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

[winteree]

Also, about brown eggs coming from brown chickens and so forth. I was under this impression myself too, but I suppose it stems from the fact that the breeds used for commercial operations here usually follow that rule. So while there are specialties, like EE's or others, I wouldn't say it's completely wrong to make a generalization, if it's true for the vast majority of chickens. As a rule, people with dark skin have dark skinned babies, and people with light skin have light skinned babies. But still, a person with very light skin can have pretty dark skinned parents.

it;s true my birth mother has brown skin and black hair both me and my brother have white skin and red\brown hair

 

[winteree]

Yeah, owning animals is seldom a sign of knowing how they actually work. With dogs it's often the same, many people rely heavily on advice from the breeder that they purchased the dog from. Often to them, the breeder enjoys some sort of godlike status when it comes to canine knowledge. I've met quite a few dog breeders, and while there are many people who are quite knowledgeable, there are also the one's that really shouldn't be let near animals. Operations that are bordering on puppy mills and so forth. Also, people often assume that medications work exactly the same way in humans and animals. People give ibuprofen to their dog because he's limping.

The worst story I've heard about was a guy who was asking for advice with his cat (around December). He had been keeping it without food for five days, and was wondering why it still hadn't gone into hibernation. You might get the cat to go to sleep that way, but I'm guessing you'd have a hard time getting him to wake up in Spring.

oh my god is the cat ok? that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard cats aren't reptiles!!

 

[vehve]

oh my god is the cat ok? that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard cat aren't reptiles!!

Apparently the owner was schooled about the workings of mammals.

 

[winteree]

Hate to say it but a woman that I work with who has had chickens most of her life thought this very same thing too until I set her straight. She'd seen where straw or other bedding had marked the color of the eggs while moist before and she used that as her defense for knowing that they come out soft.

Just goes to prove that it isn't just the non-chicken owners that have such misinformation about chickens in their vast knowledge of everything.

my grams ran into someone like that a few years before her aneurysm. luckily sweetie bird her oldest and only pet chicken was still laying. Gram had trained sweetie bird to lay eggs in her hand for the fair and to say the least she broke the lady of that misconception in about 2 minutes the look on her face was a thing of beauty

 

[winteree]

Apparently the owner was schooled about the workings of mammals.

thank goodness

good god even i knew stuff like that before we got our first cat when i was 8 for pete sakes and i thought i was clueless when i first started out with felines

 

[Chickadee42]

thank goodness good god even i knew stuff like that before we got our first cat when i was 8 for pete sakes and i thought i was clueless when i first started out with felines  

I don't get it...... Cats are so common..... How could they not know they don't hibernate? Cats aren't exactly a rare or endangered species, you can't swing a dead cat, as the saying goes, (don't ask me why people say this, they just do) without hitting a crazy cat lady.

 

[ChickenKid11]

"How do you kill the baby inside the egg before you eat the egg?"

 

[ChaoSS]

"How do you kill the baby inside the egg before you eat the egg?" 

It's like lobsters, just boil them and enjoy the screams.

 

[winteree]

I don't get it...... Cats are so common..... How could they not know they don't hibernate? Cats aren't exactly a rare or endangered species, you can't swing a dead cat, as the saying goes, (don't ask me why people say this, they just do) without hitting a crazy cat lady.

 

[dikbiscuit]

It's like lobsters, just boil them and enjoy the screams.

Lol.