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

[animallover505]

Yep. Of course, she thinks chickens are gross and is the "Eww why would you have them?" type.

 

[SJ]

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

SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM PEOPLE!!! LOL
I couldn't help my self.

 

[moody-chicken]

Told my mum today about the chooks, her response 'oh, I give up' ... I said I've got some small cute ones that don't make too much mess and easy to pick up. Her response 'you know you can catch diseases from chickens, why put yourself at risk?' ... and ... 'well don't eat any of the eggs, god knows what you could come down with, your dicing with death' -- jeez, they are cleaned every week and eat natural food kept in a container away from contaminants ... What do you think they do at egg farms? She thinks because my chickens are not vaccinated continuously or shot full of drugs that they are somehow dirty. Sad I can't share eggs with my family, its half the fun sometimes!

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Not so much with dobies, but your typical large, "aggressive", dog breed owner (I.e. pits, rotties, etc) is not usually the most responsible of dog owners, which is why I believe they have the bad rep. These breeds were created for guarding, protection, gameness for fighting and are VERY strong. They are also strong willed dogs who have a bred in aggressive tendency, if your dog is guarding something, he's not supposed to go up to the intruder and say "Hi, my name is Rover! The silver is this way". Its just their nature. Thus they need a very firm hand and LOTS of training to ensure their behavior will not get out of control because they can and do become dangerous.
Speaking from having had an Am. Staff (smaller pit bull) who we adopted from a stupid teenage boy who did not train him, did not neuter him, and (surprise surprise!) could not control him, I hate to say it but the reputation is there because of irresponsible ownership.
People who do not train these breeds properly are ASKING for trouble. And lets face it, who "usually" owns these breeds? Young males age 16-25 who want a "tough dog", and who have the "if I keep my balls, he keeps his" attitude. BAD BAD BAD IDEA!
Ugh....

To make a long comment short, the "dangerous breeds" may be inherently more aggressive than other breeds because we made them that way. But it's the irresponsible owners that are the real problem, not the dogs. With proper training, any dog can be good.

the whole thing on doberman's being aggressive, mine can be total wimps. they fear my sister, who never even glances their way. I guess its all in breed and care...

 

[oldrooster]

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Same can be said for any shell fish I've been told, along with catfish, and pork..... (and funny those meats are considered "unclean to people eating a Kosher diet"

 

[mabhera]

the whole thing on doberman's being aggressive, mine can be total wimps. they fear my sister, who never even glances their way. I guess its all in breed and care...

Mine thinks she is a lap dog. If she gets scared she runs and hides behind me , but that is my fault. Every time I felt she was in any kind of danger I took her out in a split second. She never had to confront anything dangerous. The biggest example was one time I was walking in the neighborhood with her (Lara) and a stray pit bull (dog agressive but human friendly) ran to attack her. My reaction was to pull her and take her in my arms as high as possible ( she had like 5 or 6 months and weighted like 45 pounds). One neighbor that was feeding her restrained the pit when she was jumping in the air to bite. That was so close I still get panicked remembering. I never took her out the neighborhood again. A guy visiting the neighbor saw everything and found it so ridiculous( me protecting my dog) that he told me so and laugh a lot. I wanted a gentle giant and I got her.

A cat gave birth around my property and Lara gave me headaches because she was sure those kittens where hers. She took them always with her and tried to nurse them. protecting them from everybody including their mom. My sister checked her and found out she (my dobie) was producing a little milk so I told myself enough is enough and took the kittens to the chicken coops. That same night a dog killed them right at the other side of my dobbies fence. She got so depressed she stopped eating for a week.
Thats her with those kittens. I got her fixed the following month to lower down those strong mother instincs.

 

[Jennsbirds]

I thought people had stopped fearing dobermans nd now it was pitts. My parents actually think all those hundreds of victorian photos of kids and pitts, back when they were called Nanny dogs and were guardians to the kids, were all photoshopped. I looked up pitts on the site for National Canin research and they say pitt attacks are all due to bad owners, not dogs born crazy or mean. My mom said that was just spam. My family scares me sometimes.

Last night, my BF and I were talking about chickens. My sister and I can always eat dinner and talk about medical stuff (diseases and cadavers and things), but for some reason, she couldnt bear heaaring about a chicken being killed and plucked for dinner.

 

[sjshaw1980]

Hen - I think I might have to slap people that bad....educating and teaching is awesome, but when people don't want to listen....

 

[Mychicagoladies]

Well I live in chicago and every year the 1st grade class gets to hatch chicks in april. They keep them for 3 weeks then they can bring them home with parents permission of course, and the rest go to a staff member who has a small farm in the burbs. The kids love it.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have read there was an old fashion way of sexing chickens where they pick them up but the scruff, but I am not going to continue the rest of the examination because that old fashion way of sexing was WRONG, and I do not want some newbie who knows nothing about chickens, hear a tiny bit of information about chickens, and suddenly think they are chicken experts. No,no. I know how to feather sex and vent sex, but my babies that I just hatched are babies. I am not going to check, nor at this point do I need to check. They will grow and I will love them, and I will chose the 2 best roos of the bunch, and find homes, for the rest or make chicken soup. But until then they will have a good life and I would hope a good time free ranging.