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

[hennotrooster]

A lady at the store told me "White chickens lay white eggs and brown chickens lay brown eggs"

umm.. okay, what about black chickens?

Doesn't it stand to reason that a black chicken lays black eggs. I'm sure you get those all the time

. You ought to dye one black just for fun to mess with people's heads. So multicolored hens lay psychedelic eggs the hippies of the chicken world.

 

[hennotrooster]

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...

too funny...My DIL asked me if our roo was a chicken too.

 

[hennotrooster]

I saw this on pinterest and couldn't help but laugh

Cool science experiment! Dissolve egg shell off with vinegar and it will become a "naked egg" that can bounce... might have to try this with the grandkids

This is the same experiment I did in the 3rd grade back in 1964. The egg does bounce some....Did this will all my kids.

 

[hennotrooster]

Who ARE these people? I've read so many stories of friends/relatives/co-workers, etc, claiming they are grossed out by backyard eggs and won't eat them. Why? I honestly don't get it.
You'd rather eat a 6 week old egg from a chicken that has been in a 2'x2' cage all her life, with 12 other hens, all of whom have had half their beak cut off so they can't kill each other from the stress, who can NOT eat a normal diet, who can NOT do any of the things they were meant to do, and who live in squalor until they are killed at a year old and made into fertilizer or low end dog food!?!?
Thankfully I've never encountered this kind of ignorance. Everyone I've met who knows I gave chickens chomps at the bit to get even half a dozen of my eggs. Several of my apartment dweller peeps have even gone so far as to declare they are getting their own flock one day.
These hyper-ignorant attitudes are just so, well, IGNORANT!
Makes me grumpy...

Don't be grumpy those are the people that make life interesting and the ones that need us to help them through the realities of life. Like me, knowing but not wanting to see all the creatures crawl all over the wheat that made it too real. If you ever encounter one of them that walks among us and they ask you a crazy egg or chicken question direct them to the computer and have them look up where their eggs come from if they have half a heart they will stop buying them. But send them to a site that will make them cry for those hens and the abuse they suffer to feed us.

 

[hennotrooster]

Ask them if they ever eat crab. Then tell them to google what crabs eat.

Tell them that a crab is just a sea roach as are shrimp.....a friend at a buffet in Vegas was saying this as she seen the shrimp start to disappear well some people started to leave the line. How silly we can be.

 

[SJ]

I tell ya some peoples kids...

. My mom's boyfriend wont eat my eggs from my backyard cause he says, get this "Its weird." But cookies with my eggs in them are totally fine. Why? Because he is just another person that doesn't think about where his food is coming from or what it takes to put groceries on a store shelf. Ignorance is bliss or at least entertainment for someone else.

 

[Kiniska]

Tell them that a crab is just a sea roach as are shrimp.....a friend at a buffet in Vegas was saying this as she seen the shrimp start to disappear well some people started to leave the line. How silly we can be.

If roach tasted as good as a shrimp I would eat them. No problem.

 

[animallover505]

My friend is always saying ,"Why do you want to know where your food comes from? Why don't you just eat it like everyone else?"

 

[Jennsbirds]

If roach tasted as good as a shrimp I would eat them. No problem.

I heard they do. Depends on how they're cooked and what roaches, though.

 

[hennotrooster]

My friend is always saying ,"Why do you want to know where your food comes from? Why don't you just eat it like everyone else?"

Because if we do not know, we end up eating pink slime and not meat. Ignorance can be blissful and can hurt you.