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

[yinepu]

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I got a refund.. he offered more eggs.. but I opted out

 

[Peep_Show]

I had a mean leghorn roo..."had" being the operative word. When I processed him after one attack too many on his part and took all his feathers off, there wasn't enough there to make a cup of soup out of. Really, it was scrawny and like a scant 2 lb carcass. WL's are great for egg production, but would be cost prohibitive to raise for meat considering the size and quality. At least the hatcheries make some use out of the roo-lets (okay...chicks) if they can utilize the byproducts. Remember, the food industry/poultry industry IS a business and, like any good business, any amount of money you can make off of anything will offset the costs and that is what business is designed to do. Ergo, racehorses get sold at auction after their track usefulness. Doesn't mean it's a pleasant thought, but the folks holding the wallets are very seldom the ones down in the trenches caring for their product. The chicks are not being wasted as far as their utility goes if there's a use for the byproduct, even if the chick's destiny is short. Everything gets used in the poultry industry: the manure is recycled, the feathers used for animal feed, the innards for pet food....everything but the cockadoodle-doo can and is utlized. I'm pretty sure that those in the chicken incubating warehouses and processing plants have after viewing thousands of chicks and chickens stop looking at them as individuals; they're a commodity en masse.

Anyway, I can understand the point made when you look at critters individually as little beings, but the big picture is the reality. I had a very pointed discussion with a vegetarian who was dead-set against the beef industry and wanted to stop slaughterhouses. "Well," I said, "to get milk you need a cow to calve and half of those offspring are future steers. What is to become of them?" Her reply was "Everybody should have a steer as a pet." "Really? Everybody?" "Yes. Especially all the milk drinkers. It should be mandatory." I was living in an apartment at the time. Yeah, sure. Can picture that one. My neighbors would've appreciated (not) the cow patties dripping off my balcony.... .

 

[Peep_Show]

I recently bought hatching eggs that were shipped to me.. upon arrival the post office had the box in a plastic garbage bag because it stunk so badly and was leaking.. several of the eggs had exploded and the rest were bad with large air cells.. when I contacted the seller they assured me that the eggs were good, that their ducks had been laying like crazy... when I asked about the size of the air cells and told him that a few had exploded in the box.. his reply was "those eggs are fresh. they were laid this year, 2014".. so I asked exactly when they had been laid... he said "oh sometime in January I think.. but they are still good for hatching"

keep in mind the box had not been lost in the mail.. and this is April...........

YUCK! Lucky the USPS didn't cite a health hazard.

Glad you got a refund. I would've asked him to eat one of the January eggs to see just how fresh they are.

Clueless, clueless......

 

[kpgoldstar]

I don't think I'm wound tight. I think people are trying awfully hard to debate with me when I was just sharing a few facts and my opinion. How many times do I have to say that it's just wishful thinking before people stop telling me how stupid I'm being?

I don't think you're wound up tight at all. Just wishful thinking but you make a decent argument that it could be done. You aren't being stupid. I would venture to say that most of us that raise chickens wish things were different in the corporate greedy world we live in. We are contributing to our own sustainability however miniscule.

 

[aart]

@PrairieChickens is articulate and passionate.

 

[subhanalah]

@PrairieChickens
 is articulate and passionate.

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[RachaelS]

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I took a chicken on a leash to my sister's yard sale - mostly to see if anyone would stop to pet the chicken. Some do-gooder started asking me questions "you don't just keep it in that cage do you?" pointing at the travel cage. What I really wanted to say is, "why yes! And I never clean the cage and she has mites and lice, here hold her for a minute."

Now that would have been FUNNY

I recently bought hatching eggs that were shipped to me.. upon arrival the post office had the box in a plastic garbage bag because it stunk so badly and was leaking.. several of the eggs had exploded and the rest were bad with large air cells.. when I contacted the seller they assured me that the eggs were good, that their ducks had been laying like crazy... when I asked about the size of the air cells and told him that a few had exploded in the box.. his reply was "those eggs are fresh. they were laid this year, 2014".. so I asked exactly when they had been laid... he said "oh sometime in January I think.. but they are still good for hatching"

keep in mind the box had not been lost in the mail.. and this is April...........

Hey yinepu! Now that is just GROSS. However, it does give me an idea, when shipping eggs instead of putting "Fragile Hatching Eggs" on the box, say "Fragile Rotten Eggs", they will get the royal treatment

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[JDXX]

@PrairieChickens is articulate and passionate.

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My thought is if big business hadn't taken chicken ,egg and everything else production away from the farmers I would see a whole lot less empty farm able land and a whole lot more money for local economies. I know I know you cant feed the masses like that, or could we ? Probably never know.

 

[subhanalah]

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My thought is if big business hadn't taken chicken ,egg and everything else production away from the farmers I would see a whole lot less empty farm able land and a whole lot more money for local economies. I know I know you cant feed the masses like that, or could we ? Probably never know.

they did in antiquity, when farmers would set aside 1/3 or 1/10 of their crops for charity. No one has ever gone broke giving charity, but many people suffer when the select few are greedy.

 

[yinepu]

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One of the postal employees did ask me if I knew who the sender was.. he thought it was a biological weapon of some sort...

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