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

[7 Biddies]

OMG i can agree with you on this! You are not stupid and good for you standing up to that horrible, RUDE person! Rather than insult you, he could have just asked how you knew that.. really. MY teen, now 20 is a smart girl. She had the same experience with our goats this last fall...(Daughter: Its a nubian... Crabbyguy: noo! its a goat... you are a stupid kid....Daughter: go back to the city! grow up and learn some manners.. ME: My jaw dropped to the grass!) We live near one of those huge subdivisions that get built in like a week, and it seems so full of rude, impatient people. We are 25 minutes from town, and this huge housing thing was built from a farmers estate that had passed away. I didn't know it would be so terrible, thought it would help our community.. And now we are flooded with people that stay angry all the time. So sad for them. When i go to town now, its become rude impatient people at the grocery, hardware, and the bank. Our little town was full of kind hearted, cheerful, old fashioned people and maybe a few busybodies we all still loved. Thats progress?...Thank you for speaking out and best of luck to you.

I, too, live in a small town. Since we're in the mountains and have a beautiful lake, it's over run with tourists during nice weather. Some can be very impatient and demanding, assuming all locals are incompetent. But, we're not the ones who had to "escape" our homes to come here, are we? <big grin>

My favorite response to the rude ones is a big smile while asking, innocently, "Were you born this rude, or is it something you had to perfect?". It may not solve anything, but it sure makes me feel better.

 

[galanie]

A vistor having coffee at our home, looking out the dining-room window, observed 6 of our hens having a mass-dustbathing session.
She got a disturbed look on her face and uttered the following:
"OMG!!! ARE THEY SICK???? DO THEY HAVE RABIES OR SOMETHING????"
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I politely engaged her....  "Nope....." I said, then asked "How do you think they make eggs to lay?????"   

Mrs. promptly kicked my shin under the table............

 

[Clumber]

Just yesterday. "How do you keep them from pecking each other's eyes out? Don't chickens peck eyes out?"



To be somewhat fair, this person does AKC hunt tests as do we, and often the hen pheasants arrive with blinkers on. I suspect that is where the question originates from. I did explain that gamebirds often don't take well to confinement and/or having too little space /bird and that such may be true of commercial chicken processors as well, but if we provide ours with enough space, keep up with their needs, and try to keep them from getting too bored, eyeball pecking is unlikely to be a problem, Also that some chickens are bullies and not good flock members, just like anyone, and that we'll take care to remove problem birds before they impact the flock.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

My chickens always say, nothing like the taste of fresh eyeball in the morning!

 

[Clumber]

My chickens always say, nothing like the taste of fresh eyeball in the morning!

 

[SophieL]

These are my girls. My husband said he had no idea they'd look like that. He thought they'd be like Foghorn Leghorn! That's what I get for marrying someone from NYC. Anyway, definitely the question I get most often is how I get eggs without roosters. I always answer honestly and without snark because I don't like for people to feel stupid for asking questions, but I think on these boards, we can certainly giggle a bit...

 

[7 Biddies]

Lack of exposure or an opportunity to learn is nothing to mock. When people acknowledge they don't know anything about a topic, but would like to learn, they deserve a respectful response. It's only when they're pompous and think they're the authority on everything, when in fact they know nothing, that "snarkiness" becomes appropriate.

Not knowing is one thing; not being open to learning is just plain stupid. Glad you're nice to your hubby. Being from The City, I'm surprised he didn't think all chickens come on a plate.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

I have to tell people off when they insist that something is wrong with my birds. The Naked Necks are sick guy makes me furious. I mean come on, he thought I was joking about this being my petting zoo! Because it is every 12 year-olds dream to own their own petting zoo and deal with snobby city people all day. I would never do it if it wasn't for a non profit organization based on my great great aunt's farm. Otherwise, NONONONONONO, NOOOOOOO!

Need...more...angry...smilies!

 

[7 Biddies]

I have to tell people off when they insist that something is wrong with my birds. The Naked Necks are sick guy makes me furious. I mean come on, he thought I was joking about this being my petting zoo! Because it is every 12 year-olds dream to own their own petting zoo and deal with snobby city people all day. I would never do it if it wasn't for a non profit organization based on my great great aunt's farm. Otherwise, NONONONONONO, NOOOOOOO!

Need...more...angry...smilies!

Be sure you're not rude because it just demeans you and, as a young person, convinces the adults they are right or superior. Instead, try keeping a volume of Storey's or some other authoritative resource on hand, with a bookmark in the section about Naked Necks and say, "Perhaps you'd like to look it up?" That should humble them, and you won't be in the wrong by telling them off (unfortunately, you'll gain nothing but resistance that way).

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

That's a good idea. I don't know, I guess Naked Necks are just a breed of horribly sick chicken?

I did try not to be rude, I just intervened nicely when he was telling his kids not to touch them because they would get sick.

Luckily I've only had to kick out one person, but he was high as a kite and wouldn't put down the goats. (You read that right, he was picking up the goats and carrying them around)