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

[Minchi]

Right you are! I doubt you'll find anyone here who will disagee with, much less bully, you about your chickens, Next time they hassle you about it, show them this YouTube about commercial egg production, and ask them what *they're* doing to counteract it. YOU are raising your own chickens for eggs so you won't support this filth and cruelty..In the meantime, you're also eating cleaner, healthier, better tasting eggs. Until they can make the same claim, they need to back off.

Your link didn't make me a vegan(as it intended) but it did strength my resolve to raise my own large flock as soon as I get the land to. I might even do my own breading program and just use the extra males for meat when they come of age.

 

[7 Biddies]

Your link didn't make me a vegan(as it intended) but it did strength my resolve to raise my own large flock as soon as I get the land to. I might even do my own breading program and just use the extra males for meat when they come of age.

Making you a vegan wasn't *my* intention. My motive was just to show the young poster how to educate the other kids on why it's a good idea to raise chickens for eggs, instead of supporting corporate egg production. Instead of making fun, they might get a very rude awakening.

Until you are able to raise your own, I hope you can find a local supply of non-factory raised chickens for your family's needs.

 

[NevadaRon]

People make the mistake of projecting their feelings on to animals ... and on to everyone else, as well. "If I feel this way, the rest of the world must, too!" It's called Egocentrism, or "I Am The Norm". They also don't bother to think things through. E.g. While riding through the mountians, I told my city friend from So. FL. that there are no natural lakes in the Blue Ridge Mountains; they're all dammed up rivers and streams. She responded, "Oh. So, they're all fresh water lakes?"

I just said, "Why yes, I guess they are".

I've gotten so I don't try to set them straight anymore as it just confuses them and can prolong the insanity. Instead, I just respond, "Ahhhh. I didn't know that", and move on. Ignorance can be bliss, I suppose.

Out here we live in what is called the Great Basin - so named because none of the water courses have any outlet to the ocean. It is a huge area that covers multiple states. All rivers and streams eventually end up in a lake, sometimes wet lakes, but more often than not dry lakes. Anyway, one of the wet lakes in CA is called Mono Lake. A woman I know and her husband were traveling down that way and stopped at Mono Lake and were wading in it. They noticed that the lake was salty, and there were sea gulls (which I hear you can find even in Kansas), so they figured there must be some way to the ocean from there. Mind you, this lake's surface is at an elevation of 6,378 feet above sea level! With the Sierra Nevada range (up to 14,000 + feet above sea level!) between it and the ocean. I explained to her how, just like the ocean basins, the GReat Basin has no outlet so over time water flowing into these lakes evaporates and they become more and more salty, like the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

 

[7 Biddies]

Out here we live in what is called the Great Basin - so named because none of the water courses have any outlet to the ocean. It is a huge area that covers multiple states. All rivers and streams eventually end up in a lake, sometimes wet lakes, but more often than not dry lakes. Anyway, one of the wet lakes in CA is called Mono Lake. A woman I know and her husband were traveling down that way and stopped at Mono Lake and were wading in it. They noticed that the lake was salty, and there were sea gulls (which I hear you can find even in Kansas), so they figured there must be some way to the ocean from there. Mind you, this lake's surface is at an elevation of 6,378 feet above sea level! With the Sierra Nevada range (up to 14,000 + feet above sea level!) between it and the ocean. I explained to her how, just like the ocean basins, the GReat Basin has no outlet so over time water flowing into these lakes evaporates and they become more and more salty, like the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

I've been through the salt flats outside SL City, but didn't know about the Great Basin ... as an East Coast girl, I know little about Western geography/topography. Learned something new today ... thank you.

 

[furbabymum]

Not chicken related but country living related. People are ALWAYS asking me how I get my car so dirty. Ummm, I drive in the dirt.... Oy! Like it's hard to figure out I live on an unmaintained dirt road in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Minchi]

Making you a vegan wasn't *my* intention. My motive was just to show the young poster how to educate the other kids on why it's a good idea to raise chickens for eggs, instead of supporting corporate egg production. Instead of making fun, they might get a very rude awakening.

Until you are able to raise your own, I hope you can find a local supply of non-factory raised chickens for your family's needs.

Oh I have three, too young to lay right now, I would just like more and start providing my own meat then I don't have to feel bad about my sources. The best locally provided eggs I have are $8 a doz. but I will share your video.

 

[Orps]

Recently I had a conversation in which this person believes my hens will not produce eggs without a Rooster.
I explain that I do not need a rooster. My hens will eventually produce eggs(they are only 11 weeks old) but I will not have chicks.
In which this person responded that if I had eggs why wouldn't they eventually hatch into chicks

Then I had to explain about ovulation and fertilization..which is a whole different story...........

 

[DKrueger4]

I wouldnt let people like that hurt your feelings, she obviously didnt want to appear stupid in front of your other friends (probably felt really dumb too!) many people will 'front' when they dont know what they are actually doing. My son who is almost 9 gets alot of hassle because he spends so much time with animals and not alot of time with people, he says he prefers animals to people because animals dont fib! (how right is he!) Just rest assured that you are a smart girl who knows a whole lot about animals

I actually am a boy, but I've known Cheyenne since we were 3. I just won't be talking to her in a while.

 

[LizzieJ]

my apologies! i feel so dumb right now lol!

 

[DKrueger4]

Don't worry about it! It does sound awkward fo me to be at an all girls party.

But it actually wasn't because all her other friends are my friends to. I have more friends that are girls. I am not gay, I just think the maturity levels between boys and girls are VERY different.