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

[jnntefend]

And pop him once for me too. I'm another mom of a special needs kid.

 

[hennotrooster]

Your son needs to take Sex Education 101. He obviously does not know what a period is. Chickens don't have them. Very few animals do. Reproductive cycles, yes. Periods, no. And if he thinks animal products are so bad for us, ask him while he is doing research to see if he can find a primate, any primate, that subsists on a totally vegan diet in the wild.

Well in his quest to be "healthier" he turned to the computer and that is what he read. I keep reminding him that he not only was raised on dairy, meat, eggs and a lot of veggies and fruit he never had any of the childhood diseases nor has he ever had a cavity not one of them did. So meat is not the problem the problem is that the boy could eat a side of beef by himself. I think he will be back soon.

 

[jnntefend]

"Oh, wow, you are going to let your son be around live chickens?!"

to my son: "You be sure to wash your hands after every time you touch them, or you'll get sick!"



You have got to be kidding me!

A. That's MY kid, not your kid. How DARE you tell him what to do right in front of me????
B. As if I don't make sure my child washes his hands!
C. How dare you tell my son that the chickens will make hims sick?!"

 

[countrygirl74]

I always have so much fun reading about people's crazy ideas about chickens... I haven't had any stupid questions asked to me YET.

Just wanted to comment that yes, chickens like raw meat. I recently learned that feeding them raw hamburger is MUCH better than giving them the leftover cooked burger due to the amount of nutrients. Some people clean out their freezers and give them all the freezer-burned or outdated meat too.

As for dogs, they definitely need meat. I have friends who raise rabbits solely to feed their dogs. They are Livestock Guardian Dogs and they have never had dog food.

 

[TallChickMagnet]

This happened today in my backyard with a new neighbor:

Him: So, you have hens I see. How many do you have? (He starts to count)

Me: Right now only 19.

Him: I count 20, did they have a baby?

Me: No, you said, "hens"... One is a rooster.

Him: Aren't they all hens?

Me: No, they're all chickens...

 

[CGinJCMO]

"Oh, wow, you are going to let your son be around live chickens?!"

to my son: "You be sure to wash your hands after every time you touch them, or you'll get sick!"

You have got to be kidding me!

A. That's MY kid, not your kid. How DARE you tell him what to do right in front of me????
B. As if I don't make sure my child washes his hands!
C. How dare you tell my son that the chickens will make hims sick?!"

That reminds me of last year...I bought the last two chicks at the feed store but still needed to go to Petco for some fish supply/item (don't remember what it was now - not important to the story). So I took the box into the store with me because I didn't want to end up taking a longer time in the store than i planned and having the chicks get overheated in the car (didn't know if that was a strong possibility but I've heard enough stories of pets dying and didn't want that to happen if I could help it). Anyway, a little girl heard the peep-peeps coming from my box and asked what I had in the box. I showed them to her. She wanted to pet them, but I declined and I told her that she would have to wash her hands very well so she wouldn't get sick from them. This way she also couldn't hurt them accidently.and yet I didn't make her feel bad.

CG

 

[Lifestudent]

Yes too much fat/grease greases the works too much. that is as polite as I know to put it. I had a dog and by accident OD'd the dog with grease, the dog I knew felt bad a few days and I wish I had done it to myself instead because I didn't know not to feed her lots of fat/grease and she didn't know not to eat all of it....

A lot depends on the breed of dog and whether it's an indoor or outdoor dog as to how much fats they can have, or even if they should have any.

 

[jnntefend]

my earliest memory with food is eating concord grapes off the vine in the backyard with my Grandad. Thanks for making me remember that... my second food memory is eating fried eggs... my gang turned 20 weeks old today, so maybe soon I will enjoy thinking about THAT memory while I eat some super fresh eggs!!!

You know what I remember? This wild grape we have in East Texas called a Muskadine... My grandma would take us out to the woods and hunt them and we would eat them straight off the vine till our tummies hurt. Oh, and my Grandma had this pear tree... I was raised a city girl and thought pears came from a can (they were put there by a man in a factory downtown....), and when I had my first taste of pear straight from that tree, I couldn't stop eating them. My grandmother kept telling me I would get sick, but I thought "How can somethign this wonderful make me sick? I sure found out how a couple hours later...

But those were wonderful times... I think my Grandma is why I decided to leave the city and start this rural life. Thanks Grandma, for pears, and porch pea-shelling!

 

[bcmama]

Someone saw a picture of my EE's green eggshell and they asked me if I was actually going to eat it? I said, "yes why?" and she responded that she thought it was gross because the egg inside would be a rotten. I tried to explain that it was only the shell that was green. Oh well. I know she won't be asking me for eggs.

 

[cassie]

If you get a chance, ask her if she has even ever seen a rotten egg. And if she did, what color was it?