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

[Weirdness555]

My mum thought the blood spot meant it was fertile too, but it didn't stop her eating them, it was just some conclusion she had come to, it wasn't until I found this forum that I read that that wasn't what the blood spots were.

 

[lazy gardener]

Not an unusual conclusion. I've talked to a number of chicken keepers who think a blood spot means the egg is fertile. I talked to a lady a few months ago who gets upset about the white connective tissue (? chalazae??) that holds the yolk in place. She takes the time to remove every bit of it.

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

The stupidest thing someone has said to me is that if you have a rooster in with your hens, the eggs will have salmonella in them!!

The funniest/stupidest thing someone has said about my birds is "Are those turkeys?" Talking about my English Orpingtons, my roosters weigh 10.5 lbs and the hens weigh 7-8 lbs and are still growing so I think I will take that as a complement! My Orps are as big as turkeys LOL

 

[MackChick]

"How do you get your chickens to lay without a rooster around?"

 

[Kiniska]

Not an unusual conclusion.  I've talked to a number of chicken keepers who think a blood spot means the egg is fertile.  I talked to a lady a few months ago who gets upset about the white connective tissue (? chalazae??) that holds the yolk in place.  She takes the time to remove every bit of it. 

My mom used to remove the connective tissue bit when ever she cooked. Would get mad if she caught me cooking an egg and not removing it. After I moved out I was always too lazy to continue it. I should ask her what the reasoning was. LOL

 

[lazy gardener]

She probably did it that way b/c her mother did it that way! Reminds me of the young bride who called her mother to ask how to cook a pot roast. Along with the usual instructions for seasoning it and surrounding it with vegetables, she was told to cut an inch off the end of it before cooking it. She did as instructed, but was bothered, b/c it sounded wasteful. So the next day, she called her mother and asked why. The reply: "because that's the way my mother always did it!" So she called her grandmother... The reply: After her grandmother stopped laughing, she said, "I never had a roasting pan big enough to hold the whole piece of meat."

 

[Kiniska]

I have heard that one a few times. I even have an old cook book that tells you to cut the end of the roast and save it for later. Farther on it mentions a regular pan being difficult to fit a large roast in. Perhaps the old wood burning stoves were smaller than the modern gas and electric versions? Mom would also peel mushrooms before cooking and some other odd things I just don't bother with.

 

[cassie]

The ovens in most of the old wood ranges were smaller than in the modern stoves. you can check this out yourself. You can still buy wood ranges. Just google wood ranges or wood cookstoves and you can check out the specs for yourself.

 

[Crickett]

My dad always insisted on removing that white bit. He swore it was "rooster sperms "

 

[TheGoodLifeGirl]

Some of these have most likely been written on the thread before as I've heard them more and more out of the mouths of friends & acquaintances, so it's probably quite a common thought amongst non-chicken keepers.

Some funny things I've heard since keeping chickens.

• 'Oh you can't eat those! They've been left outside under the chicken for too long, you need to take them as soon as they've been layed and put them in the fridge!'
  
• 'I think it's cruel you keep your chickens in a coop and run, they should be free!' (Anyone who keeps chickens will know if they were let to roam free all the time they'd be eaten pretty quickly by other animals, and I think that's more cruel when I could have kept them safe and living longer!)
  
• 'I don't know how you could eat that, it's touched the chickens butt, what if she's pooped or pee'd on it? At least the one's from the store are clean!'
  
• 'You're not going to eat the chickens right?' when I responded with "We might do, yes" they shuddered in disgust, and these are people who eat chicken from the store and regularly go hunting deer etc.??
  
• 'Why would you want chickens? They're dirty, smelly, aggressive things!' <- this one I get a lot!
  
• 'Why is that piece of wood there?'
  'It's for perching'
  'Haha, chickens don't perch! That's Parrots!'
  So I called the chickens over with some food and they all jumped up on the perch... I guess they'd never seen a chicken perching before?
  
• 'What if there is a baby chick in it?'
  'You need a rooster for that'
  'No you don't, you need the rooster to get eggs!' as I'm picking out the eggs from the coop that has NO ROOSTER in?
  
• 'Don't let your son (1 year old) near them!'
  'Why? He loves them?'
  'No, they'll make him sick and could peck him!'
  'They peck him all the time, he thinks it's funny!'