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

[Peep_Show]

I'm waiting on my first duck eggs... I'm a bit weirded out by what I will do with them, the chickens eggs though, yum, no problem there so much tastier than store bought.
Animals and nature are excellent remedies for what ails the mind. Try gardening, that sure brings tranquility, that's my favourite mental medicine.

Duck eggs are FABULOUS for baking.

 

[lazy gardener]

Im not in the city thank the lord. I have some fat or very heavy C. Rocks. I also have some heavy B. Rocks that can't get to high off the ground and never get out of the yard that's surrounded by a 4' high fence. My thought is to cross them with the Amer roo and the Auracana roo. I'd still get colored eggs after the second generation and birds that can't fly over the fence.

I do like the pure birds but have to choose, so I stick with the EE's.

Put an Ameraucana or EE roo over your BR hens, and you'll get some nice big black sex link pullets with pea combs who lay a nice dark blue green egg!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

Put an Ameraucana or EE roo over your BR hens, and you'll get some nice big black sex link pullets with pea combs who lay a nice dark blue green egg!!!

I'd like to get birds that lay a large egg. I've a couple of blue hens that lay a medium sized egg. Not big enough for me. I figure a larger bird will lay me a bigger egg.

Most of the eggs I get are a large (2oz.) or larger.

 

[cassie]

If the cook book was written in the 1800s, then it was for those that could actually read it; the wealthy. Literacy was not that common back then. The wealthy with domestic help used children that did not go to school so they did not learn how to read.

The treatment of wealthy and poor gets even worse when you go back further in history, which is once again about wealthy merchants and Royalty. It was not pleasant to be poor back then and most people were poor and miserable. They did not live in a manor with servants and cooks.

Edited to add: It is funny to me to watch movies set in medieval times and the chickens are Cinnamon Queens!

Very few cookbooks were written in the 1800's. I think I stated that my cook book was written in 1919 not 1819. It was written after The Great War, as it was called, when the pool of cheap domestic labor dried up. Hence the emphasis on how to run a household without servants or outside help. My opinion on meal size is not confined to this cookbook anyway. Most of it is from personal observation, reading old USDA farm extension bulletins, reading women's magazines written in the 1920's, '30's, '40's and 50's plus talking to the older generations.

My mother was born the same year that cookbook was published, and yes, she could read and write. So could her parents. So could their parents. And no, they were not wealthy. As for meal size, my mother told me what she helped cook for farm hands and harvest crews when she was a girl and I know what my aunt put on her farm table in the 1940's because I lived with her for several years when I was small. People doing heavy physical labor need a lot of calories. Do the math. People living in the 1940's and before needed more calories than most people living today do because they were a lot more active.

Read Two Years Before the Mast by John Henry Dana. It was written in the mid 1800's. Dana tells very clearly what he and his shipmates ate and what happened when rations were short. In a nutshell, they physically couldn't do the work.

 

[hennible]

I'd like to get birds that lay a large egg. I've a couple of blue hens that lay a medium sized egg. Not big enough for me.  I figure a larger bird will lay me a bigger egg. 

Most of the eggs I get are a large (2oz.) or larger.  

I get huge olive eggs outta an Amerucana cross brown sex-a-link

Duck eggs are FABULOUS for baking.

I hope so, some people say you can't beat them.

 

[WoodenCoyote]

I have been surprised by how much fun they are. I suffer from depression and it's hard to get going most days, until I got chickens. Chicken TV is my favorite. I love their weird little personalities and quirks.

Same here. My wife and I both suffer from serious anxiety disorders (one of the things that brought us together), and the chickens are very healing. They provide a certain structure to the day now - even if you're feeling terrible, they still have to be let out, fed, tended first thing. It makes it just that little bit easier to get out of bed on bad days. And when we're feeling panicky, it's so calming to just sit in the garden and watch them act out their little dramas.

 

[hennible]

Same here. My wife and I both suffer from serious anxiety disorders (one of the things that brought us together), and the chickens are very healing. They provide a certain structure to the day now - even if you're feeling terrible, they still have to be let out, fed, tended first thing. It makes it just that little bit easier to get out of bed on bad days. And when we're feeling panicky, it's so calming to just sit in the garden and watch them act out their little dramas.

Yeah great for anxiety.... Love my animals and kids for that motivation, haven't had an big anxiety attack sense I had my first son....
Just don't have the time

 

[ChickyChickens]

Yeah great for anxiety.... Love my animals and kids for that motivation, haven't had an big anxiety attack sense I had my first son....
Just don't have the time

 

[Mintatheena]

Woah this thread has spiraled into a few different directions lol

I have to say, one of the most common things I always get asked is "The hen doesn't need a rooster??"
Once, I had someone ask me if my Araucana rooster has been attacked by an animal because he has no tail! Haha

Same here. My wife and I both suffer from serious anxiety disorders (one of the things that brought us together), and the chickens are very healing. They provide a certain structure to the day now - even if you're feeling terrible, they still have to be let out, fed, tended first thing. It makes it just that little bit easier to get out of bed on bad days. And when we're feeling panicky, it's so calming to just sit in the garden and watch them act out their little dramas.

I have a minor anxiety problem that disrupts my sleep when things get pretty hectic and stressful, Chickens, and pets in general really do help you feel important and needed

 

[rancher hicks]

Good conversations have a way of doing that.

Woah this thread has spiraled into a few different directions lol

I have to say, one of the most common things I always get asked is "The hen doesn't need a rooster??"
Once, I had someone ask me if my Araucana rooster has been attacked by an animal because he has no tail! Haha



I have a minor anxiety problem that disrupts my sleep when things get pretty hectic and stressful, Chickens, and pets in general really do help you feel important and needed