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

[rancher hicks]

Chickens go mental for watermelon. If you start a patch make sure it is well fenced off.

I have and it takes some work. Still those buggers find a way in. It's a surprise I got any garlic this year. EE's are very good at flying over fences. I'm working on fatter EE's so they can get lift off.

 

[hennible]

Oh my chickens never let me get any garlic!
Thankfully they don't enter the greenhouse, or I wouldn't get anything.

 

[mandtroof]

  I have and it takes some work. Still those buggers find a way in.  It's a surprise I got any garlic this year.  EE's are very good at flying over fences.  I'm working on fatter EE's so they can get lift off.  

I just love watching my chicks get into stuff, we had a ton of sticktites this year, the chicks went crazy for them. How do you guys get those cute emoticons?

 

[hennible]

If you in the desk top version they are on the right side--->
If your on the mobile version you got to type it.

 

[mandtroof]

I'm on mobile, which would explain the difficulty. Thanks!

 

[hennible]

Me too I type em the few I know

 

[rancher hicks]

That would be a misconception that the poor didn't have farms. Many, if not most, poor did farm if they didn't live in the cities, at least to a degree. My grandfather had only about 50 acres, which were dirt cheap when he got the place, and he ate what he grew, had very little money, wore ragged clothes. Owning a farm is not an endeavor for the well off, but farming on small scale, which mine did, was rather a necessity in order to live. The day will come when someone owning 5 acres like we do is considered rich. And maybe even a little mistrusted, if they aren't already.

My SIL from England is surprised at how much we own and what we paid for it. There are still bargains to be had out there.

In Europe and the U.K. land and houses are expensive compared to the U.S. IMO and I could be wrong folks are used to living in small places over there compared to us.

When I grew up the new houses I envied cost $15,000 but wages weren't that great. Folks forget there was a time when orphanages were run and children removed from the home due to poverty.

We were lucky in that with eight my mother held on to us, being a single parent and all. My father was a live and that may have helped her to do so. Still she was not the farmer type I am. Knowing what I know now I can't understand why we went hungry. Seems to me when your life is on the line you learn to garden, can and cook. She did know how to sew though. I think she suffered from depression, and treated it with alcohol. She handled it somehow. We didn't understand.

Not sure how we got off topic.

So with that said, a weird thing my neighbor asked, and we are not friends nor close, "how do they have sex?" I was dumbfounded but said I don't talk about such stuff. He has Tourettes and for some reason is prone to say weird stuff. I change the subject at times like that.

Others have asked about eggs and needing a rooster. Do I eat my chickens ? Which isn't really weird I suppose.

 

[hennible]

If someone asked how my chickens had sex I'd say " carefully " and ROFL
Then I'd tell then it's called a cloacal kiss and wait for the next question.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I have and it takes some work. Still those buggers find a way in. It's a surprise I got any garlic this year. EE's are very good at flying over fences. I'm working on fatter EE's so they can get lift off.

Mine have a thing for chives.

 

[WoodenCoyote]

Oh my chickens never let me get any garlic!
Thankfully they don't enter the greenhouse, or I wouldn't get anything.

I'm about to plant garlic. Will they dig it up? I thought it was poisonous to hens.