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

[7 Biddies]

I'd love a wood cookstove but no room in my tiny house. I have cooked on my wood stove during power outages. I think this winter when it's cold enough for a constant fire, I'll make soup regularly on it.

Well, you've got the fire going anyway, so why not? Sounds like a smart idea, to me.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

My food should not be more extensively traveled than I am!!

You got that right!!

About 5 years ago...when I was visiting my sister in a major metropolitan city..(where we both grew up in), we walked by a high end store. The young lady was pushing an "alleged" organic cosmetic product. She said...it comes from Japan. Uhmmmm.... I said to her...."Doesn't the mere fact of using fossil fuels to bring a product from across the ocean neutralize the point of said product being organic?????"

Organic to me is.....local, non-Monsanto, non-GMO, traveled as small of a carbon foot print as possible. JMHO

 

[7 Biddies]

if I ever do get a big old kitchen stove its going to go in living room, only chimney access. darn kitchen not bid enough for one

My house didn't have room for a chimney *anywhere*. Going against the builder's original plans (I found the house mid-construction), I wanted a wood stove in the living room for extra heat, and in case of long-term power outages in the winter. So, I ended up with a ventless gas stove. It's opposite the staircase in the living room, and the heat soars right up the stairs, making everything toasty in freezing weather. The builder also put in a heat pump, which a HVAC man told me needed a heat source "to pump". He told me getting the gas stove was the smartest thing I ever did. So, with a gas stove in the kitchen, one in the living room, and a fire pit outdoors, I'm good to go!!

 

[7 Biddies]

The house I grew up in was over 100 years old and had three woodstoves.. 2 of the Franklin stoves (one in the kitchen and one in the front room) and a pot belly stove.. it was my job to sleep on the front room floor and keep the Franklin stove in there going all night.. then I had to get the one in the kitchen started before my mom got up so she would be able to fix breakfast.. the pot belly stove was in the room where my sisters slept.. so if it died in the middle of the night they would wake up to a cold room.. There were heat registers in the ceiling to carry heat to the upstairs bedrooms.. I started on "wood stove" duty when I was 3 years old.. lol.. yeah.. got I an early start with my wood heating education!

After moving out on my own every place where i lived had a wood stove of some sort.. When I was finally able to buy my first home it only had a woodstove for heat.. that was in Delaware and the place had no insulation.. so stocking the woodstove before bed and checking on it in the middle of the night was something I had to do unless I wanted frozen water pipes.. lived there for 13 years and through several power outages and snow storms..

Now the home I have has a woodstove that we use during the coldest months.. lol..luckily here in Texas those are far and few between... but during my lifetime I have had a wood stove of some sort for at least 50 years of my life.. I don't think I would want to live some place without one! Many of my grandmothers and great grandmothers recipes call for cooking on a woodstove and give the directions for everything from baking cakes and breads to roasts.. 

Reminds me of my dad who graduated from Keene State Teachers' College in Keene, NH, back in the early 1930's. Since he graduated from high school at 16, and teachers' college was 3 years, he began teaching at 19 years of age, in upstate NH. It was a 2 room schoolhouse with a wood stove. He had to get up early every morning, and get the stove going to heat up the schoolhouse before the children arrived. He didn't stay in the teaching field for long.

 

[QueenofKings]

Ah, the benefit of owning your house!
Currently, dear friends, I am that run down college student sleeping on a cot and using a microwave to cook. Added benefits: a bicycle to get you where ever you please! (This is the room I rent btw, now the darling place I call home in SD.)

Anyway, the 'rents have assured me that they are planning to buy more land and build a house in the rural part of SD. The current makeup of our house, we have two gas stoves, two firepits. And of course, darn technology, two broken down ovens. They are planning to renovate however, so hopefully, the new ovens will be in before thanksgiving. If not, we will be having another adventure like last year, where we cooked the turkey outside on the spit. I am also in the middle of convincing my parents to turn to farming, that way we won't have to go to the grocery store as often.

