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

[7 Biddies]

I shouldn't reply to myself, but an acquaintance of mine eats raccoons. The ones that persist in hanging around his chickens, despite the many measures his wife and he have taken to discourage predators, tend to die of mysterious health injuries and then fall into the oven or stew pot.

Since the varmints were attempting to eat the chickens, it only sounds fair.

 

[7 Biddies]

My one EE rooster is the funniest of the 5 roosters I have. He doesn't like any of the other birds.....or the cat....and runs everyone off. Silly boy.

My silly cats think the hens are to play with. The hens do not agree. Yesterday, I saw a cat sneak up on a chicken who suddenly turned, startling the cat who responded with a large leap into the air, followed by a 180 degree turn and a fast exit, stage right. The neighbor's dog treed the same cat last night, and the dog, in turn, was chased away by my attack cat. It's very entertaining around here.

 

[7 Biddies]

Speaking of cats and chickens giving milk, I found my silliest cat in the nest box yesterday. If chickens give milk, do cats also lay eggs?

 

[Ibicella]

Are they connected to the ones that decided to "rescue" a dairy herd in Manteca? It seems one of their associates drove by and noticed the dairy cows standing in the mud right outside the milking parlor and decided that they were being abused by being "forced" to stand in mud puddles.

They decided to come out and "rescue" the entire herd using a two horse trailer. Fortunately, someone noticed the proceedings, and called the sheriff since it was clear they were there stealing cattle. The sheriff cited them for Trespassing (did I mention that they had ignored those signs as well?). Apparently there was quite the rodeo in progress when the deputy arrived because the "fiends of animals" had no idea that cattle do not like to leave the herd, and even a gentle dairy cow is still Bossy at heart. You can imagine what Bossy thought when these people she didn't know, who didn't know how to approach her, started chasing them around (we all know what that does to milk production), and generally created chaos.

Bossy, not being particularly concerned, still tries to get as close to the door to the milking parlor as her rank in the herd permits her, and her feet still wear away the ground and lead to the formation of mud puddles outside the door; she's less concerned about standing in mud and far more interested in a thorough milking and a good feed.

There was a story similar to that one years ago around here, but a small group of fiends of animals tried to rescue a herd of beef cattle in the dead of night...in the spring, when the mothers have just calved. And for anyone who doesn't know beef cattle, they are NOTHING like dairy cows. Beef cattle are about 1,200 - 1,500 pounds of WICKED bad temper, especially if they have calves, and one of the leading causes of death to farmers who raise them.

Several people ended up injured, one person very badly by getting trampled and in the hospital with broken ribs, two broken legs, some internal bleeding, and one hell of a lawsuit for cattle rustling.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

What a shame the cattle didn't stampede.

Actually Bossy and her girl friends were in hot pursuit apparently.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

There was a story similar to that one years ago around here, but a small group of fiends of animals tried to rescue a herd of beef cattle in the dead of night...in the spring, when the mothers have just calved. And for anyone who doesn't know beef cattle, they are NOTHING like dairy cows. Beef cattle are about 1,200 - 1,500 pounds of WICKED bad temper, especially if they have calves, and one of the leading causes of death to farmers who raise them.

Several people ended up injured, one person very badly by getting trampled and in the hospital with broken ribs, two broken legs, some internal bleeding, and one hell of a lawsuit for cattle rustling.

Even dairy cows are capable of taking strong exception. But attempting to mess with mother beeves sounds like the definition of insanity. They could have upset the cattle enough that they might have injured themselves or retarded the growth in those young calves. And think of the psychic trauma inflicted on the poor ranch family.

BTW - Did you see the film of the Puyallup Roundup cattle drive where a few beeves decided to leave the herd and go into a local convenience/liquor store? This hand rode in on the world's coolest cow horse and they just went around the convenience store, with the horse doing his cow horse thing, heading them up and moving them right back out into the street. I was so impressed by that horse - no reaction to the flashing displays, carefully finding his footing on the slick flooring, no spookiness around the frightened, yelling, customers, just keeping his mind on business. Fairly tall rangy horse, maybe part pudding foot. I was so impressed.

