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

[HeWhoChickens]

Funny thread There is a difference though between every day ignorance (you can't know everything), willful ignorance (deliberately not wanting to know something) and stupidity (inability to know.) I don't mind the first and the last in that list, I get extremely annoyed by the people who are willfully ignorant though.

Don't have chickens yet. Are closing on a house in the country in a couple weeks and plan on getting chickens then. When talking about my plans with my friends I get the "Don't they smell" comment quite a bit. I started telling them I was going to install sprinklers in the coop that come on every night to wash the birds and the coop

On the funny things tourists say front...

I used to live in Lancaster, PA, many years ago. My first summer there (I was 17yo, late 1980's,) I worked at an amusement park called Dutch Wonderland. Typical kiddie amusement park rides and such. The folks from Philly and NJ would come over to Lancaster for the outlet shopping and to see the Amish.

I was working the swan boat ride when a father and his young daughter walked up to me.
He asked, "When do the Amish close?"
Me, "Do you mean this park?"
Him, "No, the Amish out in the country side farming"
Me, ".......I'm not sure I understand...."
Him, "You know, the ones who reenact the old ways of farming."

Turns out he thought the Amish were actors, lol. I tried to gently educate him, but I don't think he believed me.

Another time a tourist complained to me about the Horse & Buggies on the road saying, "They should build their own roads to use!" He seemed confused when I said, "Well, they did, then we paved over them."

 

[7 Biddies]

Some people have harped at me for naming some of my chickens. We have so many that not all are named, but it helps when you need to distinguish the difference between one another. When they gripe at me for eating named chickens/roosters I tell them they all look the same plucked or skinned in the freezer bag.

Good point. Once they're in the freezer, there's no way to know who's who. Could be a store bought chicken for all I know. I'll have to point that out next time. Besides, naming them didn't make me emotionally attached; it was just fun coming up with names like Miss Prissy, Margaret T. Hatcher, and Eggatha Christie.

 

[7 Biddies]

To me, that has to be one of the most ignorant rationalizations of all...the naming or not naming of food animals rendering them inedible or edible, according to if they have a name. Where in the world did that freakish idea come from??? Naming something makes it a pet? Automatically? It's like something has been placed in the water and everyone is drinking some drug that short circuits the neurons in the part of the brain that deals with separating fantasy from reality.

Where did we ever learn that a name...a sound one makes with their mouth but does not cling to an animal's fur or feathers in any permanent way unless someone is tattooing or spray painting their animal's names on them....turns an animal into one that is a pet and therefore can never be ingested. If ingested it renders the one ingesting it into a monster of epically cruel and sadistic proportions.

Or that not naming an animal allows one to distance oneself from them emotionally so that one's heart actually hardens enough that they can eat said animal...simply because it has lived without a name. That's just.....weird. And childish. To compartmentalize animals into named or unnamed and letting that determine how they are treated or viewed in your mind or heart. Just because of a name.

It's all fantasy.

News flash...they will all eventually die, be they Betsy, Spot or No Name Naked Neck. Whether we eat them or not is immaterial at that point as something will consume them, even if it is not us. Dead is dead, name or not. Anything other than that reality is just the fantasy of an emotionally immature mind.

Like I said, these people replace logic with emotions. Must be why they're on their umpteenth spouse.

 

[7 Biddies]

Funny thread There is a difference though between every day ignorance (you can't know everything), willful ignorance (deliberately not wanting to know something) and stupidity (inability to know.) I don't mind the first and the last in that list, I get extremely annoyed by the people who are willfully ignorant though.

Don't have chickens yet. Are closing on a house in the country in a couple weeks and plan on getting chickens then. When talking about my plans with my friends I get the "Don't they smell" comment quite a bit. I started telling them I was going to install sprinklers in the coop that come on every night to wash the birds and the coop

On the funny things tourists say front...

I used to live in Lancaster, PA, many years ago. My first summer there (I was 17yo, late 1980's,) I worked at an amusement park called Dutch Wonderland. Typical kiddie amusement park rides and such. The folks from Philly and NJ would come over to Lancaster for the outlet shopping and to see the Amish.

I was working the swan boat ride when a father and his young daughter walked up to me.
He asked, "When do the Amish close?"
Me, "Do you mean this park?"
Him, "No, the Amish out in the country side farming"
Me, ".......I'm not sure I understand...."
Him, "You know, the ones who reenact the old ways of farming."

Turns out he thought the Amish were actors, lol. I tried to gently educate him, but I don't think he believed me.

Another time a tourist complained to me about the Horse & Buggies on the road saying, "They should build their own roads to use!" He seemed confused when I said, "Well, they did, then we paved over them."

I agree ... but, what you call "willful ignorance" I call intellectual laziness. Same thing, and I abhor it. There's really no excuse for it. As a school psychologist, I evaluate kids for learning problems and can tell you there is plenty of all 3.

 

[chicksurreal]

Funny thread There is a difference though between every day ignorance (you can't know everything), willful ignorance (deliberately not wanting to know something) and stupidity (inability to know.) I don't mind the first and the last in that list, I get extremely annoyed by the people who are willfully ignorant though.

Don't have chickens yet. Are closing on a house in the country in a couple weeks and plan on getting chickens then. When talking about my plans with my friends I get the "Don't they smell" comment quite a bit. I started telling them I was going to install sprinklers in the coop that come on every night to wash the birds and the coop

On the funny things tourists say front...

I used to live in Lancaster, PA, many years ago. My first summer there (I was 17yo, late 1980's,) I worked at an amusement park called Dutch Wonderland. Typical kiddie amusement park rides and such. The folks from Philly and NJ would come over to Lancaster for the outlet shopping and to see the Amish.

I was working the swan boat ride when a father and his young daughter walked up to me.
He asked, "When do the Amish close?"
Me, "Do you mean this park?"
Him, "No, the Amish out in the country side farming"
Me, ".......I'm not sure I understand...."
Him, "You know, the ones who reenact the old ways of farming."

Turns out he thought the Amish were actors, lol. I tried to gently educate him, but I don't think he believed me.

Another time a tourist complained to me about the Horse & Buggies on the road saying, "They should build their own roads to use!" He seemed confused when I said, "Well, they did, then we paved over them."

I agree with you, willful ignorance is hard to tolerate!

The comments about the Amish are too funny!

 

[7 Biddies]

Another time a tourist complained to me about the Horse & Buggies on the road saying, "They should build their own roads to use!" He seemed confused when I said, "Well, they did, then we paved over them."

That's like telling the Native Americans to stay on their own land.

HeWhoChickens. Hmmm ... so, chickens has become a verb, like golf. Interesting.

 

[chicksurreal]

That's like telling the Native Americans to stay on their own land.

HeWhoChickens. Hmmm ... so, chickens has become a verb, like golf. Interesting.

Lol!

 

[sunflour]

@HeWhoChickens

The smell issue is a common concern…and the funniest ones who have dog kennels which are never cleaned out. And they don't seem to notice even the dogs are covering their noses.

One quite common comment is that chickens bring in snakes. I love to give the answer " that's a good thing, so the snakes can eat all those rats who show up".

 

[bigmrg74]

That's like telling the Native Americans to stay on their own land.

HeWhoChickens. Hmmm ... so, chickens has become a verb, like golf. Interesting.

 

[7 Biddies]

That's like telling the Native Americans to stay on their own land.

HeWhoChickens. Hmmm ... so, chickens has become a verb, like golf. Interesting.

The verb, to chicken:

Singular - Plural
I chicken - We chicken
You chicken - You chicken
He/she chickens - They chicken