Nearly there, now if only they will let me raise turkeys and rabbits as well as chickens...

 

[write2caroline]

I have two comments. One, I have personally known several people who had academic degrees out the gazoo and who still didn't have one iota of common sense. One of the most ignorant guys I ever met, bar none, was an orthopedic surgeon. It is a mystery to me how that man ever made it into medical school, let alone graduate. As for your brother-in-law who thinks your home produced eggs are unsanitary because they come out of a chicken's butt, if you are in a puckish mood, you might point out to him that many creatures have dual purpose organs. He has one and he uses it every day. His, um, male organ has more than one purpose. And just for fun, ask him please, just where it is he thinks store eggs come from and how they are produced. The answer might prove interesting.

Actually having a degree is not indicative of being intelligent. I have a lovely child hood friend who has a mind of a 7 year old due to brain damage at birth. She actually earned a BA in fine art. It took her nearly 10 years to do it but she persevered and had a lot of gumption. She did it for her Dad, and he got to see her walk before he passed away. Not that Abby would ever run a company or whatever. A degree represents a willingness to put up with a lot of hoop jumping. Life has taught me more than I have learned in any classroom. I remember most the lessons I failed over the ones I got right.

There are epidemic levels of stupidity abounding. So I will keep counting backwards and smiling. Educating those I can and trying to be gracious to those who believe chickens have butts and make those crazy comments.

Caroline

 

[alibraun]

I wish I could add on to cabin for a wood burning cook stove, issues are the only way I could expand would b towards my coop n run!!! can't really knock out walls well in one of these, we limited on ground space most my ground tied up in driveway n barn.sigh

 

[Araucana16]

This has nothing to do with chickens, but I too am really worried about what'll happen to society when I'm grown up.

Currently, I'm a high school student, and I am at a loss for what's happening around me. In my Early Civ. class (which is required for everyone my grade and doesn't come in honors so I'm stuck with the "lets do nothings"

), we are doing group projects. They are due in two days, I've been done for a week and my partners haven't even viewed the document

In my Spanish HONORS class, the person beside me doesn't know how to conjugate in the present tense. Doesn't really get easier than that, and really only 1/3 of the class does our homework - which is one workbook page that is literally 5 minutes to do (that is, if you pay attention, which, albeit, they don't - they being the general population of the school). In general, everyone seems to just not care about the future... I ran into a freshman the other day with a water bottle full of vodka. Needless to say, he was reported. I'm in marching band and we lost this year because our whole drum line shot themselves up with crack.

And thats just what's happening with kids these days! As my best friend (probably one of the only sane people I'm aware of) put it today after one of my other friends set up a group work time for her project and no one else showed up - "The next generation, this world's future. Yeah, that's gonna go well." No one seems to understand that if, say, our government crumbles (fairly likely) or there is some sort of other disaster (again, fairly likely) and supermarkets close, they won't be magically okay. It's people like you guys (and sadly not me since chickens are probably as far as my homesteading will go for the next decade while school is my whole life) that will actually survive something like that. In short, I'm just waiting for it all to fall down...

As a species we rely upon what we have grown up knowing - that technology and society will be a cushion for you - but if we don't learn enough about what we don't want to learn that won't be true anymore. Unfortunately I fear I've been born at exactly the wrong time.

 

[sepaditty1]

Read the book "77 Days in September." It changed my whole outlook.

 

[Noobiechickluv]

This has nothing to do with chickens, but I too am really worried about what'll happen to society when I'm grown up.

I grew up in the 60's and 70's. We had the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, race riots, women's rights, Watergate..... times were turbulent. The kids around me were no different than the kids around you, lazy and uncaring. Drug use was common place. I felt a lot like you do.

In 20 years you will be amazed at the kids you thought would end up in jail, go on to successful, meaningful lives. You maybe very thoughtful at 16, but most kids simply have not progressed that much at your age.Trust me, your outlook will change in a few years when you go on to college.