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

[Afterburner]

My nearly white EE lays almost white/very light tan eggs. My Maran lays very dark eggs while the Welsummer lays medium to dark eggs. One of my coworkers who has seen my birds was very confused when I gave him a dozen lighter brown eggs from my Barred Rock and Austrolope. When I asked why, he thought all dark chickens laid dark eggs.

 

[7 Biddies]

"... my two pigs were named Bacon and Sausage. My turkeys were Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't really name my chickens, other than a few of them, but I have a friend who names hers things like Original and Extra Crispy."

"My cousin and I named a pig Wilbur after the character in Charlotte's Web when were young adults...."


I have one cat named Claude (from Claude Cat in the cartoon with the yapping puppy), and another named Milo from the movie Milo & Otis. I once heard of someone who named their house Laurel and Holly. I love a good sense of humor.

 

[dealswonderhens]

"... my two pigs were named Bacon and Sausage. My turkeys were Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't really name my chickens, other than a few of them, but I have a friend who names hers things like Original and Extra Crispy."

"My cousin and I named a pig Wilbur after the character in Charlotte's Web when were young adults...."


I have one cat named Claude (from Claude Cat in the cartoon with the yapping puppy), and another named Milo from the movie Milo & Otis. I once heard of someone who named their house Laurel and Holly. I love a good sense of humor.

My wife knew had friends that named their cats Salvador and Dali...

 

[yinepu]

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we have several.. two are named "Madness" and "Mayhem".. they live up to their names rather well......

 

[CGinJCMO]

About extra roos hatched- dh says "I'm not eating that because you talked to it!" Says the same thing for if I were to get pigs or a cow to raise for meat.

My hubby won't eat any of the extra cockerels I process. "Won't eat a chicken he knew" he says.
Thing is... I feed, I water, I gather eggs, I process the boys. He built the coop but doesn't do daily chicken chores so how well does he really know these chickens that he won't eat?

I don't know if he doesn't truly trust me to get all the feathers or guts or ??? out or if he'd rather buy a bunch of chicken legs and another package of breast (the parts we typically eat).

CG

 

[salt and pepper]

Lol, My sister was at my house today, and decided to bake cookies. Well, she was about to put the eggs in the bowl. And announced " I am NOT using any blue eggs!" I asked her why, and she said " it isn't natural!!! Especially after I read this article that said that blue eggs are caused by a disease." I pointed out that it had to be natural, since there are many wild birds that lay blue eggs, and her response was " and I don't plan on eating those eggs either!
She will gladly use all of my brown eggs I have, but refuses to use the blue and green eggs, some how, they seriously freak her out!

 

[Weirdness555]

I think that's so silly, blue eggs are awesome, that's why we're getting cream legbars!

 

[Araucana16]

We are doing an egg drop lab in science, and I am going ALL OUT!

I'm candling all the eggs to find the one that is least likely to break, how much bacteria is in the egg and how porous they are. I'm just going crazy!

And today my friend and I went over to the eggs and candled them again, and then Ellie shook one just for fun. Then she got this horrified look on her face. "I can feel it moving." She meant that she could feel the egg moving around inside the shell (as eggs certainly should not do.) We tested all of them and found four, yes four, out of 20, that I would feel comfortable eating. Half sloshed like that (GROSS!) and the other half were SOOOOO messed up (like you could see how porous and bacteria ridden they were) and had shell deformities that are linked to stress.

Then we got into this massive discussion. She asked why they sloshed, and I explained that the membrane around the air sack had broken so the egg was leaking into the air sack, allowing the egg room to move around. I'm not sure how that happened.... some were reallyyyy bad. You could literally hear and feel the albumen and yolk just slipping back in forth in the egg.

Then we got into this weird discussion about fertilized eggs. Ellie was CONVINCED that eating fertilized eggs is like chicken abortion

Then she was vastly confused about how exactly they are fertilized. For example, I think she asked if the male CHICKS (not chickens, CHICKS) have to fertilize the female CHICKS after hatching for them to live.... I didn't even know how to reply to that. And after that, I had to explain that you actually could eat fertilized eggs. Somehow I brought up that next spring I'm going to hatch some chicks, and she said : "Well you have to have a rooster to do that, right?" I said yes. "So, then all of the eggs could be baby chickens?" I told her that in normal flocks, 75% to 90% of the eggs laid by hens with roosters around are fertilized and capable of hatching baby chickens. "Okay. So, then how do you know which you can hatch and which you can eat?" I said that you just pick up the eggs laid that day, or yesterday, etc., and "set" them, or give them to a broody. Not all will hatch, because some will die during incubation and some will be infertile. "Yeah, yeah, I got that, but you obviously can't EAT the fertilized eggs, right?" I just shook my head.. and told her you can. She looked disgusted, but I told her that it didn't change the eggs at all (other than now they can hatch babies...)

And now my teacher wants me to explain this all to the class because apparently she didn't know any of this either (most of the conversation took place in front of her).

