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

[tandykins]

How about the dumb things people say when they find out you have, or are getting chickens?! For example, one of my faves.."chicken poop STINKS!"
Ummm..I haven't met a poop yet that doesn't STINK!! People don't say that crap when you're getting a puppy! I mean c'mon people

Yeah I got "Ugh, Chickens really STINK! Don't keep the coop anywhere near your house!" a lot.

So far...? Really? It stinks if I don't keep it fairly clean (and even then only if I'm practically crawling inside it) - but I have three cats and an extremely flatulent pug - the chickens have nothing on them.

 

[CarolinaHen]

My English Orp did this last year. It was hilarious. She sat for over a month and crushed her babies in the shell. One hatched and she didn't protect it and it died. So she sat on air for a few more weeks - I decided no more babies for her. Then all of a sudden, she was up and clucking to her invisible chicks.

It is absolutely hilarious to watch! Glad I am not the only one with a crazy hen

 

[tandykins]

Not so much a stupid thing but more of a smart thing. I keep reading about all of these people who eat (or are in the process of eating) chickens - grown adults - who have apparently never made an association with the meat referred to as "chicken" and the birds - only to respond in abject horror.

My little boy (3 years old) saw me cutting up a whole chicken into pieces a couple of weeks ago and asked me what it was. I said that it was a dead chicken. What followed was a very matter-of-fact conversation about how this was a dead chicken. Yes, it's like our chickens. Yes, we will eat our chickens someday. No, not soon. Yes, I promise not to eat them soon.

Ever since, every time we have chicken for dinner, he points at it and says, "This is a dead chicken. It is like ours, but it isn't ours. Ours are still alive." I was so proud of him for handling his first revelation that we eat animals (and may eat our own animals) with such ease and acceptance. My kid definitely won't be one of those "WHAAAT? THIS IS THAT KIND OF CHICKEN??" people.

He still has a hard time believing that we eat cows, however. He says that cows are too fast and would run away if you were trying to kill them. We're gong to have to work on this.

 

[Bethel3330]

Yeah I got "Ugh, Chickens really STINK! Don't keep the coop anywhere near your house!" a lot. 

So far...? Really? It stinks if I don't keep it fairly clean (and even then only if I'm practically crawling inside it) - but I have three cats and an extremely flatulent pug - the chickens have nothing on them.

oh, no doubt! I'd trade my three cats in the house for another chicken coop any day! Lol

 

[Toehead]

Bio-diesel is diesel made with renewable sources, the ecology of this is negotiable since it often means forest is cut down to grow crops suitable for the production of the diesel.

But you can also use the (filtered) used frying oil in (older) diesel engines. Some use an additive with it. The merc 190d apparently is well suited for this.

This is not always true. Bio diesel is just animal fat or plant oil based fuel that has been reacted to form a fuel that is compatible with standard diesel engines.

You can run converted diesel engines on pure vegetable oil. However, you can take that same vegetable oil and process it with lye, methanol, and some other nasties and have bio diesel that will run in any diesel engine (but probably void the warranties of new common rail diesels)

 

[ChickenCanoe]

When I don't know what someone is saying. I Google it for this specific reason. We aren't all experts in everything. Just gotta know when you're out of your league......

Google, dictionaries and encyclopedias work wonders.
I remember every time I wanted to know what something meant, I was told to pull out the dictionary and look it up. Good exercise.
Google's faster but I'm really old so I remember.

How about the dumb things people say when they find out you have, or are getting chickens?! For example, one of my faves.."chicken poop STINKS!"
Ummm..I haven't met a poop yet that doesn't STINK!! People don't say that crap when you're getting a puppy! I mean c'mon people

When smell comes up in conversation I say, "imagine that many humans living in that space with no bathroom facilities - the chickens would say, 'wow those humans sure do stink'".
I had a news crew filming my chickens for a backyard chicken controversy story. I opened one of the coops which was a half A-frame with the roof serving as the door. The newsman looked really puzzled as he peered in. I said, "what's wrong?" He said, "there's no smell." I said, "of course there's no smell, there's never a smell if they're well cared for."
Relating that story, I've been accused of cleaning everything in advance but I didn't know they were coming. I had news crews just pull into my driveway unannounced. Good thing I had clothes on.

It's scary the number of females who don't know female plumbing.

Oh so true.

Not so much a stupid thing but more of a smart thing. I keep reading about all of these people who eat (or are in the process of eating) chickens - grown adults - who have apparently never made an association with the meat referred to as "chicken" and the birds - only to respond in abject horror.

My little boy (3 years old) saw me cutting up a whole chicken into pieces a couple of weeks ago and asked me what it was. I said that it was a dead chicken. What followed was a very matter-of-fact conversation about how this was a dead chicken. Yes, it's like our chickens. Yes, we will eat our chickens someday. No, not soon. Yes, I promise not to eat them soon.

Ever since, every time we have chicken for dinner, he points at it and says, "This is a dead chicken. It is like ours, but it isn't ours. Ours are still alive." I was so proud of him for handling his first revelation that we eat animals (and may eat our own animals) with such ease and acceptance. My kid definitely won't be one of those "WHAAAT? THIS IS THAT KIND OF CHICKEN??" people.

He still has a hard time believing that we eat cows, however. He says that cows are too fast and would run away if you were trying to kill them. We're gong to have to work on this.

Cool. It's the people that want to shelter their children from anything untoward, unpleasant or even reality that tend to be a problem.

 

[vehve]

This is not always true. Bio diesel is just animal fat or plant oil based fuel that has been reacted to form a fuel that is compatible with standard diesel engines.

You can run converted diesel engines on pure vegetable oil. However, you can take that same vegetable oil and process it with lye, methanol, and some other nasties and have bio diesel that will run in any diesel engine (but probably void the warranties of new common rail diesels)

Animal fat and plant oil being renewable sources. As in not raw oil pumped up from several miles below us somewhere in Saudi Arabia or Texas. But often it's made from crops that are grown where rain forest once stood.

Here we have a few (or at least one) companies who make fuel out of waste oil, and the car manufacturers have accepted it's usage. I think there have been loads less problems with this, than the gas that has ethanol added to it. They say it works the same as the old stuff, but I've heard a lot of boat-owners complain about issues with clogging that they've experienced after the switch. It corrodes fuel tanks more easily. Also, many petrol stations had to exchange their underground fuel tanks.

 

[vehve]

Cool. It's the people that want to shelter their children from anything untoward, unpleasant or even reality that tend to be a problem.

A few years back Helsinki had a major issue with domestic rabbits that had been set free, the population was estimated at between 10 000 and 20 000 in the capitol area. The extermination of this was widely publicized, and in the midst of the hype the largest newspaper ran a story about the grounds keeper at our botanical garden. His main source of protein was rabbit that he hunted in the grounds of the garden (he lives there), and they had some recipes in the story. They also had a picture of a flayed rabbit. My God the amount of negative feedback they received. One of my favorites among the ones they published was from a mother of an eight year old child. She was outraged that a reputable paper could print such macabre images, how would her little baby ever survive this horror? The paper handled it stylishly in my opinion, but it just shows how out of touch with the food chain people are.

 

[Ninamm]

I am dying over here on the whole 'Chicken butt' thing! omg omg omg!!! Throat punch her for me next time you see her!!! JUST KIDDING

 

[TheKeeper]

It is absolutely hilarious to watch!  Glad I am not the only one with a crazy hen

Post some video. That would be entertaining!