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

[chick peeps]

I had one lady ask, "Does the rooster sit on the eggs and fertilize them?"

I have to say it was hard to not burst out laughing, but she didn't really know anything about chickens or eggs.

 

[subhanalah]

I had one lady ask,  "Does the rooster sit on the eggs and fertilize them?"   I have to say it was hard to not burst out laughing, but she didn't really know anything about chickens or eggs.

when I was a kod, I used to wonder how it worked for chickens....In the only real ways I knew how, for instance how fish spawn....maybe that's why some people think bloom is rooster juice? At least where the information started.

 

[LavLady]

Give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he misunderstood how old they were when he got them.

He waited 4 days to incubate them...

 

[ChaoSS]

I had one lady ask, "Does the rooster sit on the eggs and fertilize them?"

I have to say it was hard to not burst out laughing, but she didn't really know anything about chickens or eggs.

Why does everyone seem to think that these things are so stupid? This and the issue of Roosters being needed for eggs?

A number of animals are induced ovulators and will not ovulate without being bred. Rabbits are one example. They don't ovulate until just after sex, which is why they are so great at breeding so quickly. Now, chickens are far removed from the animals they were bred from, but not everyone knows this, and if you think about it, from a natural view point, it would make sense for chickens to be induced ovulators. Most animals that go into heat don't put much into their egg cycle, a chicken puts everything into that egg needed for a chicken that is capable of surviving almost on it's own, given the right environment. Imagine if human women were to put enough nutrients and energy into every single egg to produce a full baby, human estrous cycles would be hell on women. It would make sense for chickens to not produce eggs that are, from their perspective, useless.

Yeah, I know, in nature, wild birds don't produce eggs on a constant basis the way our chickens do now, but not everyone has studied chickens.


As for fertilization before or after the eggs are laid, there are many animals that fertilize eggs after they have been laid. Granted, they are all (I think) soft shelled eggs, but hard egg shells are porous enough to allow some things through, there's no reason to think it's unreasonable to think that they could be fertilized after being laid.

 

[subhanalah]

Why does everyone seem to think that these things are so stupid? This and the issue of Roosters being needed for eggs?

A number of animals are induced ovulators and will not ovulate without being bred. Rabbits are one example. They don't ovulate until just after sex, which is why they are so great at breeding so quickly. Now, chickens are far removed from the animals they were bred from, but not everyone knows this, and if you think about it, from a natural view point, it would make sense for chickens to be induced ovulators. Most animals that go into heat don't put much into their egg cycle, a chicken puts everything into that egg needed for a chicken that is capable of surviving almost on it's own, given the right environment. Imagine if human women were to put enough nutrients and energy into every single egg to produce a full baby, human estrous cycles would be hell on women. It would make sense for chickens to not produce eggs that are, from their perspective, useless.

Yeah, I know, in nature, wild birds don't produce eggs on a constant basis the way our chickens do now, but not everyone has studied chickens.


As for fertilization before or after the eggs are laid, there are many animals that fertilize eggs after they have been laid. Granted, they are all (I think) soft shelled eggs, but hard egg shells are porous enough to allow some things through, there's no reason to think it's unreasonable to think that they could be fertilized after being laid.

hahaha, this sums up about 4 or 5 of my posts in this thread! I got your back!

 

[ChaoSS]

hahaha, this sums up about 4 or 5 of my posts in this thread! I got your back!

I've probably missed most of those posts. I started reading at the beginning, got frustrated with a few posts, and since there's no point in responding to something years old, I skipped forward to near the end, where there is much of the same....


Before I started researching chickens, I assumed that chickens would go broody when they had enough eggs to make it worth their while. If I had just bought chickens without researching them first, I'd probably be out there one day wondering why my leghorns are laying on their eggs, when they have a few dozen I left for them....


I think it's unfortunate the lack of knowledge most modern humans have about raising animals. I also think it's rather unfortunate how little most of us know about raising plants properly. There are a great many things that I think most people should know about, that I know little to nothing about. I'm trying to learn, but it's not always easy, in this modern world. The least we can do is help educate people instead of ridiculing them.


Stupid is when people flat out refuse to be educated. Explain to them why home eggs are better than store eggs, and if they still insist that chickens that live in their own filth day in and day out in diseased, over medicated conditions are somehow cleaner and safer, then sure, I'll call them stupid. Let them insist that home grown eggs are disgusting because they needed a rooster to lay eggs, yet somehow factory farm eggs don't involve a rooster are clean, I'll share a chuckle at their expense. Listen to someone insist that we are cruel and inhumane for eating chickens we raised while they are perfeclty happy to monetarily support the factory farms that abuse animals, and I'll share in your feelings of annoyance with them.

