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

[subhanalah]

How do you know of an egg is fertile?

when I cracked them open, I look for the germinal disk. If it's just a white dot, it is infertile. If there is a pattern of concentric white and darker yellow circles (like a bullseye with the white as the center dot) then it is fertile. I was unable to get a picture due to the glare. There's a thread around here though.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/16008/how-to-tell-a-fertile-vs-infertile-egg-pictures

 

[mandtroof]

when I cracked them open, I look for the germinal disk. If it's just a white dot, it is infertile. If there is a pattern of concentric white and darker yellow circles (like a bullseye with the white as the center dot) then it is fertile. I was unable to get a picture due to the glare. There's a thread around here though.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/16008/how-to-tell-a-fertile-vs-infertile-egg-pictures

Thanks! Clicked on the link you forwarded and it looks pretty easy to tell.

 

[Peep_Show]

It could be he also is getting his chicks vaccinated vs. unvaccinated when home-laid.

 

[subhanalah]

It could be he also is getting his chicks vaccinated vs. unvaccinated when home-laid.

what?

 

[luvmypets]

cant wait to hear more stories

 

[vehve]

@luvmypets I'm sure whoever is interested in breeding programs will contribute to your thread without any need to advertise it in a crass manner.

 

[roseyred]

OMG, I was telling a lady at work the other day that I'll be getting chickens this summer and plan to have lots and lots of eggs.  I told her I'd bring some in for her so that she can taste how much better they are.

Know what she said?

Her: "Oh my GAWD, eeeeeewwwwww, I could never eat those eggs!"

Me: "Ummmm, why not?

Her: "Well, BECAUSE, they came out of a chicken's butt!"

Me: "Ummmmm.  Huh?  You eat eggs from the store, right?"

Her: "Well, yeah, of COURSE, but that's different!"

Me: "How is that different?  Those eggs also came out of a chicken."

Her: "But those are all sanitary and come in a box."

Me: "I'll wash my eggs and box them for you too."

Her: "Blech, no way.  I could never eat eggs from your chickens.  That's just gross."

Me: "***?"

[Erica walks away shaking head]


WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!

LOL, this is just too much.  No wonder I want to quit my job and become a pioneer woman and never have to leave the house...

Lol!!!!! I feel ya. I told a friend that once the chickens made new chckens to replace them id eat a few and she could have one. And she was like "a dead chicken that's disgusting!" And I was like it's actually better than the ones that you get at the store because I know exactly what I'm feeding it and it doesn't have arsenic in its food, it's 100% organic. She still thought it was the nastiest thing she had ever heard but that just means more chicken for me

 

[luvmypets]

Lol!!!!! I feel ya. I told a friend that once the chickens made new chckens to replace them id eat a few and she could have one. And she was like "a dead chicken that's disgusting!" And I was like it's actually better than the ones that you get at the store because I know exactly what I'm feeding it and it doesn't have arsenic in its food, it's 100% organic. She still thought it was the nastiest thing she had ever heard but that just means more chicken for me

send her the tyson factory video and she wont leave you alone for your "dead chicken" thats apparently disgusting lol

 

[chicksurreal]

send her the tyson factory video and she wont leave you alone for your "dead chicken" thats apparently disgusting lol

Or she will just stop eating chicken altogether. I have never seen such horrors as when I looked at videos of industrialized production of meat. Sickening.

It actually was a good thing though, because it galvanized me into action. I now only purchase meat and poultry from local sources that have been investigated by me personally. Still trying to find fish that I'm comfortable eating. Wild caught is good, but I still question it because I live in AZ. Lol!.

 

[chicksurreal]

Lol!!!!! I feel ya. I told a friend that once the chickens made new chckens to replace them id eat a few and she could have one. And she was like "a dead chicken that's disgusting!" And I was like it's actually better than the ones that you get at the store because I know exactly what I'm feeding it and it doesn't have arsenic in its food, it's 100% organic. She still thought it was the nastiest thing she had ever heard but that just means more chicken for me

Isn't it strange? People are so distant from their sources of food these days, and I include myself in that category to some degree, but I'm trying to change it.