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

[hollymh]

She was adamant that they are squishy, I just nodded and smiled I wasn't going to win that one lol

 

[Gryphon]

Well, they sure can be quite "soft" when laid, and then the shell dries and hardens when it hits the air. But it happens FAST.

If that was the case, eggs would never break internally. They're just as hard before laying as after, it's only when being formed in the oviduct early on that they're "soft", because the shell has not yet been formed.

 

[Beekissed]

I think LJ was referring to "leather" eggs that are laid a little soft but crisp up a little on the outside when exposed to air. And, yes, the eggs are hard on the way down the chute...just stick your finger up there the night before and find out.

 

[hollymh]

I think LJ was referring to "leather" eggs that are laid a little soft but crisp up a little on the outside when exposed to air. And, yes, the eggs are hard on the way down the chute...just stick your finger up there the night before and find out.

I told her its unusual to get soft eggs and when you do it's a hiccup in the factory or a sick hen, but she kept insisting I just didn't know my chickens and then, the smile and nod came into play lol I quit trying

 

[Beekissed]

I told her its unusual to get soft eggs and when you do it's a hiccup in the factory or a sick hen, but she kept insisting I just didn't know my chickens and then, the smile and nod came into play lol I quit trying

Should have just nodded and said, "Bless yer little heart!".

 

[jc12551]

I am from Upstate NY!! i agree we get a bad rap.. because everytime I tell someone i an from NY.. they dont think of the rolling hills and farms...they think of the city..

I just got back from my first trip to SC.. and for the most part people were nice, but the only one I spent anytime talking to.. turned out to be a transplant from my home town up here... i found that out the day we were leaving!

I would LOVE to visit upstate NY! I have seen such beautiful pictures.

I think here in the South it varies a lot. I lived in a tourist town (Highlands, NC) and we depended on the wealthy visitors. We smiled and catered to their every need, but inside we despised them for driving up property values and treating workers like ****. Where I live in TN right now I find that the locals are not very friendly to outsiders. I have been here for four years and I am still not accepted all the way. Times are drastically changing in regards to hospitality and manners. I just cannot call someone who is a generation older than me by their first name. And it is yes ma'am and no sir too.

I'm a native New Englander, but an Air Force brat who was raised primarily in the south. So, I guess I'm a bit of a cross-breed. But, the truth of the matter is that people are people where ever you go - it's the culture that varies. Northerners tend to be more forthright, which makes them sound harsh to southerners whose culture dictates that everything be about not hurting anyone's feelings. As with everything, this can go too far sometimes, like at work. I can't get over how, in the south, you have to be so careful about how you talk to fellow workers or employees for fear you'll hurt their feelings. <?> Consequently, southerners sound almost syrupy sweet all the time, which is where they probably got their reputation for being nice and/or hospitable. However, they can also sound phony, of which I've found many of them guilty. They like or dislike people just like anyone else. But, Yankees tend to leave no doubt in your mind about it while, with southerners, you're not quite sure where you stand.

I've found good, kind, generous people everywhere from Maine and NH to right here in N. GA. I have to admit, though, it's mostly been in small towns, where the pace is inherently slower and people are less stressed.

Just my 2¢ worth. Seven

I think you hit the nail on the head. I had to reprimand an employee the other day but it took an hour because Heaven forbid I should just come out and say, "You messed up badly and I can't tolerate it"

Several years ago I was visiting friends who live in The Bronx. We were coming into the apartment building, a five floor walk-up, when a little old lady was coming up the steps pulling her grocery cart. I held the door for her and she said, "You are not from here, are you?" I said, "No ma'am." She laughed and said nobody had held a door for her since her husband had died and she hadn't been called a ma'am since the 60's. Made me a teeny bit sad.

Big city vs small town is probably more of the issue.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I think LJ was referring to "leather" eggs that are laid a little soft but crisp up a little on the outside when exposed to air. And, yes, the eggs are hard on the way down the chute...just stick your finger up there the night before and find out.

I've read varying things on this ... at what stage is an egg shell fully hard. The shell is applied close to the end of the line, and then the bloom is applied ... I know from "catching" eggs that both the shell and the bloom can be wet and soft when first laid, then harden up really fast as they dry. But I've also removed some very sturdy eggs from (turkey) hens I'm processing.

It probably has something to do with how long the egg stays in the shell gland area before it is laid? And pullet eggs ... the first few tend to be softer.

My point is that if the egg comes out soft and then hardens, it takes seconds, not days.

 

[hollymh]

Should have just nodded and said, "Bless yer little heart!".

LOL I was too stunned to say much more

 

[cassie]

Snopes is a guy and his wife and they google their info they put on their site. just and FYI

I tried responding to this from my AOL mail account and it appears my post didn't go through. So I am posting it again now. If I am completely brain dead and just missed seeing my post and have therefore posted this twice, what can I say? I admit I am not the most computer literate person to come down th pike.

OK. But you can find out about KFC's mythical genetically manipulated beakless, featherless, footless, chemically fed chicken substitutes there on snopes.com anyway.. Or you can just google KFC Internet Hoax. Personally, I thought the whole thing was funny. My niece never did believe me when I told her the it was a hoax. In fact, KFC is the only chicken she will eat because in her view no real chickens are harmed to make KFC "chicken". She thinks I am an axe murderer because I raise and process my own chickens. Real ones. I do what I can to encourage her opinion of me, but I did tell her I have never used an axe.

 

[Gryphon]

I tried responding to this from my AOL mail account and it appears my post didn't go through.  So I am posting it again now.  If I am completely brain dead and just missed seeing my post and have therefore  posted this twice, what can I say?  I admit I am not the most computer literate person to come down th pike.

OK.  But you can find out about KFC's mythical genetically manipulated beakless, featherless, footless, chemically fed chicken substitutes  there on snopes.com anyway..  Or you can just google KFC Internet Hoax. Personally, I thought the whole thing was funny. My niece never did believe me when I told her the it was a hoax.  In fact, KFC is the only chicken she will eat because in her view no real chickens are harmed to make KFC "chicken".  She thinks I am an axe murderer because I raise and process my own chickens.  Real ones.  I do what I can to encourage her opinion of me, but I did tell her I have never used an axe.

Actually that bit about how they "just google the answers" is made up.

As for leather eggs, that's the exception, not the rule. One of my aunts thinks that all eggs are completely soft and instantly harden when the air touches them. I didn't have the time to explain to her the mechanics of egg making and that her brothers were pulling her leg when they told her that.