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

[ronott1]

Quote: I have seen weird things happen when people age. My Wife's Grandmother told us that a silly superstition from her youth was that a cat could steal a baby's breath. She laughed about it and knew then that it was not true. When she was older after our third child was born, she told us to keep the cats away because they would steal the baby's breath.

It might come from Dementia? It might also be why con men target the elderly.

 

[donrae]

I haven't read all of these, but what I've read cracks me up.

The one thing that annoys the @#%$ out of me, though, are the chicken commercials (perdue, tyson, etc.) that claim that their chickens eat "a 100% vegetarian diet!" like it's a GOOD thing! All that means is, they're fed 100% corn. Sheesh! Their poor chickens never get to scratch in the dirt for worms, bugs,etc...

My son, who knows what our chickens eat, actually asked me once "They only hire vegetarians to feed the chickens?"

 

[aoxa]

My son, who knows what our chickens eat, actually asked me once "They only hire vegetarians to feed the chickens?"

How adorable!

I like that question

 

[7 Biddies]

My son, who knows what our chickens eat, actually asked me once "They only hire vegetarians to feed the chickens?"

Hmmmm. Now, *there's* a possibility I hadn't thought of.

 

[animallover505]

Down here the white eggs are usually the plain store eggs, and the brown eggs are the "organic" "cagefree" "freerange" "vegetarian" etc. So I have some people that only want brown eggs because they are better for you, and the green/blue eggs are lower in choesterol

. There is some truth to that at the brown, becaue how the chickens are fed, but at home, all my chickens eat the same food. I try to tell people, but I usually get, "I only eat brown eggs because they are better for you", so they just get brown eggs.
A lot of people also think that a blood spot means the egg is fertile

My grandmother thinks that a blood spot means the egg is bad. Most of my eggs have tiny blood spots, and my dad says that it's normal.

 

[Lifestudent]

My son, who knows what our chickens eat, actually asked me once "They only hire vegetarians to feed the chickens?"

I wonder how vegetarians taste.

Eggland's Best and some other egg companies advertise that vegetarian diet as "natural". Maybe natural for them, but not for chickens.

 

[Hinotori]

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Eggland's best tastes icky. Makes me puke more than the other eggs in the store.

My chickens love the seeds and grains I give them, but they will fight over insects or any slow rodents.

 

[GhostRider65]

LOL........ this is the silliest thread, because how can one believe that anyone would prefer yucky sick tasting eggs over fresh............
we ate out a few weeks back for breakfast and stupidity rules and we ordered eggs with our meal, well lets just say EWWWWWWWWW
I have never tasted anything so yucky in my entire life we didn't even eat anything but 1 bite........... and filled up on the potato's and sausage instead..
So I guess I never realized just how bad store bought tastes until I got my own chickens........... mine free range, eat just about anything, that moves, or grows in my yard, I plant a special little garden section for my girls, they get Kale, Foxtail millet, flax, Swiss chard, squash, carrots and beets.......... plus table scraps, and I whip up 2 dozen eggs every couple days fpor them mixed with orgnic peanut butter........... maybe that's why my 30 girls are still laying 28 to 30 eggs a day in the middle of winter, they do get some extra lighting because of my chore time, 6 am, and 6 pm, the lights are left on till I feed the horses there last meal at about 11pm.......... by comparison my neighbor has 60 chickens that maybe lay a dozen a day.......... but she feeds all corn no boss no scratch, and no left overs except if they get a deer or some critter they get to clean the bones....she sprinkles a scoop of meat bird over about 15 dishes of corn......she has dark yolked eggs but they taste terrible next to mine, except during the bug and fresh greens season.....mine also get all the old veggies and fruit that we have here, and with our grandson around thats quite often.......

On a side note I don't like to butcher our chickens but I have extra roo's every year and I'll be dammed if I will let them go to waste hanging out in the rooster pen..... we butcherd 13 last fall and 34 the fall before........ they tatse as good as my eggs too......much prefered over store yucky black boned chicken........ Kim

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Eggland's best tastes icky. Makes me puke more than the other eggs in the store.

My chickens love the seeds and grains I give them, but they will fight over insects or any slow rodents.

Huh. Eggland's Best are the only store eggs my family can stand. To each their own, I guess.

On a side note, companies say that hens eat a vegetarian diet because the thought of animal by-products grosses people out. My hens are "vegetarian fed." To us, that means that the feed is vegetarian--but not that the birds are! They are pastured, so they get lots of bugs. And I don't count the treats they eat as their main diet, so we won't discuss the steak trimmings they got yesterday. Shhhh.

 

[Keric]

We bought store eggs and they claimed "all natural vegetarian diet" and "certified raised humane." A picture of their chickens showed their clipped beaks. Real humane.