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

[bobbi-j]

I haven't gotten any meat chickens yet, but my mother and aunt just can not understand how I could raise a chicken only to "murder a poor trusting, defenseless chicken". Keep in mind they have no problem going to the store and eating the chicken from there because "It doesn't have a name and they don't have to look at its face". My mother has even told my DD that "It's sad your mother wants to murder chickens. Won't that make you sad when she kills the chickens?".

It drives me crazy!!

Pretty sure my mother and I would have a discussion about that.... And then I'd tell the child the facts of life. Things live, things die. Sometimes we raise things and they die by our hand, but that is why we are raising them. When my boys were kids, animals came and animals went. We got a week-old calf from someone who had gotten rid of all his milk cows. The boys named this calf (that was bottle-fed and pretty much hand-raised) Butch. "Because we're gonna butcher him anyway, Mom."

 

[drohan]

I could keep reading this thread all day! Hilarious! My students, who all live in the city, asked me if i bought bugs for my chickens to eat. Had to laugh out loud on that one. They also thought that you couldn't eat the eggs if you had a rooster. They enjoyed testing them for protein and vitamins against store bought eggs. I did have a friend out that I had a lot of explaining to do. She is a city girl and knew absoultely nothing. Best part was when she asked me, as she was standing in the coop, "What's a roost?" "How do you get them all to go in at night?"

The worst had to be from my mom, who raised chickens when I was young, "You have roosters. All of your eggs are fertile." me: "Yes, I know." her "How do you eat them if there are little chicks in there?" (She was completely serious!) Me: "I pick them up everyday and put them in the icebox. They won't develop." Her: "Oh."

LOL! I love my mom! So entertaining!

 

[ChickChickChicky]

When I asked my college chemistry professor (brilliant in many ways, but sorely lacking in some areas) if she'd like me to bring her some fresh eggs from my "girls", she asked me if I candlewicked myself or did I have someone else do it..... HUH???????????

What I finally figured out was that she meant did I CANDLE the eggs to see if they were fertile. I explained that I had no roosters. She said she just couldn't eat an egg if it hadn't been candlewicked, because one time she had cracked open an egg and there had been a fully-developed chick foot in it.

I should not have been surprised, because the previous week she told me, with a great air of authority, that peonies would not bloom if one removed the ants from the buds because the ants pollinate the flowers, therefore they can't bloom out without ants.

 

[Sara Jayne]

I have a soon to be sister in law that knows Im starting to raise chickens for fresher eggs and she told me that she wouldnt eat those eggs cause they came from a chicken I just sarted to laugh and she said what and I said they all come from checkens she still dont beleive me I think for someone who lived in the country side all her life would know all chicken eggs come from chickens I just had to walk away. Lets just say I dont breach the subject with her anymore. lol just to funny how people are now days

 

[bobbi-j]

she told me, with a great air of authority, that peonies would not bloom if one removed the ants from the buds because the ants pollinate the flowers, therefore they can't bloom out without ants.

I said they all come from checkens she still dont beleive me

Wow. Just.... wow. I know none of you know me on a personal basis, but I'll tell you this - it takes a lot to render me speechless, and you both just did.

 

[Brown Chicka Brown Cow]

So, I have this sister, lol, that wants to get to a more natural, healthy lifestyle. I'd heard her go on and on about growing her own garden, canning her own food and such so I'd sugested a few hens for fresh eggs. Her reply? " I'm waaaay to lazy to take care of chickens." Huh?

Granted chickens can be work, depending on how many and such, but she obviously has never put out a garden either. Gotta love my sister..

 

[BooBear]

My Dad believes that fertile eggs taste better. (Well, all fresh yard eggs actually taste the same wether a rooster is around or not.)

Now I do have a friend that won't eat her chicken's eggs simply because of the strange eating habit they have developed. Her chickens clean up after her goat. The goat poops and the chickens eat the poop.

Her chickens will even peck the poor goats butt to get more poop.

So she gives her eggs away to others.

 

[NevadaRon]

My Dad believes that fertile eggs taste better. (Well, all fresh yard eggs actually taste the same wether a rooster is around or not.)

Now I do have a friend that won't eat her chicken's eggs simply because of the strange eating habit they have developed. Her chickens clean up after her goat. The goat poops and the chickens eat the poop.

Her chickens will even peck the poor goats butt to get more poop.

So she gives her eggs away to others.

Tell her her gooat needs to be dewormed.

 

[ChickChickChicky]

Now I do have a friend that won't eat her chicken's eggs simply because of the strange eating habit they have developed. Her chickens clean up after her goat. The goat poops and the chickens eat the poop.

Her chickens will even peck the poor goats butt to get more poop.

So she gives her eggs away to others.

What are friends for????????

 

[Marengoite]

Tell her her gooat needs to be dewormed.

Best reply ever.