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

[GOLDENSEABRIGHT]

post your chick pic at the GRAB A SEAT AND WATCH THE CHICK SHOW thread

 

[Tabatha]

if you happen to faint in their pasture...maybe. they'd start with your eyes.

Mine try to eat my toes every day

 

[7 Biddies]

it's not the blue eggs specifically, it's birds that are ranged on pasture have lower cholesterol eggs. Thank you to Martha Stewart for telling the whole world blue eggs are different than other eggs...so much for her being the "best" homemaker.

She did?? What did she say?

 

[7 Biddies]

Mine try to eat my toes every day

Mine goes after my buttons.

 

[subhanalah]

She did?? What did she say?

She said that her blue eggs are lower in cholesterol than store bought eggs. This simply means her chickens are fed better and has nothing to do with the color of the egg. If she had brown or white egg layers, "hers" would have lower cholesterol than store-bought.

 

[7 Biddies]

She said that her blue eggs are lower in cholesterol than store bought eggs. This simply means her chickens are fed better and has nothing to do with the color of the egg. If she had brown or white egg layers, "hers" would have lower cholesterol than store-bought.

She shouldn't have mentioned a specific color, but just noted how they were fed as the reason. Ooops.

 

[Bethel3330]

I don't want to fuel an argument here, but just to clarify something here: GMOs are not creating new DNA and never did. It adds specifically chosen DNA from one organisms to another without cross-breeding. It also allows two organisms which are closely related, but not enough to breed, to swap DNA. It does not happen in nature but it's no more man-made then a breed created by selective breeding. Opinions will vary on if it should be eaten or not, however it was never proven to be harmful (unless that is, you crossed bred a deadly plant with an edible plant and ate it).

Back to the topic:

Someone told me that if a fertilized egg sits on the counter it will hatch.

I wanted to be sure you were familiar with Roundup Ready crops and how they work? That concept is being used over and over in our food system with more on the horizon. Studies are showing the presence of glyphosate in women's breast milk and higher concentrations of it in many with certain disease processes. It's like anything else. The damage will occur but it takes years before the research confirms it.

 

[Bethel3330]

She shouldn't have mentioned a specific color, but just noted how they were fed as the reason. Ooops.

Darn. What a missed opportunity!

 

[Bethel3330]

Someone told me that if a fertilized egg sits on the counter it will hatch.

Lol It will in an unairconditioned house during a heat wave in summer! Well, maybe. Maybe not. But during just that type of weather a man was giving extra eggs to my MIL, who then shared with us. After finding a few bad then a partially developed chick I told her to ask him whether he was collecting them daily. He said he tried to but they didn't sit more than a few days but none of the chickens were sitting on them :-/

*yuck*

 

[cassie]

She shouldn't have mentioned a specific color, but just noted how they were fed as the reason. Ooops.

Actually she was quoting something that I and a lot of other people read too. Some food expert stated that the blue and green eggs had lower cholesterol than the white or brown eggs. I, and no doubt Martha Stewart and others made the assumption (wrong though it might have been) that a scientific study was made to determine this. In the article I read nothing was mentioned about how the hens were fed or managed. In other words, Martha Stewart passed on information that she believed to be correct. There was no ooops involved on her part. The person stating that the blue eggs were lower in cholesterol was a recognized authority in the food world. She had no reason to suspect that what he said was not true.