 

[bigmrg74]

There was a story similar to that one years ago around here, but a small group of fiends of animals tried to rescue a herd of beef cattle in the dead of night...in the spring, when the mothers have just calved. And for anyone who doesn't know beef cattle, they are NOTHING like dairy cows. Beef cattle are about 1,200 - 1,500 pounds of WICKED bad temper, especially if they have calves, and one of the leading causes of death to farmers who raise them.

Several people ended up injured, one person very badly by getting trampled and in the hospital with broken ribs, two broken legs, some internal bleeding, and one hell of a lawsuit for cattle rustling.

When I was younger I was helping a family friend run his herd through a chute for vet work. He had an old dairy barn with the milking parlor that was mostly just left there. Anyways, me and his grandson go in there to move the herd towards the chute and they spook and stampede through the barn and parlor. Luckily, there was a solid concrete wall there that I was able to get up next to and stay there until they calmed down. they made a few laps around the parlor and their covered run area, smashed up some steel gates that was supposed to separate the parlor area from the run area.

 

[evemfoster]

When I was younger I was helping a family friend run his herd through a chute for vet work. He had an old dairy barn with the milking parlor that was mostly just left there. Anyways, me and his grandson go in there to move the herd towards the chute and they spook and stampede through the barn and parlor. Luckily, there was a solid concrete wall there that I was able to get up next to and stay there until they calmed down. they made a few laps around the parlor and their covered run area, smashed up some steel gates that was supposed to separate the parlor area from the run area.

When in my late teens I started working for a local hatchery that also had Aberdeen Angus beef cattle wandering about freely grazing between the chicken houses. I had to walk from one end of the farm to the other twice each day. At the middle of the farm there were two pens with their two bulls penned up in separate stalls sided by side. The pens were built out of 12x12s, and were about 8 feet high. One day while i was walking past the pens the bulls took exception to one another and in the blink of an eye there was shards of wood flying everywhere and I was running from the fighting bulls. I ended up inside a chicken house and the bulls knocked a corner out of the building before they suddenly stopped fighting and headed off in different directions to check out the heifers. They took out about 30 feet of 12x12 fencing, the corner of the coop, and smashed in the side of the bosses truck in less than 2 minutes and didn't even seem to notice.

 

[Ibicella]

Even dairy cows are capable of taking strong exception. But attempting to mess with mother beeves sounds like the definition of insanity. They could have upset the cattle enough that they might have injured themselves or retarded the growth in those young calves. And think of the psychic trauma inflicted on the poor ranch family.

BTW - Did you see the film of the Puyallup Roundup cattle drive where a few beeves decided to leave the herd and go into a local convenience/liquor store? This hand rode in on the world's coolest cow horse and they just went around the convenience store, with the horse doing his cow horse thing, heading them up and moving them right back out into the street. I was so impressed by that horse - no reaction to the flashing displays, carefully finding his footing on the slick flooring, no spookiness around the frightened, yelling, customers, just keeping his mind on business. Fairly tall rangy horse, maybe part pudding foot. I was so impressed.

Yeah, I've worked with dairys...and been chased by dairies. I accidently walked into one at night in the dark, and she definitely took exception to me waking her up! Never ran so fast in my life! *L*

The dummies trying to "rescue" the beeves happened a really long time ago, when I was still a kid. I remember asking "Did anyone survive?" So it's always stuck in my head.

I didn't see that about the cattle in the convenience store! That sounds hilarious. When did that happen?

 

[tridentk9]

1. You can really eat the egg strait from the butt??
2. Is it safe to eat the blue eggs?? No way those are natural!
3. Ewww, you can eat a fertilized egg?

Also, I once convinced my sister that chickens give milk:

Me "You do know that chickens give milk right?"
Her "No way"
Me "Than what do you think chicks eat?"
Her "Ok, than why isn't it sold in supermarkets?"
Me "Because the milk has certain protiens that humans cannot digest, making in unplatable and possably deadly"
Her "OMG, THAT'S SO COOL, I NEVER KNEW THAT!!!"


Dumb@$$&$

There is a bird's milk cake and bird's milk candy. I usually get it when I visit the Euro market.