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

[ghostwolf211]

That's the problem with the country these days; everyone uses terms differently. I mean, "eat healthy" to her means eating things that are straight out of a stainless steel, sanitized factory. But, that's not the definition I usually see in articles about health. According to her logic, "Gogurt" is healthy food.

A recently divorced friend of mine, who had just retired, ran into the same problem when he began dating. After one or two dates, the woman expected to talk on the phone every evening "just to say good night". Apparently, their definitions of dating were very different. And, we ran into the same misunderstanding about 5 years ago when someone told us he would create "change you can believe in". Nobody asked him to define "change".

Be sure to read the fine print.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That was Change we could all Hope to believe in.....

I seen what you did there and I liked it

 

[7 Biddies]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That was Change we could all Hope to believe in.....

I seen what you did there and I liked it

Thankew!

 

[KelsiNS]

Mil: are you going to eat some?
Me: not these, the roosters i hatch will be raised for meat.
Mil: you should eat those big ones.
Me: if i eat my only three big ones, ill have nothing but small breeds. Then i cant raise very good meat birds.
Mil:eat the roosters then! You can keep the girls.
Me: -_- if i eat the boys, i cant breed meat birds either.

 

[7 Biddies]

Mil: are you going to eat some?
Me: not these, the roosters i hatch will be raised for meat.
Mil: you should eat those big ones.
Me: if i eat my only three big ones, ill have nothing but small breeds. Then i cant raise very good meat birds.
Mil:eat the roosters then! You can keep the girls.
Me: -_- if i eat the boys, i cant breed meat birds either.

You: Thank you for your input. It's definitely given me something to think about. (see the spin here, by not being specific? ain't it great?)

 

[cassie]

My reference to the routine use of Antibiotics came from the book written by Harvey Ussery: "The small-scale poultry flock." I quote him in his end notes related to chapter 1. "The poultry industry feeds it's growing broilers a steady dose of antibiotics in order to make them grow faster... In 1998, the Institute of Medicine estimated that the resulting antibiotic resistance probably cost the nation as much as 5 billion dollars annually"... He also references "Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food" by Brian Walsh, written Aug 21, 2009. To further quote,"Roxarsone is the trade name for the organic arsenic compounds added to broiler feeds. The Industry emphasizes "organic" (it is inorganic forms of arsenic that are toxic) and argues that Roxarsone is biologically inert if present as residues in chickens on consumer's plate. 2 million pounds are used per year in the U.S., most of which is excreted, and broiler house litter is spread far and wide as fertilizer on croplands. Roxarsone is soluble, highly mobile in the environment, leaching to surface and groundwater systems. Many environmental factors degrade Roxarsone to inorganic forms of arsenic."


Now, I realize that one of the references is dated 1998. but I would ask you to honestly answer the question: has the poultry industry changed that much since then? Does it make sense that chickens are now being raised in a cleaner environment than they were in 1998? Broilers are being mass produced in crowded broiler houses, with each bird having space = to the size of a sheet of paper. Quoting Ussery: "The hapless broilers stand in the deepening accretion of their own manure, which accumulates at the rate of several tons per week in a typical broiler house." How can anyone imagine that these birds can survive to slaughter without being given antibiotics?

Cassie, I stand corrected re: the use of hormones. I can't verify that they are or are not used in the poultry industry. However, I can tell you that when they started using growth hormones in the dairy industry to boost milk production, there was a public outcry, and several of the dairies started advertising that their milk was hormone free. Other studies quoted at the same time stated that there were no tests to tell if the hormone had been used, so it was a matter of trusting the farmers and the dairy industry.

Low levels of antibiotics increase growth rate in chickens and other livestock for reasons unknown. However I used to live down the road from a very large commercial broiler producer. I contacted the corporate offices and they said they did not feed antibiotics to their broilers at all. I knew several people who worked there and they all said antibiotics were not used. As for hormones in meat chickens, they simply are not used either. First of all, they are illegal. Secondly the Cornish X grow so fast there is no point in using them anyway. As for BST to increase milk production, I do know several dairies that used it for a while. They stopped because they found it wasn't worth it. The income generated by the increased milk production was quickly used up by increased feed costs, having to raise more replacements, the labor costs involved in administering the drug, plus the cost of the BST itself. Some dairymen may still be using the stuff but they wouldn't if they took a sharp pencil and figured out the income it generates vs. the cost of using it. The economic benefit just isn't there. Not to mention the fact it is a public relations nightmare.

 

[lazy gardener]

thankyou.

 

[maransfan16]

i have a good story this happened the other day not so much stupid as funny. one of my friends saw the chickens out in the rain pecking around and looking awful all soaking wet and whatnot and their jaw dropped and they said "i can't believe you make your chickens go out in the rain i keep mine in the coop when it's like this" after i got done laughing at the look of dibelief on his face i just said " i don't make them do anything all i do is open the door if they choose to go out when it's pouring rain or spitting snow or even if there is a dang tornado in the next neighborhood then thats what their going to do" 'it's not like i walk into the coop every morning and scream at them and tell them to go scratch in the leaves and horse crap and to lay me eggs then shove them out the door i'm not bending their wing in any way"

 

[annagarret]

I was on the phone with a new friend and happened to say"hold on a moment i have to get my chicken off the porch". She then asked me if i was a Beverly hillbilly and laughed.....gr rrr. City people don't get it

 

[Araucana16]

I was on the phone with a new friend and happened to say"hold on a moment i have to get my chicken off the porch". She then asked me if i was a Beverly hillbilly and laughed.....gr rrr. City people don't get it

I remember how my grandmother found out we had chickens.
My mom was on the phone with her... and said. "Hold on, have to go, the boys are throwing the chickens."

You can imagine her reaction to that.

 

[Peep_Show]

i have a good story this happened the other day not so much stupid as funny. one of my friends saw the chickens out in the rain pecking around and looking awful all soaking wet and whatnot and their jaw dropped and they said "i can't believe you make your chickens go out in the rain i keep mine in the coop when it's like this" after i got done laughing at the look of dibelief on his face i just said " i don't make them do anything all i do is open the door if they choose to go out when it's pouring rain or spitting snow or even if there is a dang tornado in the next neighborhood then thats what their going to do" 'it's not like i walk into the coop every morning and scream at them and tell them to go scratch in the leaves and horse crap and to lay me eggs then shove them out the door i'm not bending their wing in any way"

Just think.... If chickens had the Internet they'd never get outside!