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

[loveourbirds]

Quote: my family thinks im strange because i dont read fiction. i just dont have the imagination for it. my basic reading involves blacksmithing, raising chickens, self sufficiency, and sometimes the back of the toothpaste when im in the bathroom.

 

[Jennsbirds]

I think there's a difference between the type of person who states "facts" and won't be willing to learn, and the type of person who when told that a Cornish Hen is a baby chicken declares they won't eat them anymore. That second person probably also would have wanted to know that the chicken they buy in the grocery is 8 weeks old. It sounds like they would have been open to learning about other options. That's not being dumb and argumentative. It's ignorance which can be corrected, and from the sound of it the guy wanted to learn.

People ask me questions about my chickens all the time. I'm talking about the difference between someone who does argue and act like they know it all, and someone who takes in the new information and adjusts their own life. The guy in question sounds like he falls into the second group. I think it's a little hypocritical of us to make fun of people who simply don't know any better, did everyone here wake up one day knowing everything about chickens? No. No one deserves to be made fun of just for not knowing something. The people who argue and refuse to learn are fair game IMO.

Pretty much what you said. Most people are just silly and the dumb ones make 10-20 other city slickers facepalm and try to leave the area so as not to be associated with them.

The people you REALLY have to watch out for are the trendy ones. Those are the people who note only think everyone should conform to their lifestyle, but reality should too. The people who think cats and dogs can be 'taught' to be vegetarians, humans never evolved to eat meat, and allergies are merely psychological.

 

[salt and pepper]

my family thinks im strange because i dont read fiction. i just dont have the imagination for it. my basic reading involves blacksmithing, raising chickens, self sufficiency, and sometimes the back of the toothpaste when im in the bathroom.

enjoy all types of reading except for vampires/zombies, and mushy romance

My favorites are western, and mysteries, and Christian books. But I find myself reading the exact same things you do ( even the toothpaste ) more often, and enjoying them just as much!

 

[ChickenFox]

enjoy all types of reading except for vampires/zombies, and mushy romance

My favorites are western, and mysteries, and Christian books. But I find myself reading the exact same things you do ( even the toothpaste ) more often, and enjoying them just as much!

Lol. I'm the opposite. I love vampire, werewolves, zombies, fae and anything else supernatural. I even love that mixed with romance

I do enjoy westerns and such too though.

 

[buttercup95]

I always crack farm fresh eggs in a separate bowl before adding them together because my neighbor sometimes gives me eggs from her chickens and I put them with my chickens eggs. Anyways I once had someone ask me if I was cracking them in a separate bowl to make sure there wasn't poop inside the egg... I laughed so hard I felt bad afterwards because she was dead serious.

 

[salt and pepper]

Lol. I'm the opposite. I love vampire, werewolves, zombies, fae and anything else supernatural. I even love that mixed with romance

I do enjoy westerns and such too though.

Every person to their own I guess, haha

 

[animallover505]

My grandmother told me to always crack eggs into a different bowl to make sure they hadn't gone bad.

 

[buttercup95]

Yeah that's why I crack all of my eggs. Sometimes my neighbor will give me an egg that's a bit older so it's no good or I once got an egg that was fertilized and half grown. She lets her roos and hens mix as they please. Which is totally fine by me I just use more caution with eggs from her. lol

 

[blondiebee181]

I just get the usual, "Do the green eggs actually have green eggs inside?" LOL or "You mean they don't need a rooster?" or "I thought white eggs were factory eggs and brown ones were farm-raised?" silly people......it's actually a little saddening to see how ignorant we have become about where our food comes from. I like OP's story....I can just picture a lady with perfectly dyed hair and meticulously manicured fingernails scrunching her surgically perfected nose and batting her obviously fake eyelashes in disgust...

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Yeah that's why I crack all of my eggs. Sometimes my neighbor will give me an egg that's a bit older so it's no good or I once got an egg that was fertilized and half grown. She lets her roos and hens mix as they please. Which is totally fine by me I just use more caution with eggs from her. lol

We let our roosters hang out with our hens, but we don't let our eggs hang out in the nesting boxes! I still tell customers they might want to crack eggs into a bowl first, just in case. We have a coop rule about eggs found in unusual places ... we don't sell those.