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

[loveourbirds]

To Darkangeal...I have seen the claim that it is illegal in Ohio for a man to speak to a woman before she speaks to him...There are many outdated and curious laws and constitutional provisions but can you document this ?...I can't seem to locate any such state statute...Maybe a local ordinance or wider provision from long ago?...Does "loveourbirds know?".......Thanks and Take Care..

it could just be city law, im not sure; i remember talking about it in high school history and that's about it. i do know this city had/has a lot of weird laws. we were one of the strictest "sundown towns" for years. - even into the 1980's. if memory serves me correctly (and its hazy) the law had to do with a prominent business man's daughter getting pregnant by a "running" slave. i dont remember the law referring to any race or color though, so i might be wrong. - that was 20 years ago, sometimes i find it hard to remember yesterday

. i will look in some of "Blaine Beekman's" books and see if i can find anything about it. he was the history teacher who's class we talked about it, and he is a local author/historian.

 

[Irishhenman]

I got this one off a visitor yesterday
Man: Are they chickens or roosters?
Me: Chickens
Mans Daughter: that big one has to be a rooster
Me: it is a rooster
Man: but you said they were all chickens
Me: they are all chickens
Man: but you just said that one was a rooster
Me: Yeah so?
Man: You shouldn't lie you know
Me: but I haven't lied
Man: Yes you have, you just told me they are all chickens when one of them is a rooster
Me: but they are all chickens and he is a rooster
Man: Gives me a funny look and continues on in the same conversation and still not realising his mistake.

He hasn't ever heard of the word hen or pullet

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

I got this one off a visitor yesterday
Man: Are they chickens or roosters?
Me: Chickens
Mans Daughter: that big one has to be a rooster
Me: it is a rooster
Man: but you said they were all chickens
Me: they are all chickens
Man: but you just said that one was a rooster
Me: Yeah so?
Man: You shouldn't lie you know
Me: but I haven't lied
Man: Yes you have, you just told me they are all chickens when one of them is a rooster
Me: but they are all chickens and he is a rooster
Man: Gives me a funny look and continues on in the same conversation and still not realising his mistake.

He hasn't ever heard of the word hen or pullet

Actually, a lot of people use the term chicken for 'hen', and rooster for, well, rooster. Kinda like a female goose is a goose, but the species is also goose, so you call females of the species 'goose', and males gander, so when you refer to having geese and you say their all girls and 1 gander, they can (technically) say that the gander isn't a goose, and the rest are geese.
It's a common thing that has been applied to chickens, I usually just correct them (well, that's a rooster and the rest are 'hens' - meaning their girls, but they are all chickens because that's what you call the species) and go about.

 

[settingdusk]

Is this real chicken?
No, its fake chicken from my backyard.

 

[RachaelS]

I come here to laugh about silly chicken things

, let's get some good ones going again!

A co-worker recently went to Cozumel with her Boyfriend. She said they were eating lunch and a rooster flew up on a table next to them and crowed. She said the told the rooster, "you must be a little slow, morning is already over." She honestly did not know that they crow at all times of the day and thought there was something wrong with this boy

I told her I wish mine only crowed in the morning, she got a good laugh at herself.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Two separate incidents of the same thing. I was speaking to my reproductive doctor and my mom (who grew up on a farm) separately weeks apart. Neither could believe I didn't need a rooster at first.

I had to explain to the reproductive doctor that birds, too, ovulate with or without men, and also that chickens lay a certain number of eggs and then are done, just like humans with menopause, and because we breed them to lay faster the stop laying faster. She was shocked that many hens stop laying in 3 years and shook her head at her own stupidity.

My mom said they had the breed "pullet" chickens as a kid, and always had a rooster, and was a little surprised when my hens started laying for me without one!

A friend of mine said she thought white eggs were bleached... Because everyone ELSE thought brown eggs were healthier so she assumed white eggs must be bleached or something. When I told her white eggs were just white she was like "Why do people think they're healthier then!?". Well because they, too, think white eggs are bleached. Duh!

Well, they all know better now!

 

[Kiniska]

Excellent!

 

[cassie]

Two separate incidents of the same thing. I was speaking to my reproductive doctor and my mom (who grew up on a farm) separately weeks apart. Neither could believe I didn't need a rooster at first.

I had to explain to the reproductive doctor that birds, too, ovulate with or without men, and also that chickens lay a certain number of eggs and then are done, just like humans with menopause, and because we breed them to lay faster the stop laying faster. She was shocked that many hens stop laying in 3 years and shook her head at her own stupidity.

My mom said they had the breed "pullet" chickens as a kid, and always had a rooster, and was a little surprised when my hens started laying for me without one!

A friend of mine said she thought white eggs were bleached... Because everyone ELSE thought brown eggs were healthier so she assumed white eggs must be bleached or something. When I told her white eggs were just white she was like "Why do people think they're healthier then!?". Well because they, too, think white eggs are bleached. Duh!

Well, they all know better now!

Give your friend a brown egg and ask her to bleach it. At least she was willing to listen. A lot of people aren't. But it might be fun to try to bleach a brown egg white anyway.

 

[Kiniska]

Here is a kind of long story. It is funny in the end, promise.

So my husband and I are friends with another couple that are 100% urbanites. By this I mean their feet never touch anything but carpet and concrete. They are business professionals and highly intelligent/ educated accept...

Here is the story.

The wife had been begging me for months for some of our roaster hens when they were ready for slaughter. Upon finding this out the husband forbade her. Saying he, "Would never eat something someone had raised at their house. It is just cruel." First, I have a farm. I live there. It is 34 acres and it is a hobby farm. To give a little more back ground the husband has been to our house and had dinner multiple times. He has eaten fish, chicken, and goat that I have raised. Once, with a mouth full of my juicy fried chicken, he began proselytizing about how wrong it is to raise and kill your own meat. We had a quarrel about that believe me. If my husband had not restrained me I would have snatched that chicken right out of his flapping maw. He has also been known to go on about how he is a vegetarian and how it is horrid and cruel to eat animals only a few hours after eating a burger himself. (I have absolutely no problem with vegetarians even if they are strongly opinionated. My issue is with hypocrites.) I have since decided he is insane. His wife on the other hand, she is the only reason I put up with the insane one, is fairly realistic. She even wanted to help during the slaughter process if I was willing to sell her a few of the hens. I was shocked at her offer to help and wasn't really sure she would be able to stomach it.

So, I call the wife to let her know when we would be cleaning up the chickens. She comes out and helps. After everything is processed and we start packing it up she tells me to wait on packing her meat. She goes out to her car and brings back a bunch of Walmart grocery bags, some cling wrap and some of those funny foam trays. She then begins to pack everything up just like they do at the grocery. She then tells me, " I just don't want to hear the idiot complain while we are eating. I told him I went shopping and wanted to stock the freezer." Wow, personally I think a divorce would be easier. She told me she plans to tell him after all the meat has been consumed. I don't know if his reaction will be funny or not.

 

[tsuninight]

I have been asked on 4 different occasions how much time I spend styling my chickens hair.

When I told them none, my Polish just looks like that I usually get a confused, really?! One lady looked at me looked back at the picture and said she needed feathers instead of hair then. I thought it was funny.