own eggs

Ya..me too. Unfortunately she is just the sweetest hen I have. My daughter named her Sweetie and I stupidly let it stick. Black Jersey Giant...she's gonna be hard to..ahem..deal with.

 

[buttercup95]

So here I am just having a normal day and I'm buying my groceries when I run into a friend. We get to talking and he says he was thinking about getting some chickens and how he would like to do it to help support his family and teach them where their food comes from. So I told him to bring his kids buy this weekend and I'll have them help me feed while I show him what he needs to know about chickens. Then he starts to buy a chicken for dinner at the store and I tell him that I have a chicken at home ready to eat if he would like (trying to be ultra friendly) when he gets a wrinkled nose and says that butchering my own chickens is barbaric. He only meant teaching them where their eggs come from and sending the chickens that needed to be eaten to a butcher. I didn't even know butchers still butchered chickens for local farmers.