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

[amorrill]

My MIL grew up with chickens and told me I had to de-beak them or else they would kill each other...even if I let them free range ("why on earth would you let them outside?"). She also thought I needed a rooster for eggs.

I was told the same thing by a "chicken expert"! I was so horrified that I flat out told her that I don't know much about chickens, but I've heard you'll only have a pecking problem if you keep them in in humane conditions. I hope they feel judged.

 

[Lacy Blues]

HA! Got a related one: a friend of mine lives next to a fella that "free-ranges" his chickens...all over the neighborhood. Well, a few wandered into her yard, where the resident red-tail hawk promptly took one out. My friend (a huge wildlife fan) went outside to take pics of the hawk when the chickens' owner showed up. He saw the chicken, and went inside for a rifle. My friend told him that there was NO WAY he could shoot into her yard, and besides, shooting a hawk is illegal. He tried to convince her that he HAD to shoot it because, "Hawks don't normally eat chickens...that one is acting really weird...it must be rabid." (Needless to say, my friend forbid him from shooting it, and the "rabid" hawk got to enjoy a meal...) Funny how a hawk doing what comes naturally is thought of as being sick...

Maybe he was being like 7biddies. Trying to get her to be on his side and if it was rabid, then it indeed should be shot.

 

[Minchi]

I'm just focusing on being rich... because money DOES solve problems. I'd be able to afford to move to the US and create a whole new range of problems over there LOL

Funny I have been considering the same thing but in reverse.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

lol, that whole situation is just ridiculous... and boy do i understand! the people on my hill have this same sense of entitlement that is so convoluted it blows my mind!
i've been here a dozen years, yet, i'm still an outsider to the one family that lives up here all year round. she's SO nosy and he is always looking for the next person to sue... and the citiots that own the properties on either side of me just tromp on thru my land because it's a much easier access to the state land paths. i have "posted" signs all around, but of course, they don't apply to "them" (?!?!?!?!?!?!)
my advice is to be direct. remind her that this is your home. you would prefer that your relationship with neighbors be pleasant, but, you won't tolerate nonsense on your private property. it's fine if she takes offense, then you don't even have to wave from a distance... then watch... she'll try to make friends with you again in a year, and she won't (or shouldn't be) so pesty.

I have one thing to say for BOTH of you

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

I have one thing to say for BOTH of you

Lol

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I have one thing to say for BOTH of you

Hehehe!! Agreed.

 

[Marty1876]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCHIN !!!

 

[Gomes Bantams]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCHIN !!!

What they said...

 

[Minchi]

What they said...

x3

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

I was told the same thing by a "chicken expert"! I was so horrified that I flat out told her that I don't know much about chickens, but I've heard you'll only have a pecking problem if you keep them in in humane conditions. I hope they feel judged.

Haha I hope it gets them to re-evaluate their statement. I was able to change my MIL's mind after three years and no death by chicken...only a hawk :-(
Now our only issue is that she doesn't like the brown and green eggs I get because they "look dirty".

I don't ever want to smell a burnt beak smell - if its half as bad as the smell of bone burning I've had enough of that from cadaver lab.