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

[PrairieChickens]

Quote: My answer would have been, "Dunno! I was just pickin' my nose and there it was!"

 

[Blooie]

My answer would have been, "Dunno! I was just pickin' my nose and there it was!"

Ewwww! Um, you win!

Great answer!

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: My local farmers market has so many rules and reg, it's not the local farmer who goes there it's the professional "truck farm" farmer who sells there. They must sell from april to november and our growing season isn't that long unless you have hoop houses and or green houses. Many who sell there are from out of county and they have stands in their area and also "helpers whom sell at other farmers markets for them, along with the selling at the side of the road out of your trunk until "Barney" runs them off for a couple of hours/days.....

 

[subhanalah]

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!!"

Hahaha, yes,this!

 

[TheKeeper]

It's about finding the right target audience with the right product. A colorful mix helps. It would be tough in a small town. I'm on the edge of a big metropolitan area and I've even had people offer more than the 3 I was asking.

I found a totally new market. I eat at a sushi smorgasbord about once a week or so. Every waitress and most of the cooks are Chinese and not Japanese, go figure. Most are close to being right off the boat or plane. Maybe a Japanese person can't imagine the words sushi and smorgasbord going together. Anyway, I've made friends with one of the waitresses and told her that I raise chickens. Every once in a while she'd ask about them. I explained how dark the Penedesenca eggs are. She said they had chickens in her region of China that laid eggs just as dark. I was really curious what they were. Then she went into a rant about how horrible grocery store eggs are here. I told her I'd bring her some eggs. The next time I ate there, I brought a dozen. They were in a clear carton and there were a couple normal brown ones and the rest were a really nice color. Her eyes got big and she said, "THEY SO DOK!!!". (no offense). I said, I thought you said you had dark eggs in China. She said, not that dark, just normal brown. They hate white eggs. The next time I went, all the waitresses came up and said they wanted 5 dozen. I can sell 5 dozen there every time I go.
The area convenience markets have a lot of middle easterners and they hate white eggs too. I sell some there.
Good thing I'm down to my last white egg layer. My last Jaerhon.
I have an Ameraucana that just started laying. Wait till I bring some of those to Hokkaido.

Great marketing strategy! It'll work great here in the Bay Area.
The colored egg variety works great locally here (my neighbors appreciate not just healthier eggs but also they look pretty, even though they're not eating the shells, right?) but I didn't know that Middle Easterners as well as Asians didn't like white eggs.

 

[maransfan16]

I use bottle rockets for hawks. I haven't lost a bird to hawks when I have a Black Penedesenca rooster with each flock. I have lost a few meaties in a separate flock.

i believe it or not i use crows. yes crows. they live in the tree line about 100 yards from my house and eat the grain wasted by the combine and i throw out stuff for them... if the chickens don't get it first

and i have minimal hawk caused killings and by that i mean i lost a pigeon last year and it must work because my cousin who lives down in the woods behind my house has no crows ever and his chickens practicly live in the bushes to avoid hawks and he lives literally a mile away from me... as the crow flies.

 

[chicksurreal]

i believe it or not i use crows. yes crows. they live in the tree line about 100 yards from my house and eat the grain wasted by the combine and i throw out stuff for them... if the chickens don't get it first

and i have minimal hawk caused killings and by that i mean i lost a pigeon last year and it must work because my cousin who lives down in the woods behind my house has no crows ever and his chickens practicly live in the bushes to avoid hawks and he lives literally a mile away from me... as the crow flies.

Crows are your friends when it comes to dealing with hawks!

We have many crows that live around here and they will chase the hawks off. We feed them all the time to keep them around. I love them!

 

[subhanalah]

I've been saying it for a while now...why haven't we tried to train crows to be livestock guardians, we did it with wolves.

 

[chicksurreal]

I've been saying it for a while now...why haven't we tried to train crows to be livestock guardians, we did it with wolves.

We don't even need to train them! As long as they have an incentive to stick around (food), they will drive the hawks away every time. They are smart enough to train, I'm sure. But it just doesn't seem necessary.

I routinely see 10+ crows around here every day and sometimes more. We had a red tail hawk land in a bush close to some of our chickens the other day and it was immediately chased away by two crows that were perching in a nearby Sycamore tree. I will occasionally see a pair of hawks floating above us high in the sky, but it never fails that crows will run them off.

 

[subhanalah]

We don't even need to train them! As long as they have an incentive to stick around (food), they will drive the hawks away every time. They are smart enough to train, I'm sure. But it just doesn't seem necessary.

I routinely see 10+ crows around here every day and sometimes more. We had a red tail hawk land in a bush close to some of our chickens the other day and it was immediately chased away by two crows that were perching in a nearby Sycamore tree. I will occasionally see a pair of hawks floating above us high in the sky, but it never fails that crows will run them off.

What about the crows eating chicks/ducklings? I would imagine if you fed them enough, they would have no interest!

What about diseases carried by crows? Are they of concern for a flock?