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

[ChickyChickens]

One of our customers was watching my broody NN caring for her chicks. When i came out she said to me that chickens are very cowardly! At that same time a falcon came and tried to take a chick, but then the mother fought back. The customer just stared at me!
Then she wanted to hold a chick. I said she may but she must be careful, so she went and picked one up! The mother didn't agree with her and started chasing her and instead of putting it down, she ran away with it with the mother hot in pursuit! The mother caught up and thrashed her!
She never said anything, got into her car and sped off!
I was killing myself laughing!

 

[Double Kindness]

Oh my! I got some needed laughs this morning!

I grew up in Alaska, my dad hunted a lot and fished. We stored food away all summer, grew a garden, 1 for us, some for the moose that would wander into our yard to eat cabbages.

We're lucky with a 1/2 a grass fed cow in the freezer and a whole pasture raised hog otw to the processor on Thursday. I have 26 7-8 week old dp straight run chickens headed for freezer camp in a month or 2. 10 in the laying flock for eggs. 6 fancy chickens in the barn brooder box, 18 chicks expected Tuesday for my sustainable meat flock (white bresse, ayam cemani), & getting a pregnant new zealand white doe meat rabbit in 3-4 weeks. I just started to homestead in June this year and I'm much happier and we're definitely eating much better.

Some people keep telling me, oh if you become vegan you can just keep all your chickens as pets and hatch all their eggs.

Yeah... I'm NOT going to just keep multiplying my flock to have chickens to not eat eggs or meat from.

And oh, you shouldn't eat your chickens, get your meat from the grocery store! It's safer and organic, so just as good. *no it's not!*

Your chickens must be sick or something if your eggs are green and blue.

Are you really going to eat black chicken meat from your rare ayam cemani chickens? Just raise them all...

Exactly what do I need with 6 black ayam cemani roosters? Not keeping 6 roosters in my very urban homestead. People are giving me the biggest grief about me planning on eating my extra ayam cemani roosters, and that they have black skin/meat.

I only wish they were going to be big enough to make a great Halloween feast to really shock and awe people. Many of my foodie/chef friends are super excited for black meat, bresse, capons, rabbit meat, duck, quail and chicken eggs & meat.

There are way too many people disconnected to their food and think I'm insane. They're insane for not doing what I do lol.

 

[hennible]

Never could understand keeping a ton of roosters.... Guess people don't know alternative to you eating your Roos they may eat each other.

 

[enola]

Never could understand keeping a ton of roosters.... Guess people don't know alternative to you eating your Roos they may eat each other.

Me neither. I do have several roosters. I raise several breeds and types of chickens. My roosters are in breeding pens, when they are not, they are in the bachelor/grow out pen. When a young rooster starts crowing, off he goes to freezer camp. My laying hens do not even have a rooster in the pen with them. My hens are HAPPY, my roosters are probably not as happy as they want to be..........

But, they are livestock, not pets or children!

 

[hennible]

I was hoping to have some Roos this year to justify butchering some old hens.... Ha, so out of 7 buff Orpington's one roo lol. Oh well the old girls have another year. I'm bound to get Roos next year. Its good any how I need more layers, just didn't want to set everything up to do 4 old soup girls.

 

[poodlechicks]

Early 50's. I'd heard of someone who sold a hen with chicks to a customer and the customer called her a week or two later, saying the chicks were dying because the hen apparently ran out of milk, what should she do. I was skeptical about the story until my SIL pretty much confirmed that people really are that clueless. I told her that no, chickens are not mammals, and showed her the chick starter, but now, come to think of it, I'm not sure she knows what a mammal is.

As we in the South say, well, bless her heart!

The hen ran out of milk?!!!
I grew up in the city and lived most of my adult life in the city. I was never that disconnected. I agree with you: bless her heart

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Around where I live you rarely see that level of ignorance, very small farming community. A lot of my family's food comes from outside. We still have hogs on dirt, eat grass fed beef and more deer and small game than you can shake a stick at. I do remember a girl in college asking me how I could eat my pets (which they aren't really pets anyhow), I just replied, like this & commenced taking a bite of a sandwich. She was disgusted and called me a cave man. I just politely smiled and said thank you, haha







not a chicken but an example of how we get our meat, its a family affair. Do the same w/ everything.

If I tried that here in California, I'd be lynched.

 

[ChickyChickens]

If I tried that here in California, I'd be lynched.

Hehehehehe!

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Film tasting bad was a great one

I'm glad you eat the meat you hunt. Some people I know give the meat to charity. I have heard of people who hunt just to leave the carcass to rot. That to me is unacceptable.

In every state I've been in, leaving the carcass to rot is illegal, except for certain forms of varmint hunting.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

"WoodenCoyote"
-Thank you! He widdled on my friend's kitchen cabinets in an attempt to woo her lady cat. It didn't work.-

Lol! Too funny. Cats are priceless.

I also must say to all the hunters on here, that hunting is wonderful way to get food on the table. Before I was born it was how my family survived. And what's better, taking a mature wild animal who lived well and wild or eating a critter who was caged in back of the grocery store.....

Omg meat growing in the grocery store I will never get over that! If anyone sees a steak tree let me know.

If anyone sees a steak tree, bring me a cutting.