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

[babyfoot]

time travel over for the day, was fun catching up

 

[member 142084]

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.

LOL you too! Well I didn't get the contractor question but the 'fun' comment. I am honest and express my distain of how much of a pain it was to build mine. Hillside so I had to dig throug rock hard clay to put the pierblocks in for a level floor.. yeah I hat to kill my tiller about 1 hour each hole -_- at 12 holes.. and then getting them actually level. That was just the blocks! NO not fun at all. especially with a 2, 5, & 6 year old.

 

[member 142084]

Yes working with you hands and skills such as making things and fixing thinks are becoming lost arts.. it is sad.. very sad.... What happened to young men or women apprenticing under others... masters... to learn things such as wood working, building, sewing.. art and so on.. oh yeah I remember it was the college system requirement and the idea to teach everything digitally. I love the smell of books.. no kindle in my house thanks... and I am teaching my kids penmanship.... I hope they get a chance to use it!

 

[alibraun]

I get grief for my birds, quilting,crocheting, reading kindle(ran out of room to store books)and my supply of old farm tools I have round the cabin. Dad taught me to sew on a treadle at 14 n yes I have one now too, power outages suck.

 

[7 Biddies]

I've observed that people in general have a really poor sense of just how much it takes to accomplish things... And I don't just mean livestock, but everything.  People have this perception that things like food, handicrafts, furniture, artwork, etc. are all conjured up by a magical Stuff Fairy that makes sure there is always the perfect number of chickens in the supermarket and shirts on the clothes racks.

I do what I can to help educated folks, and it really is shocking to them to realize that one or two chickens isn't going to give you more than one or two eggs a day, or that, yeah, artwork has to actually be CREATED by someone--it doesn't just exist on its own.

I've just edited your post to read more correctly. Hope you don't mind. See below:

I've observed that people in general have really no sense.

 

[MaddiesMum]

When someone first initially saw them they said: "Roosters!.....AND CHICKENS!!" as though roosters were somehow different from chickens lol!

 

[7 Biddies]

I design merchandise and sell it through a 3rd party to earn royalties.  I design what I want when I want.  I tried doing custom artwork for a while, but people want way too much for what they're willing to pay me, and I had to back off.  If I was better at saying "no" it wouldn't be so bad, but I end up putting in a whole day on a $15 piece, and I can't live on that.

Folks who tell me 40 is too many need to visit a commercial chicken farm sometime.  If that doesn't put them off eating eggs and chicken for life, they're welcome to buy some from me instead!

I live alone with 8 chickens and 4 cats. While that's waaaay too many cats, it's not too many chickens. Not even close. Right now, they're moulting, and only 2 are laying. Yesterday, I got 0 eggs, but they *all* still ate the same amount of expensive organic feed!! When they're all laying, I sell some eggs to offset the feed cost, but it doesn't amount to much. So, 40 chickens for a family of 5 is too many?? Let's see .... my 8 (barely enough) chickens times 5 people = 40 chickens. Nope. Doesn't sound like too many to me.

I was at a cookout yesterday and a lady who knows (or, has been told repeatedly) that I grow much of my own food for health reasons asked how much money I was saving on eggs (and food). I almost died laughing!! SAVE? Oy. I wish. I then explained for the umpteenth time that I have my own chickens for the quality of the eggs, not the cost. But, she's all about money, so I guess it never registered. People are so egocentric* that they just assume others feel/believe/behave just as they do.

*Egocintric/ecocentrism = refers to a personality trait where one has an inability to see a situation from another person's point of view. This is a normal part of a child's development that they are *supposed* to outgrow. Unfortunately, too many don't. According to Piaget, the egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear and feel exactly the same as the child does. Hmmm. Sound familiar among the silly verbal exchanges discussed on this board?

 

[7 Biddies]

Yes working with you hands and skills such as making things and fixing thinks are becoming lost arts.. it is sad.. very sad.... What happened to young men or women apprenticing under others... masters... to learn things such as wood working, building, sewing.. art and so on.. oh yeah I remember it was the college system requirement and the idea to teach everything digitally.  I love the smell of books.. no kindle in my house thanks... and I am teaching my kids penmanship.... I hope they get a chance to use it!

When my house was being built, I said that I wanted a gas stove, when they had planned on electric. The builder, the husband of a teacher I work with, said, "You're showing your age by wanting gas". I replied, "No. I'm just showing my level of expertise in the kitchen. Gas is to a cook, as stick shift is to a driver." That shut him up ... especially, since they eat out all the time b/c he doesn't like waiting for his wife to cook dinner. (No lie)

Both of my grown children (daughter *AND* son) are good cooks who eschew processed foods. My son, especially, loves the idea of self-sufficiency. Unfortunately, he did not have a father who could teach him how to wield a hammer, and doesn't really have the patience for such things. I'm hoping that, with time, he'll learn. My daughter doesn't have needlework skills (sewing, knitting, crocheting) like her mother, either. I really wonder what's going to happen to society in the future.

 

[settingdusk]

After buying a large amount of all female barred rock, we invited over some people to buy up extras. We were told by a lady that just by picking them up and flipping them over she could tell they were all roosters. Despite the fact that they were guaranteed pullets.

 

[Kiniska]

When my house was being built, I said that I wanted a gas stove, when they had planned on electric. The builder, the husband of a teacher I work with, said, "You're showing your age by wanting gas". I replied, "No. I'm just showing my level of expertise in the kitchen. Gas is to a cook, as stick shift is to a driver." That shut him up ... especially, since they eat out all the time b/c he doesn't like waiting for his wife to cook dinner. (No lie)

Both of my grown children (daughter *AND* son) are good cooks who reject processed foods. My son, especially, loves the idea of self-sufficiency. Unfortunately, he did not have a father who could teach him how to wield a hammer, and doesn't really have the patience for such things. I'm hoping that, with time, he'll learn. My daughter doesn't have needlework skills (sewing, knitting, crocheting) like her mother, either. I really wonder what's going to happen in the future.

If my husband is any indication your son will be just fine. My husband grew up on a farm but his mother would not allow his father to teach him anything about the tools or machinery. He learned everything he now knows about those things while we were building the house. It was a painful process, but now he can wield a hammer with the rest of them and he even knows a few things his dad doesn't. Like for instance a "skill saw" is a name brand. It is actually a radial hand or table saw. Kinda like a Xerox is a name brand and what it actually is is a copy machine.