Well, I am the newest of the noobs, and had a lot to learn about keeping chickens when I decided to start. Being a nurse, I was able to reason that you didn't need a rooster for eggs, and was actually quite confused when that wasn't obvious to others
. That quandry, and how many eggs/hen/day I get are the most common.
My friend's 8 year old little girl (Who nick named me Aunt Martini at age 3, and still calls me Tini to this day
) loves the hens, but she doesn't want to eat any of the eggs, because "There will be a chick in them." She cannot explain to me why the eggs from the store are chickless, but remains convinced that if chicks come from eggs, then, duh, my eggs will have chicks in them. Ever tried to reason with an 8 year old? I guess even a little kid knows there is something un-natural about the crap we eat in America, lol! She'll wise up, she's a pretty cool kid. It's fun to teach her stuff. I don't dare give her too much info on the topic, because a birds and the bees talk from me would probably be scarring for a kid her age, but I did explain that there would be no chicks because I don't have a "Daddy chicken", and she didn't question it.
Anyway, I don't count the utterings of children as "Dumb", but I think I got my first real dumb question today. My neighbor, who knows I have hens as she had to sign my "permission slip" to get them (city ordinance) stopped by today. I was walking around the yard with my BR, Bernadette Peepers, who needs to learn that she
will be handled. My neighbor looked at me in puzzlement and asked "What are you holding?" Now, if it was my Silkie mix, I could almost see the confusion, lol, but Bernadette looks pretty chickeny.