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

[7 Biddies]

My eggs were in my refrigerator and one day a relative of mine came over to see the chickens and after we were done looking at them I asked her if she wanted to take a dozen eggs home. She said yes so I got them out of a refrigerator and she told me that now that she had fresh eggs she was going to try to have a chick (at the time I didn't even have a rooster) So I said good luck with that and let her go on her merry way. (she never had the chick) Lol

Congratulations on being wise. As George Carlin said, "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."

 

[7 Biddies]

My older sister HATES chickens she said that they are "Ugly and gross"

Your older sister clearly has NO taste!

(I love the way some people state their personal opinion as if it's established scientific fact)

 

[EmeraldRuby]

Your older sister clearly has NO taste!

(I love the way some people state their personal opinion as if it's established scientific fact)

I know right?

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Or, in desert southwest you get Scorpions when you turn over rocks. Any land clearing or rock moving required high top leather boots and thick insulated gloves. Boots for snakes and gloves for scorpions.

I once found a small scorpion in a washing machine at a campground in the area of Cloverdale, CA.

In Nevada, we mainly have vinegaroons, not scorpions.

 

[Chickadee42]

A city friend is currently visiting and won't go out in the yard because I had a bear in my yard one night recently. Mind you, neither I or any of my neighbors have seen a bear, we've just seen the evidence of his visits the morning after. She's also scared to death of my chickens b/c they're birds, and "birds flap their wings". Huh?

I sort of kind of get the flapping their wings part. My speckled Sussex, Amber, is very friendly and will eat out of your hand, but if you dare try to pick her up she wil flap violently and for anyone who doesn't know her, it is quite alarming. She would never peck anyone (unless she decides your freckles are food ) but she does like to make a lot noise and flap.
But being afraid of all birds just because they have wings? That's just plain stupid. It's not actually possible for any small bird to really hurt you with their wings. They may flap in your face, but it doesn't hurt. It's just annoying.

 

[7 Biddies]

I sort of kind of get the flapping their wings part. My speckled Sussex, Amber, is very friendly and will eat out of your hand, but if you dare try to pick her up she wil flap violently and for anyone who doesn't know her, it is quite alarming. She would never peck anyone (unless she decides your freckles are food

) but she does like to make a lot noise and flap.
But being afraid of all birds just because they have wings? That's just plain stupid. It's not actually possible for any small bird to really hurt you with their wings. They may flap in your face, but it doesn't hurt. It's just annoying.

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Yeah, well, she's afraid of ALL birds because they flap their wings. I don't get that, but people and their neuroses ... whatcha gonna do.

 

[Mah1Mah1]

Kind of like not doing that here in the US because of the possibility of hiding snattlerakes or ticking off a bull snake - non-venomous, but will bite.

Also we have a ton of bad spiders. I'm not afraid of spiders and most are not venomous... funnel-webs are a different matter

 

[Papas Chickens]

Or, in desert southwest you get Scorpions when you turn over rocks. Any land clearing or rock moving required high top leather boots and thick insulated gloves. Boots for snakes and gloves for scorpions.

Leather boots wont stop a rattlesnake bite, there fangs can puncture truck tires. I never use gloves when cleaning my yard i see scorpions all the time, i only worry about the bark and green scorpions here.

 

[evemfoster]

Leather boots wont stop a rattlesnake bite, there fangs can puncture truck tires. I never use gloves when cleaning my yard i see scorpions all the time, i only worry about the bark and green scorpions here.

It was moms protection for working around scorpions. Our rattlesnakes were western diamondbacks and the scorpions were mostly white and a very rarely seen black. I have to admit i only seen a dozen or so rattlesnakes as i was growing up. And scorpion protection was usually carefully shaking out the shoes in the morning on hunting trips. But we would turn over rocks and boards at home to kill the scorpions. To keep them from building up there numbers around the house. We also went out into the desert and picked up really BIG flattened rocks to bring home.

When it was wet our yard at home turned into this shoe eating sucking clay. Spring was especially fun, the more you walked on the clay the softer and larger the soft spot got and the deeper in you would sink. By full thaw rescuing stuck kids happened often. On a hunting trip we came across a lot of broken slab rocks about 8" thick just sitting out on the ground. Dad decided that they would make good stepping stones for around the doors.

The whole family would gather around a rock slab as big as we could pick up and move it a couple feet at a time. The scorpions under the rock would scatter when the rock was picked up and head for new shelter. It often would be under the arches of our boots or back under the very same rock we had just moved. We could put 2 or 3 of the rock slabs into the back of the International and take them home to place around the door. We would go hunting 2-3 times a year and would bring home rock slabs each trip. By the time we were done we had a rock patio years before they became popular.

 

[Nuggetirl]

I have a friend who buys eggs from me and she mistakenly believes the chalaza that keeps the yoke in place indicates that the egg is fertile. So she constantly talks about me giving her "sperm filled eggs". Even when I didn't have a rooster anymore. She kept talking about finding sperm in her eggs.

I sold my roo and didn't tell her and she made her usual comments again while joking to someone about buying my eggs but having to be careful with them and how she digs the sperm out before cooking the eggs. I then told her that none of them could have been fertile for four months since I'd gotten rid of my roo and my cockerels weren't old enough yet at the time to fertilize the eggs. She still insisted that she was digging sperm out.

My friend's aunt is convinced that chalaza is the umbilical cord of baby chickens....