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

[tsuninight]

We live within city limits and had to acquire a livestock permit to own a maximum of 8 hens. Our grumpy neighbor wanted to find any reason for us NOT to be able to own chickens (they are dirty, they will smell bad, they will be loud etc. etc.) but the best of all was when she told DH that "they reduce wild bird populations." Being that DH has a Wildlife B.S. degree, he was able to put any and all of her worries to rest (and handled it much more calmly that I would have!). To this day we both exchange hearty chuckles over the "wild bird population," bit. Sometimes ignorance is just too funny not to laugh at!

... really... because I swear I have the fattest wild birds in town. LOL Since they figured out the chickens have food and are spoiled rotten they show up to take advantage. One evening we looked out and there were FLOCKS of them. The only thing I've ever seen my chickens chase is a little dog and occasionally my cats if they are standing on the good food... well and me, but usually that's begging... effective begging.

 

[tsuninight]

Later he also commented that if something happened that we lost the electric power and the internet that he preferred to be dead because he could not survive without those things. So much nonsence in a few days just got me tired.

As an internet addict this makes me laugh. "life or internet that is the question". I choose life. I still have family I love and chickens to entertain me. ... well and cats and friends and family, but you get the drift. I do not wish to lose the internet, but it's absolutely silly that you'd rather die than not have internet. *shakes head*

 

[maransfan16]

i love this thread there are so many funny stories and some that i have even dealt with. but one of mine that still amazes me is when i had to argue with someone that goats and sheep are two different things they swore up and down that sheep were all female and goats were all male their reasoning was that ALL goats have beards which makes them male and that sheep were female because they all "just look like girls"

another was when a friend of mine who has to pick up city teens to take them to a sort of detention center had a kid in the car when they drove past a field with a white horse in it and the kid said "WHOA I'VE NEVER SEEN A WHITE DEER BEFORE" to which he asked where the kid had ever seen a deer before and the kid bluntly said "on TV". and THIS is where our society is headed

 

[loveourbirds]

do you ever feel like the movie "idiocracy" is coming true?

 

[maransfan16]

anytime i talk to someone like i talked about or when i read some of the stories on this thread lol

 

[indigo3]

not related to chickens but I had a friend who did not believe me that male deer, bucks, loose their antlers every year and then grow new ones lol it took actual research and books to get her to believe me, she thought I was joking

 

[eweaber]

Right after I got my chickens a coworker told me he wouldn't eat fresh eggs because "the yolk is too yellow". For some reason he can't eat an egg with a bright yellow yolk.

 

[nova022]

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I get about nine eggs a day which my husband and family love, but I can barely eat them because they taste too eggy. lol

 

[Tabatha]

I have a silkie hen that crows in the morning to get my attention and tell me she wants scratch and out. There are two roosters in that pen. She doesn't like to submit to the boys and prefers to hang out with the girls so she's left alone and only rarely lays an egg. Once every month or so. I've caught her in the act and watched her lay, so I know she does lay. She will help out with the chicks when one of the others has them, but doesn't go broody herself. She has the body shape and feather quality of a hen. She has the worst crest of any of my silkies and it swoops back some and her comb is bigger than the other hens so her head looks boyish. I haven't named her but I think she needs to be called Dr Frankenfurter. 

...So Funny...My 4 Year Old Daughter (Who Has Took It On Herself To Try And "Save" Every Egg I Get Because She Wants There To Be Baby Chix In Them) LOVES that Movie. We Have Hens Named Brad, Janet, And Rocky. It's Really Funny When She Struts Around The House (Or Walmart) Singing "Im A Sweet Transvestite!" Not A Funny Thing About Eggs Or Chickens, But Had To share.

 

[RachaelS]

do you ever feel like the movie "idiocracy" is coming true?

Wow, another person that thinks the same thing as me, LOL!!!! I really think more people should watch that movie. Except I doubt they would understand the irony