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

[annagarret]

I hate to say it but DH and I just watched a reality cop show in a run down trailer park that was calling the humane society on the abused dogs and there chickens running around.......Do you think sometimes the media portrays people owning chickens in a negative way?

 

[ronott1]

I know to many people who try and hatch grocery store eggs. I was at a friends house one time and they where showing me there homemade incubator. When I looked in I saw EB (Egglands Best) on the top of the eggs.

Trader Joes and Whole Foods sell fertile eggs. They do hatch. I hatched two leghorn pullets from a dozen eggs. A member of the NYD Hatch a long hatched 3 chicks.

The two on the right are the ones I hatched.



This is one of them living on a Farm in Redding CA



The box they come in looks like this:

Of course these are not normal store eggs....

 

[lazy gardener]

I was talking with a lady who had chickens, including a rooster a number of years ago. She said she thought it would have been cool to have one of the hens go broody, but it would never happen because the hens were Black Sex-links. I said, "yes, they rarely go broody, but you could have got a bantam to brood your eggs for you." Her response... "Oh no, that couldn't have worked because the hens were sex linked, and they can't." I asked, "They can't what?" She blushed and said, "well, you know... they just can't." I don't know if I was able to convince her that they most certainly could, but the babies wouldn't be sex-linked. Go figure! (Scratch head here.)

 

[CarolinaHen]

I was talking with a lady who had chickens, including a rooster a number of years ago. She said she thought it would have been cool to have one of the hens go broody, but it would never happen because the hens were Black Sex-links. I said, "yes, they rarely go broody, but you could have got a bantam to brood your eggs for you." Her response... "Oh no, that couldn't have worked because the hens were sex linked, and they can't." I asked, "They can't what?" She blushed and said, "well, you know... they just can't." I don't know if I was able to convince her that they most certainly could, but the babies wouldn't be sex-linked. Go figure! (Scratch head here.)

 

[One Chick Two]

The other day, I ran into a lady friend in a store line, and we were casually talking about our chickens. I told her about a recent raven attack that had taken the eye of our favorite roo.

Lady (serious): "Oh, will you make him an eyepatch...?"

Me: (Imagining a pirate RIR... ARG.) "Hmm... that sure won't get his other pecked out by the other chickens."
Everyone in line behind us laughed.

 

[QueenofKings]

Inquiry about from my mother:

"The eggs that come from Wally's (our rooster) girls are really orange compared to the hen we keep in the back. Does that mean they're fertile?"

I laughed for a good 2 minutes before getting a smack on the arm and a forced explanation, that no, the difference in color was not due to the eggs being fertile vs infertile, it was the difference in food. Wally's girl eat layer pellets and scratch while the hen in the back free ranges and relies on greens.

 

[jenifry]

Sorry, no chickens of mine will be transported in a bag..of any kind.

My Dad has transported his chickens in a gunny sack for his entire life. He gave me 6 hens, and all he gave me were 3 gunny sacks. He told me that there is less danger of them hurting them selves in a cloth bag on a smooth surface than there is in a crate, cage, or kennel where they can stick a leg through. Though I was doubtful, I believed his wisdom and let them be as he gave them to me. The hens laid peacefully in the front of his pick-up for a 50 mile drive from his house to mine. It was the quietest ride I have ever had transporting chickens.

 

[jenifry]

About a month or so ago, we got new next-door neighbors. To warm them up to the idea of living next to chickens, we gave them a dozen fresh eggs. As the boyfriend brought them in, the girlfriend said, "Don't eat those! You don't know where those have been!" The boyfriend replied... "Uh... they've been next door. You don't know where your storebought eggs have been."

Love it!!

 

[suebee]

The owner of a chicken farm I once visited said he breaks up glass bottles and lets his chickens eat it for grit.

 

[lazy gardener]

That has to be absolutely the most absurd posting on this thread. It's beyond even being laughable. I don't have a clue how I would respond to that one if I heard it, but I'm sure it wouldn't be pretty!