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

[7 Biddies]

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.

Hahahaha. I told a friend I was looking for an old sewing machine, and he found me a treadle one in perfect working condition. Just needed a new belt, some cleaning up, and refinishing of the wood veneer that had peeled off. Found it at the dump! Now it sits perfectly restored in my house as a gorgeous antique that I also use (rarely) to sew on. (If I can't use it, I don't want it sitting around just gathering dust. Yankee practicality.) Fortunately, I learned to use one as a kid ... my grandmother and friend's mother had them.

When my son was in Cub Scouts, I brought his uniform shirt to work to sew the patches on during lunch break. A young "princess type" asked what I was doing. When I told her, she acted like I had just felled a tree to build my own log cabin in the wilderness. Then, she asked, "Isn't there someone you can hire to do that for you?" I answered that there probably was, but I wanted to do it myself, as an expression of how much I valued my little boy. Twenty years later, when her own boys were in Cub Scouts, she said all the patches were iron on, now. I was tempted to ask if she "hired someone to do that for her". We won't get into her cooking skills, which amount to nothing more than "heating". The irony in all this is that she acts like her boys are "The Second Coming", and no expense is to be spared. She claims they are the most important things in her life and is actually sad when summer is over and they have to go back to school. But, she buys only the cheapest food (while they wear Izod and Lauren), produced with chemicals additives, etc. When challenged, she said, "Oh. I give them yogurt and other healthy stuff". Found out that "yogurt" was Gogurt, which had to be explained to me, and "healthy stuff" was apple slices cored and peeled, dipped in sugar, and served on a plate while they played video games. They didn't even finish one whole apple, together. So, I asked, "You won't put cheap clothing on your back, so why do you put the cheapest food in your body?" She said, "Gee. I never thought of it that way", then continued on with her current lifestyle.

Next, I'm gonna ask, "If your boys are so special to you, why are you trying to give them cancer?"

 

[7 Biddies]

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.

Thanks for the encouragement. I certainly hope you're right.

 

[fosterson]

Well, I'm only a Gen-Xer, but I can shear a sheep, clean the wool, card it, spin it, and make a blanket, sweater, hat or socks out of it. Adding chickens to my list of 'pioneer' skills just goes with my skills of raising potatoes, tomatoes, okra, onion, squash, and corn. I can also hunt, butcher a carcass, and graft fruit trees. If the worst happened, I am pretty sure my skills would be in high demand. I just LIKE electricity and indoor plumbing

 

[Kiniska]

7 biddies, it is pretty obvious that stupid goes beyond not understanding chickens. Your breath and time are probably wasted on that air head.

I have a treadle as well. Don't you just love it?

 

[7 Biddies]

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.

The world is overrun with "experts"!!

 

[Kiniska]

Well, I'm only a Gen-Xer, but I can shear a sheep, clean the wool, card it, spin it, and make a blanket, sweater, hat or socks out of it. Adding chickens to my list of 'pioneer' skills just goes with my skills of raising potatoes, tomatoes, okra, onion, squash, and corn. I can also hunt, butcher a carcass, and graft fruit trees. If the worst happened, I am pretty sure my skills would be in high demand. I just LIKE electricity and indoor plumbing

Right there with you. I love my amenities, just want to know how to deal if they aren't available. GenX rocks!

 

[Peep_Show]

Yes, we need more folks that KNOW how to do things, not just have HEARD how things are done if they've heard anything at all.... (Look up and get your head out of that iPhone!)


I always laughed that Mom was trying to create a Stepford Daughter with all the classes/courses/seminars/outings she sent me to, but I thank her now that she had the good sense to get me educated on the things she knew she couldn't teach or teach well.

My younger sister, on the other hand, skated in the tutoring-of-anything-useful department and ergo her kids know nothing on how to do anything as they haven't been taught a whit. I have begged my sister to please teach them the basics (doing laundry, basic cleaning, how to cook a couple of meals, how to drive...just anything) so that, at the very least, when her kids get married their spouses won't hate her. It's all falling on deaf ears.... I don't get it. Oh, well... I will enjoy (literally) the fruits of my labor as my orchard and garden are plentiful and take great satisfaction in self-sufficiency.

I hatched my sister a flock of chickens for her birthday and gave her 5 sex-link pullets. Her husband stated they only needed three, but had he only kept three they would now have one because of attrition (chickens + knot holes + dogs = family nightmares and less chickens)

Niece: "OMG! They really do run around with their heads cut off. I thought that was just an old wives' tale."

 

[CGinJCMO]

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.

You and I sound like we have hobbies in common (I don't quilt but do sew). If it wasn't for going away to scrapbooking crops, I'd never get time for any of my hobbies, however. Someday when I'm retired (20+ years from now) I hope to be able to get back into my sewing, crocheting and reading.

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When my son was in Cub Scouts, I brought his uniform shirt to work to sew the patches on during lunch break. A young "princess type" asked what I was doing. When I told her, she acted like I had just felled a tree to build my own log cabin in the wilderness. Then, she asked, "Isn't there someone you can hire to do that for you?" I answered that there probably was, but I wanted to do it myself, as an expression of how much I valued my little boy. Twenty years later, when her own boys were in Cub Scouts, she said all the patches were iron on, now. I was tempted to ask if she "hired someone to do that for her".

That iron -on stuff doesn't hold up and then you end up having to sew it on anyway but now you are having to sew through the sticky stuff and it gums up your needle. Best way to sew it on is to use the clear nylon thread so you don't have to worry about matching the patch and you can do multiple patches without spending time changing the needle thread color.

And, I have around 30 chickens and 4 cats, plus one more indoor/outdoor cat.

CG

 

[7 Biddies]

7 biddies, it is pretty obvious that stupid goes beyond not understanding chickens. Your breath and time are probably wasted on that air head.

Correctemento!!

I just LIKE electricity and indoor plumbing

Ditto that. But, I'm prepared with a gas stove, outdoor firepit with grate for cooking, water purifier, oil lamps, veggie garden, fruit trees, berries, chickens, and lots of home canned food and the skills to cook them all. We've been known to be without power for 2 weeks after a severe snow/ice storm up here, and within the last 20 years, too. However, when I asked "you-know-who" what she'd do if she ever found herself without electricity, etc., she said she was coming to my house!! Not if my shotgun is loaded! Besides, she and those picky boys of hers would die of starvation up here. No Kraft mac 'n cheese (oranged powdered stuff), no fast food, and no sodas/snacks. Having to live on fresh food would kill them!! hahahahahaha

This is the same person who just bought a townhouse and spent $20,000 replacing her hardwood floors with "finished on site" ones and "the perfect" granite countertops. I wonder if they'll improve her cooking?

 

[PrairieChickens]

I crochet (stuffed animals, hats, fingerless gloves, blankets, and various other items I need), draw, do photography, papercrafts (Among other things, I make packaging for my handicrafts), polymer clay items (novelty jewelry, figurines, and details for my stuffed animals.)

I also write, grow my own veggies and herbs, and of course, keep chickens. I have several other hobbies, but they are too numerous to mention.

When I described my activities to a new acquaintance, he asked in shock, "Is there anything you DON'T do?" I answered without hesitation, "Make furniture!"

I try to keep a 24/7 webcam going in my craft room so people can see what I'm up to, and my activities have inspired quite a few people--locally and around the world--to pick up hobbies like sewing, knitting, crochet, etc. themselves. I'm even teaching crochet classes to grade-school kids now after school. It's pretty exciting.