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

[7 Biddies]

• Albert Einstein
  "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
  

 

[Linzzzey]

While I was holding my friends silkie chick.
"OMG! What is that??? Is that a sheep???"
Different person, same chick.
"Awww. What a cute dog!"

Granted it was white and very very fluffy but it was very young and about as big as both my fists.

Yet another person, polish pullet this time
"Why did you put a wig on your pigeon?"

SO GLAD I READ THIS TODAY!! HI-LARIOUS!!!

 

[poodlechicks]

x2!
Chickadee42, I can't stop laughing at your post! I'm coming to this thread more often...

 

[7 Biddies]

I can't believe it; this former suburban girl/military brat is now the authority on chickens for the country people.

Really???

A teacher, whose family goes back 150 years in these mountains, came to me complaining that her chickens weren't laying. "What can I do?" So, I asked a few questions and learned that they are running loose in the yard with no place to go to lay. I suggested that they were probably laying ... under bushes, in tall grass, buckets, or whatever else they could find. Consequently, she should set up a place for them, place some ceramic eggs where she wanted them to lay, and see what happens.

She just came to me saying I solved her problem. She made a coop where they could be safely locked in at night, and four nest boxes with ceramic eggs in them, and she's getting eggs, now. She was thrilled that she got 10 eggs yesterday!

She also had no idea what kind of chickens she had, so I told her. Now, she's proudly telling her friends and family, and marveling at the various colored eggs she's getting.

Considering where I come from, this is just too funny to me. But, it's also tres cool.

 

[TheKeeper]

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

lol x2

 

[ChickenKid11]

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

Lol that was some stupid person buying eggs from me!!

 

[CGinJCMO]

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I work in a 6-8 grade middle school. Part of the difference between learning now and learning then is the internet. How many of you when you don't know something "google it" or look it up in a traditional hardbound encyclopedia? Also, different states teach things at different ages. I've noticed that Common core (National government saying what is to be learned at each age group in each subject) is changing what they are the kids are learning and how they are learning. There's more imphasis on researching (and evaluating web sites for validity - Wikipedia=BAD!) than memorization. Common Core has it's good points but some things are getting lost. Missouri law has 8th graders learn Early US History/Constitution. My son when he was in 3rd grade was learning about where on a map is each state plus continents and oceans, and in 5th grade he'll learn states and capitals. We (at least at my school) quiz them again on states' locations in 8th grade. A kid coming from another state may not have the same things learned (states and capitals may be a 6th grade thing where they came from but if they moved to my district for their 6th grade year, then they missed that. Had something similar between districts with the DARE program: some schools have it at 5th grade and some have it at 6th grade and it delays some of the boys in my sons' troop from getting a badge because this troop has boys from at least 3 school districts).

CG

 

[vehve]

I work in a 6-8 grade middle school. Part of the difference between learning now and learning then is the internet. How many of you when you don't know something "google it" or look it up in a traditional hardbound encyclopedia? Also, different states teach things at different ages. I've noticed that Common core (National government saying what is to be learned at each age group in each subject) is changing what they are the kids are learning and how they are learning. There's more imphasis on researching (and evaluating web sites for validity - Wikipedia=BAD!) than memorization. Common Core has it's good points but some things are getting lost. Missouri law has 8th graders learn Early US History/Constitution. My son when he was in 3rd grade was learning about where on a map is each state plus continents and oceans, and in 5th grade he'll learn states and capitals. We (at least at my school) quiz them again on states' locations in 8th grade. A kid coming from another state may not have the same things learned (states and capitals may be a 6th grade thing where they came from but if they moved to my district for their 6th grade year, then they missed that. Had something similar between districts with the DARE program: some schools have it at 5th grade and some have it at 6th grade and it delays some of the boys in my sons' troop from getting a badge because this troop has boys from at least 3 school districts).

CG

The point about the difference in what is relevant to learn today and in days past is a good one. I've heard several elderly people complain about how young people can't do this and that, but who is it that has to program their TV or teach them how to pay their bills using internet banking? The necessary skill-set of people today has greatly changed in a few decades. I will not start a debate on what a school should teach when, if at all, because this to many is a touchy subject, but I will say that a national curriculum has its merits. At least people seem to agree that the educational system of my home country produces decent results.

Being critical of sources is a valuable talent to possess, but I feel labeling Wikipedia as bad is quite unjust. Sure, you shouldn't plagiarize directly off of it, but I think that a knowledge bank that builds on user added information is a beautiful idea. The basic structure of this of course means that time to time factually incorrect information is added, but as a starting point Wikipedia is a great place to educate yourself when all you need is a basic grasp of a subject. And the incorrect information usually gets corrected at some point.

 

[CGinJCMO]

My ex husband is the dumbest smart guy I've ever known and I'm about to share a really good example. He got straight A's in all his college courses, but we so dumb about most things, now my example. It snowed a lot one year and knocked out the power and I was like at least we have the wokdstove and he was like how will we flush the toilets and stuff with no water? Hey genius, see all that white stuff on the ground? If you bring it in and out it near or on top of the wood stove it will under go a chemical reaction and create water...

Please don't take this the wrong way, but melting is a physical change. It is water changing from a solid to a liquid. A chemical change would be separating the water molecules (H2O) into Hydrogen and Oxygen. Adding table salt (NaCl) is a mixture (there are other kinds of salt that are not good for human consumption). Photosysthesis is a chemical change when water and carbon dioxide combine to make new compounds of Oxygen and Glucose.

CG

 

[missnu01]

Right..my point was he was so very smart but didn't realize that snow is frozen water...just another time he missed the super important details in life. Like putting a power wheels ride on toy wheels on backwards, or draining the transmission fluid during an oil change then freaking out because the oil is red. It wasn't meant to be scientific. It was for sarcastic purposes only. But thank you for the very pointless science lesson.