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

[Heidi T]

I think the people on this posting are all a bit cracked.

So I'll join you.
The funniest thing I've ever heard about chickens is from Hubby. "You're not getting any more chickens are you?" I answered "Noooo." Four of them. "You are NOT!! getting the neighbors ducks!!" Two turkeys later....

 

[Blooie]

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I saw this this morning and about flipped out! Did you know that the difference between white eggs and brown eggs is that brown egg layers are bigger chickens with red ear lobes and white layers are smaller chickens with white ear lobes AND THAT IT COSTS MORE TO FEED AND BUY CHICKENS WITH RED EAR LOBES?????? Well, shucks and darn - I'm glad all of my kids had blue eyes instead of having one or two kids with brown eyes......them brown eyed kids cost more to feed! Brother! And this was on the Kiplinger Report blog - doubt if I'll ever trust that "most trusted financial expert" again!

 

[vehve]

Blooie, to be fair, most eggs you find in a supermarket probably come from a commercial layer breed. Hy-Line is one of the biggest players in the field, and looking at their "product information", I'd say that holds true to the "breeds" they market. Sort of the same as saying that a chicken has feathers, someone will then bring up some weird variations of naked necks, or silkies. Or that a cat has fur, once again you get naked cats as an contradicting example. But it would probably be better to say that white eggs usually come from a Hy-Line W36, which has white lobes and uses less feed, or brown eggs usually come from a Hy-Line brown, which has red lobes and uses a bit more feed.

 

[Blooie]

Blooie, to be fair, most eggs you find in a supermarket probably come from a commercial layer breed. Hy-Line is one of the biggest players in the field, and looking at their "product information", I'd say that holds true to the "breeds" they market. Sort of the same as saying that a chicken has feathers, someone will then bring up some weird variations of naked necks, or silkies. Or that a cat has fur, once again you get naked cats as an contradicting example. But it would probably be better to say that white eggs usually come from a Hy-Line W36, which has white lobes and uses less feed, or brown eggs usually come from a Hy-Line brown, which has red lobes and uses a bit more feed.

Well, that may be but do most people reading that kind of thing differentiate even have that information? I still maintain that it's a stupid report.....

 

[GimmeCake]

Blooie, to be fair, most eggs you find in a supermarket probably come from a commercial layer breed. Hy-Line is one of the biggest players in the field, and looking at their "product information", I'd say that holds true to the "breeds" they market. Sort of the same as saying that a chicken has feathers, someone will then bring up some weird variations of naked necks, or silkies. Or that a cat has fur, once again you get naked cats as an contradicting example. But it would probably be better to say that white eggs usually come from a Hy-Line W36, which has white lobes and uses less feed, or brown eggs usually come from a Hy-Line brown, which has red lobes and uses a bit more feed.

Speaking of Silkies... what exactly are their feathers anyways? Are they even feathers?

 

[vehve]

Blooie, yeah, it's not a 100% accurate, I'll give you that

But it's a pretty correct generalization still... Even though there are blue egg layers too, and brown layers with white earlobes etc.

@GimmeCake I read somewhere that it's sort of a genetic fault that has caused silkies to never develop their feathers further from the down state. I don't know if it's true though.

 

[hennible]

At the vet clinic the better half used to work at, they sometimes got patients who wanted to harvest dog semen for breeding purposes. Who got to do the actual harvesting was always a rock, paper, scissors sort of deal...

That clinic needed this thing

The doggy hump toy.... :/

 

[GimmeCake]

That clinic needed this thing

The doggy hump toy....

Yes, but that's step one on selective breeding. What about step two..?

 

[hennible]

A turkey baster would cover steps 2 and 3

 

[winteree]

I think the people on this posting are all a bit cracked.

So I'll join you.
The funniest thing I've ever heard about chickens is from Hubby. "You're not getting any more chickens are you?" I answered "Noooo." Four of them. "You are NOT!! getting the neighbors ducks!!" Two turkeys later....

its so nice that you let your hubby get a say