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

[salt and pepper]

Not chicken, but when I tell people my husband and I built our house from the ground up I get. "What contractor did you use" or "Isn't it so stressful organizing and dealing with contractors."
It takes a while to get them to understand we built it. As in wielding hammers, saws, nails, etc... ourselves. Then I get the " That must have been fun" NO, it wasn't fun. It was rewarding, not fun.

bahahaha, Building.... FUN?? Have these people ever had to actually wield a hammer? It is NOT fun ( well... maybe for the first week or two) But defiantly rewarding!

 

[Kiniska]

We were using air hammers, it still wasn't fun. Our shed wasn't fun either. Glad we have the house and the shed.
I personally think people don't know how to wipe their nether regions any more. They can't sew, can't use tools, have no idea where their food comes from. Sites like this are all that holds my hope for humanity up. Seeing there really are people who are willing to learn.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I like to fuss- my husband calls it fussing, but if I waited for him to build what I wanted or needed.... hmmm...

 

[Peep_Show]

We were using air hammers, it still wasn't fun. Our shed wasn't fun either.

Glad we have the house and the shed.
I personally think people don't know how to wipe their nether regions any more. They can't sew, can't use tools, have no idea where their food comes from. Sites like this are all that holds my hope for humanity up. Seeing there really are people who are willing to learn.

Ain't that the truth! I am convinced that if the magnetic field ever disintegrates and there's no electricity or batteries that nearly everyone will starve because they haven't a clue on how to raise a tomato or do even the simplest of tasks..... And we'll all probably really smell badly EXCEPT those that know how to make soap and do laundry.
They had a documentary -- a show in England, I believe -- where they took a bunch of 18-24 y.o. indulged computer-only-literate know-it-alls and had them do things like, oh, change a tire, do laundry, boil an egg and make toast WITHOUT looking on their iPads on how to do it first. Not one of them would survive in the real world. It was hilarious and extremely saddening at the same time.

 

[salt and pepper]

We were using air hammers, it still wasn't fun. Our shed wasn't fun either.

Glad we have the house and the shed.
I personally think people don't know how to wipe their nether regions any more. They can't sew, can't use tools, have no idea where their food comes from. Sites like this are all that holds my hope for humanity up. Seeing there really are people who are willing to learn.

People of today are pretty sad...What I find sad is when people haven't even HEARD of some tools... like, whats the difference from a skill saw, and a jig saw?

I think EVERY body should know how to use tools, even if they aren't power tools. As for food, most people think that my eating habits are strange, since I refuse to eat fast/and overly-processed food, and then get nauseous when I tell the, why! Ignorance is bliss.... then more people should be happy, I was once told that they weren't happy because of people like me telling them things about their food that they didn't want to know. I'm not the best sewer but most haven't even TOUCHED a sewing machine... It's sad.... just sad...

 

[babyfoot]

Quote: indeed LOL, Made me really laugh, I envisaged her wings hav
ing a blow up valve on them. The problem I have at the moment is the wild kangaroos, if the sun (or thethemselves) has emptied their water bowl, they either try to drink from the birdbath and trample my ferns and flowers or they try to get te water from the paddle pool, I am scared that their big toe nails will puncture my pool, I can't afford a real pool, this is all I have.

 

[babyfoot]

Quote: PLease don't give the government any ideas

 

[babyfoot]

Do the green eggs have green yolks?
You can't eat the eggs if you have a rooster.

When I announced at my workplace I was leaving to be a homemaker and "homesteading" with chickens, I received comments such as "I would love to sit at home all day and watch TV." Or "I could never convince my husband to let me not work." Oh, people.

Not work? NOT WORK!!!!!! Hahahahahahahahahaha, no-one except ourselves understands just how much work IS involved.

 

[babyfoot]

Quote: NOOOOOOOOOOOO! That song is stuck in my head now

 

[babyfoot]

I just remembered another one I heard, from someone who supposedly has had chickens before.
"You CAN'T have more than one rooster, or they'll fight to the death!"
If that's the case, my nine roos must be terrible fighters.

I only have two, they do squabble but only cos one is higher ranking. They manage to live fairly peaceably but yeah... I have had folks tell me it's impossible. I did have a pair that fouhgt and one ended up too far gone to live but I think it was because he'd been the sole Rooster for years and then we decided to keep one of the male chicks. No way was he going to share his ladies to some young upstart. These two are used to sharing