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

[subhanalah]

Huh?  Oh, do tell!

I'm waiting for this one as well. Not that I'm an activist, just curious LOL!

When the spiritual teacher and his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat who lived in the monastery made such noise that it distracted them. So the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice.

Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session.

And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and tied up.

Centuries later, learned descendants of the spiritual teacher wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice.

http://users.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/ritualcat.html

 

[ChaoSS]

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...n-teach-us-about-human-behavior-facts-fiction

"This is how MM described the experiment in his blog post. "This human behavior of not challenging assumptions reminds me of an experiment psychologists performed years ago. They started with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, they hung a banana on a string with a set of stairs placed under it. Before long, a monkey went to the stairs and started to climb towards the banana. As soon as he started up the stairs, the psychologists sprayed all of the other monkeys with ice cold water. After a while, another monkey made an attempt to obtain the banana. As soon as his foot touched the stairs, all of the other monkeys were sprayed with ice cold water. It's wasn't long before all of the other monkeys would physically prevent any monkey from climbing the stairs. Now, the psychologists shut off the cold water, removed one monkey from the cage and replaced it with a new one. The new monkey saw the banana and started to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attacked him. After another attempt and attack, he discovered that if he tried to climb the stairs, he would be assaulted. Next they removed another of the original five monkeys and replaced it with a new one. The newcomer went to the stairs and was attacked. The previous newcomer took part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, they replaced a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey tried to climb the stairs, he was attacked. The monkeys had no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they were beating any monkey that tried. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys had ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approached the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been around here." MM then concludes: "People sometimes do the same in the workplace. How many times have you heard "It has always been done this way. Don't mess with what works." Instead of challenging these assumptions, many of us, like the monkeys, simply keep reproducing what has been done before. It's the easiest thing to do." "

 

[LulaGirl6]

Here's a good one: we used to get eggs from my MIL before my girls started laying. Until one day, after she had collected her day's worth and took them straight to the kitchen sink. I'm thinking ok, whatever, she's just washing the poop off. She proceeded to fill the sink with hot water and I'm thinking to myself *I don't really think hot is necessary but whatever* and then this happened: she got a bottle of bleach out from under the sink. And dumped some in the water. Followed by the eggs. !!! What??? I asked her why she did that (I should have known better because she was incredibly overly-adamant about it like she is all things and proceeded to tell me that I NEED to do this to my eggs) and she told me that it was to kill all the bad bacteria on them. Umm yeah AND the good bacteria! And maybe I'm wrong but aren't there tiny holes in the shells sometimes? Soooo the bleach would get in...? Needless to say we stopped getting eggs from her and bought them from the store before my girls started laying.

 

[sunflower4you]

Here's a good one: we used to get eggs from my MIL before my girls started laying. Until one day, after she had collected her day's worth and took them straight to the kitchen sink. I'm thinking ok, whatever, she's just washing the poop off. She proceeded to fill the sink with hot water and I'm thinking to myself *I don't really think hot is necessary but whatever* and then this happened: she got a bottle of bleach out from under the sink. And dumped some in the water. Followed by the eggs. !!! What??? I asked her why she did that (I should have known better because she was incredibly overly-adamant about it like she is all things and proceeded to tell me that I NEED to do this to my eggs) and she told me that it was to kill all the bad bacteria on them. Umm yeah AND the good bacteria! And maybe I'm wrong but aren't there tiny holes in the shells sometimes? Soooo the bleach would get in...? Needless to say we stopped getting eggs from her and bought them from the store before my girls started laying.

She was washing off all of the protective bloom on the outside of the egg!

 

[LulaGirl6]

She was washing off all of the protective bloom on the outside of the egg!

Exactly! That good bacteria's there for a reason and she just bleached it all away... Can't wait to try one of our eggs and see if there's a difference

 

[Double Kindness]

Wow started off sharing recipes lol.

Chocolate idiot cake

10 oz dark chocolate
8 oz butter
Melt in double boiler until smoith set aside
5 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp espresso powder or instant coffee granules
1/2 tsp star kay white chocolate extract
Beat with mixer until light and foamy, add melted chocolate and butter.

Butter 8" springform pan, line with parchment and dust with cocoa powder. Line outside of springform pan with aluminum foil.
Preheat oven 350. Get bigger pan put in 1 inch hot water. Put in springform pan with batter and cover. Bake 70-90 minutes and the batter is still jiggly. Remove from water bath ans remove foil. Cool in fridge 6 hours. Slice into 16 slices (very rich and decadent lol).

 

[poodlechicks]

Yummy!!! I'm going to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Double Kindness]

I made one on friday and brought angel food cake and slices of this chocolate idiot cake to another byc member yesterday. I hope it's well received.

I picked up 5 chicks yesterday that are thought to be cemani covered by possibly black/white paint/splash orpington? I'm already falling in awww so adorable love with these teensy weensie chicks. I need to keep in mind, these are food, these are food. But then thought, well, maybe I can keep a few girls.. that are pretty & add them to my laying flock.

At the rate my chicks are going through the eggs I collect every day and cook for them, I am justifying my need to add more chickens to my laying flock.

A skunk wandered into a live animal trap last night. It was quite funny trying to figure out how to release it without getting sprayed but I was busy tending to 3 different "flocks" of chickens.

Whhhaattt!? Washing eggs with bleach and hot water? That sounds crazy. I rinse mine off before I crack them to get anything off the shell, then rinse off the shell and get the membrane from inside the shell off then crush them in my hand while I slip on my "chicken boots" and bring them outside.

Now, I can't figure out, why sometimes I find my rooster in the nesting boxes, is he making a bigger divot in the straw for my/his hens? And why is my rose comb leghorn always seemingly on top of the coop this past 4 days?

Chicken tv is better than soap operas and reality tv and much better for the heart, mind & soul.

 

[7 Biddies]

Tell her it would save her time and trouble if she just ran them through the dishwasher. Top rack would work best.

 

[sunflower4you]