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

[PrairieChickens]

And just how are you supposed to predict if a chicken has a "burp" that day in laying or not? Sheesh.... I guess you could say "Not that I know of, but you never know." That guy is his own little PITA party.

That was exactly what I was TRYING to say, but he kept interrupting me, so finally I just said "NO, there's NO RED SPOTS IN THE EGGS".

That guy's a cloaca. Pluck him.

 

[aart]

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[GD91]

That was exactly what I was TRYING to say, but he kept interrupting me, so finally I just said "NO, there's NO RED SPOTS IN THE EGGS".

That guy's a cloaca. Pluck him.

 

[oldrooster]

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I can't believe that someone is so selfish and stupid they couldn't collect the eggs and give them to someone to use since a chicken is a bird created for meat and eggs. and yes I know that stupid cannot be fixed....

 

[Alia]

I disagree. It's not "forward thinking" to distance yourself from your food, and while veganism is a fine choice for some, it is not for all. There will never be a time when everyone can be--or will want to be--vegan, and I have a serious problem with people who push their personal dietary choices onto others. It's also not "forward thinking" to believe that you can control nature, that you can manipulate an animal as though it comes with an on-off switch and you can just make it stop doing what nature has hardwired it to do. This is yet another symptom of our society's detachment from the reality of our food--and from reality itself. Our increasing distance from where our food comes from is making us sick, weak, and shortening our life spans. How can that be called forward thinking? It's not that people have more respect for animals than they used to--they just literally have no clue what goes on in the production of their food anymore, so the reality is shocking to them. The way we "actually live" as a society is literally killing us. For the first time in our history as a nation, children have a shorter life expectancy than the generation that proceeded them.

The more natural and closer to the source your food is, the healthier and more nutritious it is. We gain absolutely nothing from distancing ourselves from our food.

I'm not making a value judgment. I'm not saying anything about what's good or bad for the human species. (If I was I might agree with you.)

If someone else is more in line with the way the world is actually headed, you just have to be careful about poking fun because people will look back after the society has made its value judgment and see you as a villain, while lauding others as heroes. I'm not a vegan. I tried at one point to be a vegetarian but didn't thrive on the diet. I can see the way things are headed, though. When people were calling themselves vegetarians it was about a personal moral choice. Now that they're calling themselves vegan, it has shifted. If you squint really hard and stare at the books of the past, you can read the books of the future. You can see them explaining that the way we bred chickens to use themselves up in a tiny fraction of their natural lifespan to produce ludicrous amounts of eggs was absolutely wrong. They then add that the natural lifespan of the red jungle fowl is 30 years, while our hens burn through that in three and stop laying as they enter premature senescence.

I'll continue to keep chickens as long as I can. As far as I see it, they're the best animal, period. Nothing else can be your beloved pet and essentially give you meat anyway in the form of high-quality protein. I've seen the books of the future, though. I know where I fall in them. Fun times with history... At one point not everyone bothered to wash their hands. People were wiped out, and the only ones spared were those with good hygiene habits. Now we all do it. Are we getting sicker, and weaker, and living shorter? Absolutely. I can see us becoming as allergic to our own yards as we were to the plague. I can see all those antibiotics they pump into the chickens in egg factories becoming absolutely necessary. In the future I see, the superbugs are created by the huge egg factories and meat farms with wall-to-wall chickens, and would never have even existed if people just had backyard flocks, but as a rule history books don't have too many what-ifs in them and only the factories are allowed to have the industrial measures they need against now-ubiquitous diseases. Irradiated eggs? Well irradiated food doesn't hurt you, but I don't see backyard chicken keepers getting access to that. Sterile chicken eggs. Push-of-a-button contingencies to wipe out flocks that get contaminated by even a single microbe. Chickens are now illegal. Individually-wrapped, fresh-pak, factory-sealed... chicken eggs. And anything else could kill you.

In short, the sanitary people win. They become right. Their way becomes the only way to stay alive. So I'm going to refrain from calling them stupid.

 

[yinepu]

I had a guy yell at me yesterday, demanding to know if there would be "red spots" in the eggs. "YES OR NO! ARE THERE RED SPOTS IN THE EGGS!?"

I tried to say "red spots don't mean an egg is fertilized, though" but he cut me off and repeated.
"YES OR NO! ARE THERE RED SPOTS IN THE EGGS!?"
"Well the eggs I've used haven't had any--"
"YES OR NO! JUST SAY YES OR NO!"
"Red spots can hap-"
"YES OR NO! YES OR NO! YES OR NO! JUST SAY YES OR NO!"

