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

[GreenMum]

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.

We have a traveling butcher here where I live. He has apparently been doing the local farms' slaughter for about 30 years. As for an actual butcher, the only place you can take your chickens to be processed is a government facility that honestly I just don't want to be involved with. Needless to say, I'd rather do it myself. This way I know EVERYTHING about them from day 1 to end of days. How's that for a control freak?

 

[buttercup95]

We have a traveling butcher here where I live. He has apparently been doing the local farms' slaughter for about 30 years. As for an actual butcher, the only place you can take your chickens to be processed is a government facility that honestly I just don't want to be involved with. Needless to say, I'd rather do it myself. This way I know EVERYTHING about them from day 1 to end of days. How's that for a control freak?

I'm kind of crazy about it too. I harped on our local butcher for weeks before he agreed to teach me how to butcher my own pigs (which I no longer own I had too many and they just got nasty, because I didn't have time for them) I've known how to butcher my own chickens since, well, I can't really remember not knowing how to butcher chickens.

 

[cassie]

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.

I've said it before. I have a niece who thinks I am an axe murderer because I raise and process my own meat chickens. I told her I don't use an axe.....

 

[buttercup95]

I've said it before. I have a niece who thinks I am an axe murderer because I raise and process my own meat chickens. I told her I don't use an axe.....

Well hopefully I can explain to him tomorrow that it's not super gross or anything. I tried to do it today, but I was just too frustrated to get my point across. I think he has this idea where I'm leaving them outside with flies all over rotting flesh or something.

 

[member 142084]

I did 20 last month. My kids helped and everything. Found it interesting to find all those tiny to largely developed eggs inside the hens.. and the mostly gutted rooster that squawked when you pushed on his chest cavity. I had a pack of greenhorns help me and it was a blast. XD but messy, hot, and full of yellowjackets. My kids all watched and my 8 year old also chopped a head off and plucked 2. My son was hilarious about the first duck we ever dressed He was 3.

him: "Mommy what u doing ducky?" Furrows brows.

me: Taking his feathers off (what a pain mind you they don't stop coming)

him: "no do dat! put duck back. he go in der." points to pen.

me: but we are going to eat ducky

him: no eat ducky him go in der

me: but ducky yummy

him: huffs in disgust and walks away. comes back 5 minutes later "Ducky yummy?"

me: Yes ducky yummy

him: okay we eat ducky............... and he goes back to playing.

 

[ghostwolf211]

I did 20 last month. My kids helped and everything. Found it interesting to find all those tiny to largely developed eggs inside the hens.. and the mostly gutted rooster that squawked when you pushed on his chest cavity. I had a pack of greenhorns help me and it was a blast. XD but messy, hot, and full of yellowjackets. My kids all watched and my 8 year old also chopped a head off and plucked 2. My son was hilarious about the first duck we ever dressed He was 3.

him: "Mommy what u doing ducky?" Furrows brows.

me: Taking his feathers off (what a pain mind you they don't stop coming)

him: "no do dat! put duck back. he go in der." points to pen.

me: but we are going to eat ducky

him: no eat ducky him go in der

me: but ducky yummy

him: huffs in disgust and walks away. comes back 5 minutes later "Ducky yummy?"

me: Yes ducky yummy

him: okay we eat ducky............... and he goes back to playing.

HAHAHA....That's fantastic!!!.....If you don't want to pluck the feathers (because you are right....they go on forever), when I shoot a game bird (grouse, pheasant, duck, goose, turkey) I skin them....It's less mess and so much easier

 

[Kiniska]

I did 20 last month.  My kids helped and everything. Found it interesting to find all those tiny to largely developed eggs inside the hens.. and the  mostly gutted rooster that squawked when you pushed on his chest cavity.  I had a pack of greenhorns help me and it was a blast. XD  but messy, hot, and full of yellowjackets.  My kids all watched and my 8 year old also chopped a head off and plucked 2.   My son was hilarious about the first duck we ever dressed  He was 3.

him: "Mommy what u doing ducky?" Furrows brows.

me:  Taking his feathers off (what a pain mind you they don't stop coming)

him: "no do dat! put duck back. he go in der."  points to pen.

me:  but we are going to eat ducky

him: no eat ducky him go in der 

me:  but ducky yummy

him:  huffs in disgust and walks away.  comes back 5 minutes later "Ducky yummy?"

me: Yes ducky yummy

him: okay we eat ducky............... and he goes back to playing.

Too cute!
By the way, some of the girls I work with claim the partially developed eggs are a delicacy. They like the livers gizzards and feet. I give all those parts to them cause we won't eat it.

 

[ozexpat]

Too cute!
By the way, some of the girls I work with claim the partially developed eggs are a delicacy. They like the livers gizzards and feet. I give all those parts to them cause we won't eat it.

You must work with Filipinas then

 

[Kiniska]

You must work with Filipinas then

Actually, they are Cubans. WOW can those ladies cook!

 

[ozexpat]

Actually, they are Cubans. WOW can those ladies cook!

They sure can. There are actually many dishes in cuban cuisine that have similar dishes in the Philippines. The Spanish Galleons plied between the Gulf and Asia.