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

[Tyaloria]

"Why would you want to have chickens? How are you ever going to afford to feed them."

Than there are those people who think yard raised chickens are more diseased somehow. And that the box raised, no beak variety lay healthier, "safe" eggs. To those people, I would say, go buy your Frankenstein eggs. Stupid sheep.

Chicken power!

just like my husbands reaction when the kids and I got our first chickens

 

[tandykins]

The issue I have with it is that I don't want to pay for some poor person's cancer treatment. I want to pay only for me. If I get sick with no money? Well, that's my problem, not the rest of the country's.

Also, in the event that you need some special type of treatment, they may not pay for it, or it may not be available at all under the general health care system.

It's more of a personal preference on how you wish to pay for your medical bills. I prefer self-payed systems over socialism, but that's my preference.

Anyways, back to chickens.....

That's cool. I -do- want to pay for some poor person's cancer treatment. They can't afford it themselves and I'm happy to help with that as part of their greater community. Because public health is everyone's problem.

 

[tandykins]

Look! Cute chicks!

Gauh! So many lovely babies!!! <3

 

[Peep_Show]

It's a funny occurrence that the husbands of my gal pals say "Why do we need chickens?" and then spend hours masterminding the coop design and constructions. Then they're the ones that pick out the chicks...only to be followed by them spending hours upon hours enjoying the chickens. Is "coop widow" a term yet?

 

[Aunt ruth]

It's a funny occurrence that the husbands of my gal pals say "Why do we need chickens?" and then spend hours masterminding the coop design and constructions.  Then they're the ones that pick out the chicks...only to be followed by them spending hours upon hours enjoying the chickens.   Is "coop widow" a term yet?

Haha so true! My dad went way overboard building our coop. He still doesn't really care about the chickens though. They are all afraid of him.

 

[RachaelS]

My boss asked me the other day "What breed of chicken lays a double yolk?", I of course did not make fun of her and let her know that any breed can but it is not desirable, just confused on where that idea will come from.

Growing up we had a "community" fish tank and there was a breed that I think we called "Sword tail", they were orange and the males had a longer black tail fin, like a sword. If the male died a female would change to become a male. This is a very common breed of fish, so since most kids are more likely to grow up with a fish tank not livestock, I can see them thinking a hen may change to a rooster. Still funny though, I would not make the jump to apply reptile and fish biology to avian, but hey, Chickens are dinosaurs so they are a reptile right

I mean all the people my age grew up with Jurassic Park.

Calling myself out here, I was very shocked when I collected my first egg and it was warm

. I have to admit it made me uneasy to my stomach. In all my 3+ decades I ONLY had eggs that were cold. Got over it pretty quick, now I don't even put my eggs in the fridge, but just saying. Not sure what I was thinking, guess I just really never thought about it

 

[winteree]

Look! Cute chicks!

sooo cute what are the chicks and is their ma a RIR, new hapshire, or red star or it is some lovely brown breed i don't know?

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

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sooo cute what are the chicks and is their ma a RIR, new hapshire, or red star or it is some lovely brown breed i don't know?

They are mutts, and so is the hen. We have several breeds of hatchery birds running together. This hen came out of the bushes the other day with 17 chicks. It was a complete surprise. They are just getting to the more awkward stage, but are still absolute adorable.

We do have RIR hens in the flock ... the hatchery version.

Photo showing more of the chicks ...

 

[subhanalah]

My boss asked me the other day "What breed of chicken lays a double yolk?", I of course did not make fun of her and let her know that any breed can but it is not desirable, just confused on where that idea will come from.

Growing up we had a "community" fish tank and there was a breed that I think we called "Sword tail", they were orange and the males had a longer black tail fin, like a sword.  If the male died a female would change to become a male.  This is a very common breed of fish, so since most kids are more likely to grow up with a fish tank not livestock, I can see them thinking a hen may change to a rooster.  Still funny though, I would not make the jump to apply reptile and fish biology to avian, but hey, Chickens are dinosaurs so they are a reptile right I mean all the people my age grew up with Jurassic Park.

Calling myself out here, I was very shocked when I collected my first egg and it was warm .  I have to admit it made me uneasy to my stomach.  In all my 3+ decades I ONLY had eggs that were cold.  Got over it pretty quick, now I don't even put my eggs in the fridge, but just saying. Not sure what I was thinking, guess I just really never thought about it

not exactly reptiles. Dinosaurs and birds are warm blooded like mammals. Reptiles are cold blooded like most fish. (Some sharks can produce their own heat to sustain themselves at colder ocean temperatures.)

 

[subhanalah]

They are mutts, and so is the hen. We have several breeds of hatchery birds running together. This hen came out of the bushes the other day with 17 chicks. It was a complete surprise. They are just getting to the more awkward stage, but are still absolute adorable.

We do have RIR hens in the flock ... the hatchery version.

Photo showing more of the chicks ...

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what a happy surprise! I LOVE sewing pics of the peeps peeking out from mom's feathers.