But I don't see the point in mocking those who never had the chance to learn some pretty basic stuff.

I was on another forum where people were discussing hunting, and the more experienced were offering tips for new guys. One guy said that he was well prepared (for self sufficiency) and was good at hunting, and whatnot, and he just couldn't be bothered to help teach other guys who never bothered to learn the basics that their fathers should have taught them. Well, guess what. I've never been hunting, and don't know where to start. It's not my fault my dad didn't teach me, and it's not his fault his dad never taught him. Not sure how far back that goes, but I'd love to learn so that my kids can grow up to be the adults who's father did teach them, but that's not going to happen through derision.

 

[aart]

....... I started reading at the beginning, got frustrated with a few posts, and since there's no point in responding to something years old, I skipped forward to near the end, where there is much of the same....


Before I started researching chickens, I assumed that chickens would go broody when they had enough eggs to make it worth their while. If I had just bought chickens without researching them first, I'd probably be out there one day wondering why my leghorns are laying on their eggs, when they have a few dozen I left for them....


I think it's unfortunate the lack of knowledge most modern humans have about raising animals. I also think it's rather unfortunate how little most of us know about raising plants properly. There are a great many things that I think most people should know about, that I know little to nothing about. I'm trying to learn, but it's not always easy, in this modern world. The least we can do is help educate people instead of ridiculing them.


Stupid is when people flat out refuse to be educated. Explain to them why home eggs are better than store eggs, and if they still insist that chickens that live in their own filth day in and day out in diseased, over medicated conditions are somehow cleaner and safer, then sure, I'll call them stupid. Let them insist that home grown eggs are disgusting because they needed a rooster to lay eggs, yet somehow factory farm eggs don't involve a rooster are clean, I'll share a chuckle at their expense. Listen to someone insist that we are cruel and inhumane for eating chickens we raised while they are perfeclty happy to monetarily support the factory farms that abuse animals, and I'll share in your feelings of annoyance with them.

But I don't see the point in mocking those who never had the chance to learn some pretty basic stuff.

I was on another forum where people were discussing hunting, and the more experienced were offering tips for new guys. One guy said that he was well prepared (for self sufficiency) and was good at hunting, and whatnot, and he just couldn't be bothered to help teach other guys who never bothered to learn the basics that their fathers should have taught them. Well, guess what. I've never been hunting, and don't know where to start. It's not my fault my dad didn't teach me, and it's not his fault his dad never taught him. Not sure how far back that goes, but I'd love to learn so that my kids can grow up to be the adults who's father did teach them, but that's not going to happen through derision.

Well said. Bravo!
I've been thinking the same thing these last few days, disgusted with the ridicule. A good chuckle is ok, but geez...all the hate.
Thank you for putting into diplomatic words what I would have just spewed about.

But all the hateful comments do kind of fall under the title 'Dumbest Things People Have Said'

 

[Crickett]

I agree to a certain extent. I have always said ignorance is correctable, stupid is forever! There are a great many subjects I am ignorant about. The above example of hunting is one of them. I'd like to correct that, but at this time I am pushing my limits. Perhaps in the future I may be able to. Before I had chickens, bees, ducks, rabbits, a garden, sheep, I was ignorant of what needed to be done for them. I asked a LOT of questions, read as much as I could, and made several mistakes along the way. Am I now an expert? NO! But I do have a working knowledge. I have no problem trying to educate someone who is merely ignorant, it is when you have a person who will not even try to learn, who insists that he /she is right, even though evidence says otherwise, that you have someone truly stupid.
And yes, I've met some stupid people!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I haven't read that many comments here where people are flat out ridiculing people for not knowing a lot about chickens. What I have read is a lot of comments from people who have themselves been ridiculed by people who had faulty assumptions about chickens. Or have completely uneducated people aggressively argue with them about poultry facts.

I sympathize with the need to talk about those experiences in a safe place ...

Of course I don't condone name calling, and think it's possible to share these experiences without contributing to the ridicule and arguing.

I also read a lot of cute stories here. Some people are so amazed by chickens it is really uplifting and adorable.

If I say, "a potential customer wanted to know if my eggs are gluten free" would that be ridicule? If I added this emoticon ( )would that put it over the edge?

 

[sepaditty1]

I would just smile really big and assure her that YES! My eggs are gluten free! Then up the price and make a sale.