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

[Time-Out]

I got the egg colour determined by food one yesterday for the first time. What made her say that, I have no idea. All my chickens are kept together in a stable. How they can find different food is beyond me.

 

[Sakmeht]

My neighbor, who use to work with chickens and refuses to let his wife get any because they are 'smelly, disgusting creatures' told me that a rooster will 'pump up' my hens and make them produce 3 or 4 eggs a day! I just smile and nod and walk away feeling sorry for his wife. ROFL

Now, I have heard that introducing a rooster to an aging flock of hens might encourage them to start laying more, but certainly not more than one egg a day.

 

[CitySilkies88]

It was pretty funny last summer when my Silkies started laying eggs.

I had used some eggs to bake a couple cakes and sent one with my mom for my grandparents. A few days later my mom was telling my grandma about how good the Silkie eggs were ect. And my grandma went off about how eating those "Weird chickens" eggs was not safe. My mom explained that Silkie eggs were in that cake that my granparents had so enjoyed and my Grandma just about turned green LOL. She told my mom to NEVER tell her if we use the Silkie eggs in any future baked goods.

Both my mom and I explained to her that eggs are eggs and they are all edible and healthy to eat. But she just would not and still will not accept that the Silkie eggs will not make us sick LOL.

Now that I have my RSL chicks my grandma is all excited for them to mature and start producing eggs for her to eat

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[jamesbwood]

Entertaining thread with common themes revolving around store eggs being safer/better, white eggs being better/safer and the need for roosters.

I wonder where these common miss-perceptions come from. Is there a commercial chicken lobby?

 

[NevadaRon]

Entertaining thread with common themes revolving around store eggs being safer/better, white eggs being better/safer and the need for roosters.

I wonder where these common miss-perceptions come from. Is there a commercial chicken lobby?

Nooo! That's just crazy talk!

 

[tls_ranch]

Speaking of white vs brown eggs....I got a coupon for a free dozen white eggs at the store awhile back. I haven't had store bought eggs in my house for so long and when my 5 year old son saw the white eggs he said, " Somebody painted them WHITE!!". Our chickens lay brown eggs

 

[CitySilkies88]

I have posted this story before but it's appropriate for this thread lol.

Back when my RSL were a couple weeks old I had them in a brooder inside my home. It was kept in our "mud room" at our back door. I was taking and posting pictures of the chicks as they grew and developed on my facebook.

Most of my friends/family would post about how cute/pretty the chicks were. Then one day my dads (crazy) gf posts this long lecture about how chickens are not meant to be in the house and that they carry loads of diseases, and that I was going to get sick and then in turn get my grandparents sick (I help my mother care for my grandpa who has alzheimers). She summed it up by saying that the chicks being in the house would probley put me in the hospital.

It really annoyed me because the woman was just talking out of her butt. I told her that I had done plenty of research and knew all about being sanitary with the chicks. I also informed her that it wasent as if I was letting the chicks run the house and poop all over. It was also insulting that she really thought I would even go over and take care of my grandfather in the same clothes I wore while taking care of the chicks. Grrrrrrr.

 

[Nsampsel]

OH...I forgot the comment from my idiot landlord...

HIM (standing next to my coop looking in)- "What's this?"
ME-"Chickens" (DUH!!!!!) He has watched me build all 3 coops and had already seen my birds at least 5-6 times!!!

HIM (checking a window in my room that I fixed because he was too lazy & it had been over 4 months since he was supposed to fix it)- "You have chickens in the house??? (referring to my brooder with a lid on it)
ME- "yes, they are babies, what do you want me to do with them until they go to the coop?"
HIM- "This isn't a farm"
ME- "No it's a slum that you are too lazy to take care of so I have to do it."
(He knew the entire time I had chicks & ducks because he was in the room with them the week I first got them...He was just being his usual idiot self because I charged him for the repairs he didn't do as promised.)

As for this not being a farm, I've met all city regs for my birds & he gave me no pet restrictions when I moved in. If he wanted to say something about it he shoulda said it almost 3 mos ago.

 

[Jadnils]

I told one of my friends I had gotten 3 young chicks to raise and hopefully have fresh eggs in a few months, they asked me how I would know whether the eggs had a baby chick inside or not....duh ! They are all hens !
My husband was raised in the city and thinks our eggs might have diseases and is apprehensive about eating them( when they start laying that is)...hmmm...
How about the old joke :
If a rooster was sitting on the top of a roof facing north and the wind was blowing from the east and it layed and egg, which side of the roof would it roll off? That one still gets a lot of people !

 

[FarmTillURdead]

I have goats - and a note on the poop... They aren't actually eating it… but pinching them apart looking for whole seeds from the feed. Close investigation shows beak pinches in each nanny berries. I'm sure some is ingested. They will chug dog turds though.

My goat is tall and thinks is great how all the chickens run to inspect a poo. It makes her wag her tail every time.
HILARIOUS she gives the eggs away!

…chickens eat roaches and maggots too. I'd rather them eat poop.

My Mother is a Yankee. My Father grew up on a farm with an outhouse and a well. He tended chickens and cows. My Mom (bless her heart) strains her eggs every morning to filter out the "white stringy things" connected to the yolks. "It's the baby chickens brain", she says. I told her it's their belly button.

We like to tease my foo-foo Mom as she shuns the farm life. On FaceBook she asked about colored eggs. My Dad chimed in and said it had to do with air temp. Most eggs are white because those chickens are in a warehouse where they keep the temp at 75. Brown eggs are from chickens out on hot summer pasture. Then, I posted a photo of a dozen of my blue and green eggs and mentioned how cold it had been out. I told her I get grey ones when it is below zero.

For those who won't eat an egg because it comes from "out of there" I say,… "Do ya eat hamburgers? Well, cows come from there too…. without a shell."

So… I am one of those pushing farm fibs.
Those who aren't into it - never will be. So it's nice they carry a sign for me.
It's wonderful to know I am not alone in my non-frankenfood adventures.