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

[7 Biddies]

Today, I finally recieved the classic, "Don't you need a rooster to get eggs?" when I told my firend I was rehoming my roosters.

"I decided I don't want any more eggs."

Later .... "I don't understand it. I got rid of the roosters so they wouldn't lay anymore, but I'm still getting eggs. Drat!"

 

[7 Biddies]

We all remember being teenagers at one time, when you get older you start to go through phases (well I did)

5 - Why can't we let all the homeless people live in our garage, daddy? (actually said this)
9 - I am going to be president and make everyone in the world happy
12 - Wow I really didn't know how the world works, but now that I know I am going to be great and save the world
16 - Dam I was dumb but I am smarter now and I am going to change the world, Why doesn't the rest of the world see how easy it would be to solve all of the problems.
18 - Wow I was really dumb but now I am an adult and I am going to make the world I live in a better place
21 - What was I thinking? I will just focus on being rich and famous!
24 - Boy was I naive, People suck! I will just finish school and get a good paying job that I love.
30 - Any job will do just leave me alone and let me do it.

45- Everyone is responsible for their own happiness. No one else *makes* you happy.

60 - Once I retire, I'm retreating to the mountains and avoiding people as much as possible, except for a few close friends and select family members.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Here's my phases:

1-12-Constantly stressed out by what is going on in the world, how people are being brainwashed by big corporations, and wars are constantly breaking out for no reason, and the fact that I can basically do nothing (in the big picture) about it..

Still waiting to see what will happen next...

7Biddies, here's my select family: Me

 

[SophieL]

45- Everyone is responsible for their own happiness. No one else *makes* you happy.

60 - Once I retire, I'm retreating to the mountains and avoiding people as much as possible, except for a few close friends and select family members.

Amen, sister.

 

[cheeka]

16 - golly, how did my folks get so far... they don't know anything... i can't wait to get out on my own.

24-26 - the realization hits home hard that Mom and Dad had it right all along... thanks for everything, glad i'm still here to tell ya how much i love you both and am making the best of this life you've given me..

46 - Mom, Dad, I would love it if you will come live with me................................

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

My MIL grew up with chickens and told me I had to de-beak them or else they would kill each other...even if I let them free range ("why on earth would you let them outside?"). She also thought I needed a rooster for eggs.

 

[Jadnils]

I am not sure I lasted that long.

Cannot even go there...poor miserable existance and to think, that happens in all our big food(meat) supplies)...cannot even think about that...

 

[7 Biddies]

My MIL grew up with chickens and told me I had to de-beak them or else they would kill each other...even if I let them free range ("why on earth would you let them outside?"). She also thought I needed a rooster for eggs.

I have friends that grew up with chickens; one remembers the smell of the beaks being burned off. Another, fascinated with my breeds, only knew of 2 kinds of chickens, white and brown. I think they kept them in the large (now abandoned, falling down, kudzu covered) chicken houses that I see dotting the countryside. I can't imagine that country people raised chickens like that back in the 1950's and 60's. I thought that was strictly the big time commercial chicken operations and the small time farmers had them running loose around the farm. I *do* hope that, seeing me with my flock of 7 and the nice coop I keep them in, they realize that the cruelty isn't necessary. However, even in their home veggie gardens, they're still plowing and using chemical fertilizers/sprays. It's tough to extinguish old ways and reeducate people. Consequently, they think I'm nuts.

 

[7 Biddies]

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7Biddies, here's my select family: Me

If that's what works for you, go for it!! And, don't let anyone send you on a guilt trip over it!

 

[Texokie1]

A vistor having coffee at our home, looking out the dining-room window, observed 6 of our hens having a mass-dustbathing session.
She got a disturbed look on her face and uttered the following:
"OMG!!! ARE THEY SICK???? DO THEY HAVE RABIES OR SOMETHING????"

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I politely engaged her.... "Nope....." I said, then asked "How do you think they make eggs to lay?????"

Mrs. promptly kicked my shin under the table............

HA! Got a related one: a friend of mine lives next to a fella that "free-ranges" his chickens...all over the neighborhood. Well, a few wandered into her yard, where the resident red-tail hawk promptly took one out. My friend (a huge wildlife fan) went outside to take pics of the hawk when the chickens' owner showed up. He saw the chicken, and went inside for a rifle. My friend told him that there was NO WAY he could shoot into her yard, and besides, shooting a hawk is illegal. He tried to convince her that he HAD to shoot it because, "Hawks don't normally eat chickens...that one is acting really weird...it must be rabid." (Needless to say, my friend forbid him from shooting it, and the "rabid" hawk got to enjoy a meal...) Funny how a hawk doing what comes naturally is thought of as being sick...