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

[OneMountainAcres]

well it was a few years ago their where 10 kittens and they where in bad shape to begin with (1 died the day after they got to us) they where a pure breed something because the lady that dumped them on me helped run our local kitten mill (until i yelled at her mom one to many times and they moved). They lived until they where about 4 weeks old but then they started dropping dead one after another 9 kittens in total died in one week to a rare heart valve disorder we lost 3 in one hour on the same day needless to say i had a crash course in feline CPR that day. I would have put them down if they had told me the reason why they wanted to get rid of them is because two cull cats both with the same heart problems got into each other pens and had two litters of kittens. If i ever have to watch the life leave a bunch of baby's in my arms ever again i have to say i will be seriously thinking about suicide. Anyway a week or so after they left my dogs sounded the alarm and i ran out back to check on them to find they had cornered what i thought at first was a log . Until it started mewing i moved the log and a dirty rat i thought at the time came running up my leg from their old backyard. It turns out it was a 3 week old pure breed long haired solid white kitten (my mom swears he is a main coon but idk) i had just finished doing necropsy's (since i couldn't find a vet to do them) and digging graves so i was going to take it straight to a shelter but i had to go to work so i took it inside and put it in a carrier. When i got home my mom had washed him (to which he grew to the size of a softball of fuzzy cuteness) she put a cute collar on him and given him the name Mr. Poof 6 years later he is known as my "little man" he loves sunbathing is crazy about cheese and hates dirty litter boxes. he is going to be 7 in October

aww! It's amazing how these dirty little fluff balls can steal your heart our boy Monro, my husband found him in the middle of a busy road while he was at work test driving someone's car. He thought that he was a little bag Laying on the road until he got close. He straddled him at the last minute then went back for him. He was the size of my Palm, flea infested and terrified, hissing at everything. He was so small, he couldn't even eat solid food yet! We had baby formula still from our daughter so I ended up soaking cat food (from our other cat) in it and feeding him that way. I bathed him up, cleaned him up really nice and got rid of all the fleas. We named him Monro, after the garage my husband was working at lol. He's almost 7 years old now and grew to be a big strong, 17 lb (all muscle, no fat) boy with tons of personality, who loves to play with the dogs (thinks he's one of them) and is always pouncing and attacking anything that can resemble a toy lol. I think he came from feral cats.

 

[Bethel3330]

I know... it breaks my heart to see him like that, he seems to be a happy fellow. I got him a silkie cross chick to keep him company and teach him how to be a chick. Now he is eating and drinking on his own and even seems more sure of himself when walking around. I say he's a rooster because the little guy is huge, has very long legs and that rooster face. I hope I'm wrong 

Awww! That's good that he has a friend and is doing better.
I have 9 in the brooder right now and 3 suspects so far. lol Some I swear you can tell by how they act. We'll see.
Pulling for the little guy...or gal!

 

[Bethel3330]

aww! It's amazing how these dirty little fluff balls can steal your heart our boy Monro, my husband found him in the middle of a busy road while he was at work test driving someone's car. He thought that he was a little bag Laying on the road until he got close. He straddled him at the last minute then went back for him. He was the size of my Palm, flea infested and terrified, hissing at everything. He was so small, he couldn't even eat solid food yet! We had baby formula still from our daughter so I ended up soaking cat food (from our other cat) in it and feeding him that way. I bathed him up, cleaned him up really nice and got rid of all the fleas. We named him Monro, after the garage my husband was working at lol. He's almost 7 years old now and grew to be a big strong, 17 lb (all muscle, no fat) boy with tons of personality, who loves to play with the dogs (thinks he's one of them) and is always pouncing and attacking anything that can resemble a toy lol. I think he came from feral cats.

That's awesome!

 

[oldrooster]

Folks there is a very active cats thread on BYC I think it's called CATS! but may be wrong your cat stories are welcome there too.

 

[missnu01]

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.

the fda has said a lot of stuff was safe, until it killed a ton of people. You can not trust our government to keep us safe. They are a government made for the money, by the money, of the money..We've drifted a little since Abraham Lincoln

 

[Bethel3330]

the fda has said a lot of stuff was safe, until it killed a ton of people. You can not trust our government to keep us safe. They are a government made for the money, by the money, of the money..We've drifted a little since Abraham Lincoln

Ain't that the truth! I know we're a ways off topic, but let me just say I live in the area where 300,000 people lost water partly because of the government's lack of ability to do anything right. The substance that got into our water system was classified as "non-hazardous". Granted, it doesn't kill instantly, but you sure as heck don't want to drink or bathe in the stuff! I know a lady whose mother went into kidney failure because of it...but, nooo, it's not hazardous. Ha
So, yes, I agree with you. People really need to think and stop acting like sheep.

 

[GOLDENSEABRIGHT]

one time I asked someone that owns a chicken farm told "Why does that chicken have three legs?" and he said "So it will weigh more when I have butchered it. the more weight the more money

 

[missnu01]

I really liked this and thought I would share.

 

[bluebirdnanny]

well it was a few years ago their where 10 kittens and they where in bad shape to begin with (1 died the day after they got to us) they where a pure breed something because the lady that dumped them on me helped run our local kitten mill (until i yelled at her mom one to many times and they moved). They lived until they where about 4 weeks old but then they started dropping dead one after another 9 kittens in total died in one week to a rare heart valve disorder we lost 3 in one hour on the same day needless to say i had a crash course in feline CPR that day. I would have put them down if they had told me the reason why they wanted to get rid of them is because two cull cats both with the same heart problems got into each other pens and had two litters of kittens. If i ever have to watch the life leave a bunch of baby's in my arms ever again i have to say i will be seriously thinking about suicide. Anyway a week or so after they left my dogs sounded the alarm and i ran out back to check on them to find they had cornered what i thought at first was a log . Until it started mewing i moved the log and a dirty rat i thought at the time came running up my leg from their old backyard. It turns out it was a 3 week old pure breed long haired solid white kitten (my mom swears he is a main coon but idk) i had just finished doing necropsy's (since i couldn't find a vet to do them) and digging graves so i was going to take it straight to a shelter but i had to go to work so i took it inside and put it in a carrier. When i got home my mom had washed him (to which he grew to the size of a softball of fuzzy cuteness) she put a cute collar on him and given him the name Mr. Poof 6 years later he is known as my "little man" he loves sunbathing is crazy about cheese and hates dirty litter boxes. he is going to be 7 in October

Awww... so glad he is still with you. He looks like my Spaz that died a few years ago. Still miss that little sweet man. I can't imagine what he would do around my chickens now. I have his friend Pistol and now another rescue named Lady and am really suprised Lady hasn't made any effort to get in the melon box on my table with the chicks. Though there IS a wire hardware cloth laying over the top just in case since her first 5 years of life were feral. But I do miss the spastic running wall to wall Spaz used to do. Then he'd go hide... was a very timid cat. Take care of that little love.

 

[vehve]

I really liked this and thought I would share.

To be fair, that sign might actually be there more to discourage people from frolicking about the fields than to actually keep people out of harms way. I used to live in a place where crops where grown in the middle of urban population, and you wouldn't believe the amount of people who think it's okay to go out on a wheatfield and let their dogs loose.