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

[ronott1]

People at Farmers' Market are selling their eggs for as little as $2.50 a dozen or less. I had a couple park next to me and start selling their eggs for $1.50. I've also seen several ads up around town for eggs for as little as $1.50.

I get it, some people just have extra eggs that they're trying to get rid of, and they're not worried about the price, but their habit of underselling their eggs is making it harder for me to sell mine at a sustainable rate.

I'm working on expanding my operation so that I have enough eggs to justify traveling to a city to sell them. I can get nearly twice as much for my eggs up around KC or Topeka as I can here.

Farmers markets here will not let that happen!

Crazy to do that.

 

[annageckos]

I had an eagle making a living on wild Mallards one winter in front of the house until he discovered the neighbors ducks could not fly....then he ate them. He was very good at catching the Mallards out of the air. Maybe you're thinking of Ospreys.

Bald eagles are mainly fish eaters, but they will take advantage of other prey. You will also find the odd bird (like the one you saw) that will learn to specialize in other prey.

 

[Hinotori]

Have y'all had more hawks and eagles around this year. I have been fighting hawks and bald eagles this year for the first time. And have had chickens for 4 years. Just curious

Bald Eagles should not eat birds, they eat fish.

Bald eagles will take birds, cats, and small dogs. Our resident eagles here prefer to hunt ducks on the pond.

So our losses are usually to red tail hawks. The chickens are very vigilant and run for cover or the ehouse

 

[PrairieChickens]

One of my most vivid childhood memories was seeing a bald eagle dive down on a goose walking across a frozen river. They're versatile predators--if they can catch it and it tastes good, they'll eat it!

 

[Blooie]

Bald eagles are mainly fish eaters, but they will take advantage of other prey. You will also find the odd bird (like the one you saw) that will learn to specialize in other prey.

Well, living in an area where bald eagles and golden eagles thrive, I'd have to differ a little. Just a couple of weeks ago we counted 8 different eagles in a 20 mile drive to a neighboring town. I've seen them take rabbits, prairie dogs, snakes, stray cats, and congregate on road kill, regardless of what it was. Yes, they do fish, and they do it very well. But as someone else said, they are opportunists. And they can be very lazy - it's a lot less effort to dine on something that a car has left than it is to hunt. The area I live in is high desert....we don't have an abundance of lakes, streams or rivers. In order to grow anything we irrigate heavily because it's so dry here. Yet they live very well in our area. If they ate fish almost exclusively, they'd starve to death here, and we would see more of them near the occasional river than in the open desert. I can't agree that it's "the odd bird....that will learn to specialize in other prey." When you see as many eagles as we have, you quickly see that it is ALL of them, not just the "odd bird", which learns to grab whatever is available whenever it is available, and that would include a chicken dinner to go.
I kinda think that they adapt to the area they are in. Desert - anything goes. River bottoms and lake shores - fish.

 

[PrairieChickens]

There's a reason they're the national bird! lol

 

[subhanalah]

There's a reason they're the national bird! lol

I don't know...turkeys are pretty neat birds too...not nearly as majestic, though. Hey, it's good enough for VA Tech! Go hokies!

 

[PrairieChickens]

Wild turkeys are some pretty wicked cool critters, that's for sure.

 

[Chickadee42]

At farm fair last year I was holding my friends Polish (I don't remember how old the Polish was, but she was still pretty young. A little smaller than a bantam I think.only a few weeks old probably.) and people kept asking me "what's that?!?!?"
And I would say "a chicken"
them "NO WAY!!!!"
I sort of see why someone wouldn't know what a Polish was, I mean, they're pretty weird looking if you've never seen one before and especially if you weren't used to chickens, but still....someone asked me if I was holding a duck... :/

 

[Blooie]

At farm fair last year I was holding my friends Polish (I don't remember how old the Polish was, but she was still pretty young. A little smaller than a bantam I think.only a few weeks old probably.) and people kept asking me "what's that?!?!?"
And I would say "a chicken"
them "NO WAY!!!!"
I sort of see why someone wouldn't know what a Polish was, I mean, they're pretty weird looking if you've never seen one before and especially if you weren't used to chickens, but still....someone asked me if I was holding a duck...

I would have looked down at the Polish in surprise and answered, "What the heck happened to my puppy? He didn't start out this way!!"