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

[7 Biddies]

Hehe, pantyhose! Now that dates you!

Oh. Are panty hose out of date? I haven't worn them in YEARS. But, if I really want to date myself, try having to wear a long-leg panty girdle and stockings when I was a "stewardess" in the mid-1960s'., during the "coffee, tea, or me?" days. Panty hose came along a few years after that, so we got to hang up our girdles.

 

[7 Biddies]

AND 7 BIDDIES BACKFIRES!!!!!! Things are not looking good for Minchi, let's see how she handles this situation...

Stay tuned for more on MS.BAGAWKBAGAWK COMMENTARY LIVE!!

Forgive my lack of "coolness", but I'm totally lost on this one. How did I backfire? Why are things not looking good for Minchi? What situation must she handle? All this and more, during our next eggciting episode of, As the Hen House Turns!

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

My grandma still has a girdle, and uses it sometimes. Heh, old people...

Just kidding! If you want to see old look at my great grandpa. He just got a computer and thinks ebay is email, and calls it a TV. He's fun to talk to though, kind of guy who will comment (sorry, I mean YELL ACROSS THE ROOM) on how your hair was "long enough to wipe your a** with, why'd you cut it off?" during an important business meeting if he is too bored. True story by the way, that was really fun because I was bored out of my skull too.

 

[amorrill]

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.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

7 biddies,

I don't know, you replied to what she said, I really wanted to type something in all caps too.

I like that "As the Hen House Turns". Anybody been watching the young and the restless lately? I think they should call it the old and the senile.....

I should quote more it would be easier to follow me.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

ammorill,

Best reasoning with an eight year old: Why not? Stumps em every time.

 

[7 Biddies]

I like that "As the Hen House Turns". Anybody been watching the young and the restless lately? I think they should call it the old and the senile.....

Mind if I steal that from you? Only, I'm going to change it to The Old and the Sedate. Now that I've moved out of the fast lane of the city, and moved over to the slow lane in a small town in the mountains, it really fits when describing my friends and I. My 30 something children and city friends make fun of me for living the country life ... early to rise, early to bed, supper at 5pm (and it's not so I can get the Early Bird Special, either). It's just a slower pace of life, with my chickens, that I have come to LOVE. So, "The Old and Sedate" is perfect when describing us.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Sure, I wish I could do the early to bed and early to rise, it sounds so nice to wake up before the sun rises and do everything before the heat of the day, but unfortunately with my parent's restaurant we are usually up until 1 am and up again at 5 if we go to work with them. Luckily that only goes on 3-5 days a week, so we have a chance to recover.

 

[oldrooster]

Have you ever seen a rooster use a urinal?

Well?

That's as scarce as hens teeth.... lol.

 

[7 Biddies]

Sure, I wish I could do the early to bed and early to rise, it sounds so nice to wake up before the sun rises and do everything before the heat of the day, but unfortunately with my parent's restaurant we are usually up until 1 am and up again at 5 if we go to work with them. Luckily that only goes on 3-5 days a week, so we have a chance to recover.

Ouch! I put in hours like that when I was much younger, but I've earned this sedate life and I'm enjoying it for all it's worth. That's what I meant by pulling over into the slow lane by moving to a small town in the mountains. However, I'm still working; I'm a school psychologist which requires early school hours, so the schedule was kinda forced on me. I enjoy it now, though. Won't change it when I finally get to retire in another 4 years or so.