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

[PrairieChickens]

we have a friend next door with 2 ducks and some chicks. they ducks each lay 1 a day. so they have a lot of eggs. so some people are living with them and she goes and BUYS STORE BOUGHT EGGS!!! my friend said why would you go and buy eggs if we have better eggs. she says they came out of a ducks butt. my friend says well then you dont want to know where those eggs came from

Oh yes, this reminds me, I had a gal tell me she can't eat farm fresh eggs because the dark orange yolks look weird and gross her out.

I was like, yeah... they're dark orange because they're healthier and more nutritious..

I love the "It came out of a bird's butt! I'll buy store eggs instead!" mentality. Just like with the orange-yolks-are-weird comment, the irony is that the very thing that revulses them about fresh eggs is even worse when you consider the state of storebought. The dark orange yolks are less gross than the yellow, sickly yolks of battery hen eggs, and the eggs that come from a farm-fresh source are less likely to be contaminated with "butt germs" than the storebought ones.

*shakes head sadly*

 

[kimmommy23]

I was at the farm supply store the other day and they had Australorps marked as barred rocks, so I told them they were mislabeled and they said they'd fix it. Sure enough, the next time I came in, they had barred rocks marked as Australorps.

The worst part was when I pointed it out to the employee she insisted they were actually Australorps, and that they had come in labeled that and that no matter how much they looked like barred rocks they were not barred rocks at all. My husband told me later that he thought I was about to have it out with her.

Then she attacked me with hand sanitizer even though I told her I was allergic to the perfume in it.

Yes, I know you should wash your hands after handling chicks, but I will use soap and water, thanks, and I'll do it when I'm actually done handling the chicks!

But I got out of there with a new EE roo, three black sexlinks and a new banty cochin, so it was still worth the trip.

This crap drives me bananas! I thought it was bad enough when I tried explaining to my local feed store employees the difference between Easter Eggers and "Americaunas" They insisted they were, in fact, the same breed and that the Easter Egger moniker is a common nickname. Grrrrr. Shouldn't this be required reading if you are going to sell live animals?

 

[PrairieChickens]

It is exasperating. In no other business would this be ok. You couldn't pass off "No Boundaries" shoes as "Nikes", grape juice as red wine, or a bicycle as an electric scooter. If you bought a loaf of wheat bread, then got home and discovered it was actually pumpernickel, you'd be a mite bit perturbed. Doesn't matter if pumpernickel is still a perfectly reasonable kind of bread--it's not what you wanted, and it's not what you bought.

If Orscheln's keeps up with this nonsense, I'll just have to buy ALL of my chicks online. At least then I'm guaranteed they'll be the breed and gender I paid for.

 

[ronott1]

It is exasperating. In no other business would this be ok. You couldn't pass off "No Boundaries" shoes as "Nikes", grape juice as red wine, or a bicycle as an electric scooter. If you bought a loaf of wheat bread, then got home and discovered it was actually pumpernickel, you'd be a mite bit perturbed. Doesn't matter if pumpernickel is still a perfectly reasonable kind of bread--it's not what you wanted, and it's not what you bought.

If Orscheln's keeps up with this nonsense, I'll just have to buy ALL of my chicks online. At least then I'm guaranteed they'll be the breed and gender I paid for.

I hatch them!

Feed store chicks, when you really do not know what they are suck!

Not all Black with white or yellow chicks are Australorps!

On the Australorp thread it is so sad when someone proudly post a picture of their Australorp with red neck feathers...actually a Black Sex link....

 

[PrairieChickens]

These birds were definitely barred rocks. I've raised enough of them (and hatched enough of their offspring) to know the difference between a barred rock chick and an Australorp, but this lady acted like I'd never seen a chicken in my life e_e

 

[Searsmom]

What really got me was the first time I saw a "Gluten Free" sign above the egg case at the grocery store.

 

[PrairieChickens]

What really got me was the first time I saw a "Gluten Free" sign above the egg case at the grocery store.

That's right up there with putting nutrition facts on water bottles.

 

[barbiegirl]

I seen bottled water labeled as DIET water

 

[sepaditty1]

How about this: I saw a bag of marshmallow that was proudly proclaiming, Naturally Fat Free. Like now they are somehow healthy.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: Offer them a tongue sandwhich. It must be clean came from a cows mouth.

It is exasperating. In no other business would this be ok. You couldn't pass off "No Boundaries" shoes as "Nikes", grape juice as red wine, or a bicycle as an electric scooter. If you bought a loaf of wheat bread, then got home and discovered it was actually pumpernickel, you'd be a mite bit perturbed. Doesn't matter if pumpernickel is still a perfectly reasonable kind of bread--it's not what you wanted, and it's not what you bought.

If Orscheln's keeps up with this nonsense, I'll just have to buy ALL of my chicks online. At least then I'm guaranteed they'll be the breed and gender I paid for.

I think that's why My local (and what I read here others also) Tractor Supply has just 2-3 breeds listed as whatever they are (leghorns are one of the breeds listed on one bin for people who want white eggs) they had red hens and 1 or 2 other colors offered I figured that means their suppliers could give them any of 2 or 3 different breeds (per labeled bins) and it does not matter what breeds they are as long as they where the color advertised and where brown egg laying hens.