Kill me now.

 

[ronott1]

We are doing an egg drop lab in science, and I am going ALL OUT!

I'm candling all the eggs to find the one that is least likely to break, how much bacteria is in the egg and how porous they are. I'm just going crazy!

And today my friend and I went over to the eggs and candled them again, and then Ellie shook one just for fun. Then she got this horrified look on her face. "I can feel it moving." She meant that she could feel the egg moving around inside the shell (as eggs certainly should not do.) We tested all of them and found four, yes four, out of 20, that I would feel comfortable eating. Half sloshed like that (GROSS!) and the other half were SOOOOO messed up (like you could see how porous and bacteria ridden they were) and had shell deformities that are linked to stress.

Then we got into this massive discussion. She asked why they sloshed, and I explained that the membrane around the air sack had broken so the egg was leaking into the air sack, allowing the egg room to move around. I'm not sure how that happened.... some were reallyyyy bad. You could literally hear and feel the albumen and yolk just slipping back in forth in the egg.

Then we got into this weird discussion about fertilized eggs. Ellie was CONVINCED that eating fertilized eggs is like chicken abortion

Then she was vastly confused about how exactly they are fertilized. For example, I think she asked if the male CHICKS (not chickens, CHICKS) have to fertilize the female CHICKS after hatching for them to live.... I didn't even know how to reply to that. And after that, I had to explain that you actually could eat fertilized eggs. Somehow I brought up that next spring I'm going to hatch some chicks, and she said : "Well you have to have a rooster to do that, right?" I said yes. "So, then all of the eggs could be baby chickens?" I told her that in normal flocks, 75% to 90% of the eggs laid by hens with roosters around are fertilized and capable of hatching baby chickens. "Okay. So, then how do you know which you can hatch and which you can eat?" I said that you just pick up the eggs laid that day, or yesterday, etc., and "set" them, or give them to a broody. Not all will hatch, because some will die during incubation and some will be infertile. "Yeah, yeah, I got that, but you obviously can't EAT the fertilized eggs, right?" I just shook my head.. and told her you can. She looked disgusted, but I told her that it didn't change the eggs at all (other than now they can hatch babies...)

And now my teacher wants me to explain this all to the class because apparently she didn't know any of this either (most of the conversation took place in front of her).

Kill me now.

Tell them that the faeries come by and sprinkle magic dust on them....

 

[Hinotori]

We are doing an egg drop lab in science, and I am going ALL OUT!

I'm candling all the eggs to find the one that is least likely to break, how much bacteria is in the egg and how porous they are. I'm just going crazy!

And today my friend and I went over to the eggs and candled them again, and then Ellie shook one just for fun. Then she got this horrified look on her face. "I can feel it moving." She meant that she could feel the egg moving around inside the shell (as eggs certainly should not do.) We tested all of them and found four, yes four, out of 20, that I would feel comfortable eating. Half sloshed like that (GROSS!) and the other half were SOOOOO messed up (like you could see how porous and bacteria ridden they were) and had shell deformities that are linked to stress.

Then we got into this massive discussion. She asked why they sloshed, and I explained that the membrane around the air sack had broken so the egg was leaking into the air sack, allowing the egg room to move around. I'm not sure how that happened.... some were reallyyyy bad. You could literally hear and feel the albumen and yolk just slipping back in forth in the egg.

Then we got into this weird discussion about fertilized eggs. Ellie was CONVINCED that eating fertilized eggs is like chicken abortion

Then she was vastly confused about how exactly they are fertilized. For example, I think she asked if the male CHICKS (not chickens, CHICKS) have to fertilize the female CHICKS after hatching for them to live.... I didn't even know how to reply to that. And after that, I had to explain that you actually could eat fertilized eggs. Somehow I brought up that next spring I'm going to hatch some chicks, and she said : "Well you have to have a rooster to do that, right?" I said yes. "So, then all of the eggs could be baby chickens?" I told her that in normal flocks, 75% to 90% of the eggs laid by hens with roosters around are fertilized and capable of hatching baby chickens. "Okay. So, then how do you know which you can hatch and which you can eat?" I said that you just pick up the eggs laid that day, or yesterday, etc., and "set" them, or give them to a broody. Not all will hatch, because some will die during incubation and some will be infertile. "Yeah, yeah, I got that, but you obviously can't EAT the fertilized eggs, right?" I just shook my head.. and told her you can. She looked disgusted, but I told her that it didn't change the eggs at all (other than now they can hatch babies...)

And now my teacher wants me to explain this all to the class because apparently she didn't know any of this either (most of the conversation took place in front of her).

Kill me now.

Make sure you take a picture like this to show the difference in fertile and infertile eggs.


I found that here http://www.gabbardhatchingeggs.com/blog/fertile-vs-infertile-eggs/9/2/2011

I need to show that to my Mom next time I'm down there. I've had a hard time explaining it to her. She used to think the blood spots were from it being fertile.