The next time he asks if I have eggs for sale, I'll say they're all spoken for, even if they're not. That was ridiculous

you have my sympathy.. i wouldn't have been so kind to him...

(and what I would have told him can't be written out in a public family friendly forum......)

 

[GD91]

I'm not making a value judgment. I'm not saying anything about what's good or bad for the human species. (If I was I might agree with you.)

If someone else is more in line with the way the world is actually headed, you just have to be careful about poking fun because people will look back after the society has made its value judgment and see you as a villain, while lauding others as heroes. I'm not a vegan. I tried at one point to be a vegetarian but didn't thrive on the diet. I can see the way things are headed, though. When people were calling themselves vegetarians it was about a personal moral choice. Now that they're calling themselves vegan, it has shifted. If you squint really hard and stare at the books of the past, you can read the books of the future. You can see them explaining that the way we bred chickens to use themselves up in a tiny fraction of their natural lifespan to produce ludicrous amounts of eggs was absolutely wrong. They then add that the natural lifespan of the red jungle fowl is 30 years, while our hens burn through that in three and stop laying as they enter premature senescence.

I'll continue to keep chickens as long as I can. As far as I see it, they're the best animal, period. Nothing else can be your beloved pet and essentially give you meat anyway in the form of high-quality protein. I've seen the books of the future, though. I know where I fall in them. Fun times with history... At one point not everyone bothered to wash their hands. People were wiped out, and the only ones spared were those with good hygiene habits. Now we all do it. Are we getting sicker, and weaker, and living shorter? Absolutely. I can see us becoming as allergic to our own yards as we were to the plague. I can see all those antibiotics they pump into the chickens in egg factories becoming absolutely necessary. In the future I see, the superbugs are created by the huge egg factories and meat farms with wall-to-wall chickens, and would never have even existed if people just had backyard flocks, but as a rule history books don't have too many what-ifs in them and only the factories are allowed to have the industrial measures they need against now-ubiquitous diseases. Irradiated eggs? Well irradiated food doesn't hurt you, but I don't see backyard chicken keepers getting access to that. Sterile chicken eggs. Push-of-a-button contingencies to wipe out flocks that get contaminated by even a single microbe. Chickens are now illegal. Individually-wrapped, fresh-pak, factory-sealed... chicken eggs. And anything else could kill you.

In short, the sanitary people win. They become right. Their way becomes the only way to stay alive. So I'm going to refrain from calling them stupid.

Will you stop putting these pictures in my head!? Its creepy at best.

I don't actually know if people pay that much attention to history to progress from it. Yes, people are more sanitary now, but you forget we didn't have the facilities then to be sanitary.

And we couldn't all live in completely sterile environments, we would be getting knocked down by colds in the future... Antibiotics only help your immune system, they don't fight whats there for you. Most infections etc are becoming or are immune to antibiotics now anyway.

The future you see looks very depressing to me.... But it will only be that way if we make it that way.

As I mentioned previously, I don't think those distinctive personalities in people are that common. Most people are practical & we should be encouraging self sufficiency to avoid the future you see.

Do you think money will still exist? Or will it crash?

By the way, I don't doubt what you predict. It is a perfect possibility. Soon we will be the stupid ones for keeping to "outdated" practices.

Education is the main thing to encourage. If people knew what we know, then they would realize we aren't stupid really.

 

[GD91]

you have my sympathy.. i wouldn't have been so kind to him...

(and what I would have told him can't be written out in a public family friendly forum......)

Like the kids of today haven't learn't it all already.

I used to act like a gem around my parents, once away I knew more about sex ED (thank you school) & swearing than what they did. They were none the wiser & thought I was as good as gold

My family used to really watch what they said. Not that it mattered.

 

[chickenboy100]

Quote: I completely disagree with this, I belive that in the future the factory farms will have depleated all their supplies and us who keep chickens and cow and such will be some of the few with readly avaliable meat/eggs/milk.
ALSO the main thing is WORK so very few people today want to get their hands dirty and just work. They'd rather go to an office job and sit inside for a few hours than go and run a dairy farm, working all day, and being outside shoveling poop, milking the cows, feeding, now people want to sit in front of a computer all day (ironicly, I'm planning on sitting on the computer for the rest of the day...) than work supplying food.
Sorry if I cause a stink, just putting ideas out there

 

[krapnet]

Man oh man. my neighbor did the something! (his wife). she said "eww why are they all deformed and different colors and shapes?" I said that's called organic free ranging eggs. her husband was grateful and thanked me (he was from the city and she grew up on a ranch). I got an update two days ago and the husband enjoyed them and was trying to pay me monthly for some, declined the payment and said, sure more on me.