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

[cluckcluckgirl]

Borrow away!! HIQ always knows which one she is, too.

Each of my hens lays a different egg, either in color or shape. Thankfully, I have only 5 hens or I'd need to start building a chart of who lays which shape/color!!

Being backyard hens they simply know how to entertain us and especially how to push the "treats' or "let us out to free range" buttons. My backyard is SOOOO free of weeds because (due to a large local hawk population) I must stay outdoors with the hens. Sitting around is not my forte thus the yard is trimmed, pruned, weeded, harvested and in perfect shape. The front yard, not so much.

Giving credit where credit is due, my compost heaps get a regular turning by the busy scratching feet of 5 hens!! All I have to do it rake it all up when the girls move on.

Gosh, I hope Chicken Whisperer didn't get paper eggs after the plate eating incident! Can you imagine??

Haha, no paper eggs yet!

 

[SNJchickens]

Believe it or not I found my source on Craigslist!

 

[Hinotori]

My nan told me she can't take my eggs because they make her cakes too golden

This is an issue is you want a white cake. My brothers complained one Christmas that the cheesecake was a funny yellow because of my egg yolks. They still ate it though. Mom has to go buy store eggs if she's doing a white cake. If it's just something for her she uses my eggs.

 

[Hinotori]

Organic has been taken over by corporate America. Call your eggs sustainable and educate people about commercial birds in the US and how they are kept, organic or not.

 

[ronott1]

This is an issue is you want a white cake. My brothers complained one Christmas that the cheesecake was a funny yellow because of my egg yolks. They still ate it though. Mom has to go buy store eggs if she's doing a white cake. If it's just something for her she uses my eggs.

Two ways to make the cake white lookng:

1. Use white food coloring. This is sold from Bakery supply stores.
2. Find a recipe that uses egg whites and no yolks. This is used for Wedding cakes.

 

[7 Biddies]

My girls free range over my 1 acre property, to which I have never added chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Before I moved here, it was undeveloped land, so I'm pretty sure the land is clean. I supplement the girls with organic feed, and have a system that provides them with rain water for drinking. So, I guess their eggs are pretty organic. I have too many eggs for just myself, so I sell some to a few people who know how my chickens are raised (spoiled, really) and that the eggs are really organic, although the FDA/USDA has never certified or approved them as such.

Well, my son came to visit recently, and tagged along while I delivered some eggs to my person in nearby NC. He couldn't stop laughing because his mother has "customers" to whom she sells "black market" eggs AND transports said contraband over the state line! Went home to tell all his city friends, laughing the entire way because he always said I was the most law abiding person he knew and called me a "hall monitor" when he was a teenager. But, that's ok. I used to joke with my doctor that he was a criminal because he bought raw milk.

 

[7 Biddies]

I had to stop giving my girls treats on paper plates because one hen decided the plate tasted better than the food! I really wanna see the yolks from my hens' eggs today because they ate a lot of greens yesterday.

People always seem surprised when I tell of how my hens will do funny things. Some are even surprised that I can tell whose egg it is!

Of course you can tell whose egg it is .... you're their MOTHER!

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

Of course you can tell whose egg it is .... you're their MOTHER!

Well of course! It's like asking a human parent which kids have what hair!

 

[7 Biddies]

Well of course! It's like asking a human parent which kids have what hair!

Not to mention a mother always recognizes the sound of her own baby's cry, even in a room full of kids! My neighbors always crack up when I point to the eggs and name the hen that laid each. I recognize their egg songs, too. Blanche is my loudest.

 

[enola]

My boy friend is simply amazed that I can tell him which rooster is crowing. He says they all sound the same to him.