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

[coffeenutdesign]

I have a little folder of pictures on my phone that shows the different conditions between industrial egg production and small farm egg production. It can cause seriously catatonic states in some folks...

I would love to know where you got the pics so I could get some on my phone as well. I have one 'friend' who is such a hypocrite pretending to be all green/organic/environmentalist, but she truly is the epitome of big ag/big business consumerism. They are germaphobes and won't eat my eggs because there is not a "government agency" regulating them. Actually, I think it has more to do with the fact that she grew up poor in a really large family in another country, so now she likes to have "stuff" and put on airs. I would love to show her some factory egg pictures and then pictures of my happy hens free ranging in my chemical free yard, preferably right after having eaten some of her "government regulated" factory produced eggs. Pretentious people irk me.

 

[JeffOeuf]

Yeah, Gomes Bantams was telling me that he had triplets hatch a few days ago. I hadn't ever thought about it before though.

Thanks. I would love to see that happen.

 

[3 Blonde Ponies]

When I was little some big shot photographers from New York City came to our place to take pics of all the wildlife. The sun went in and my mother offered them tea while waiting for better weather. While they were talking they were asking questions about the wild geese and ducks and they came up with this question.

"Now what happens if the mother duck's milk dries up? What do the babies do?"

They laughed at her and didn't believe her when she told them ducks don't make milk!


Devon

 

[oldrooster]

I have a hen that made some weird noise and this woman said that when a hen sounds like a rooster, it means my wife/husband is going to die. She literally chased it with a machete! The worst part is, im not even married -_- atleast the hen lived though lol.

See she's right you have no spouse so therefore you spouse "died".... lol.

 

[coffeenutdesign]

So I'm at Walmart the other day ... getting some dried meal worms for the girls (hens) ... ;-)
Checker: Oh, what are these? Oh gross (once she realized)
Me: They're just dried meal worms...
Checker: So, you going camping?
Me: What? No... you don't understand. It's to feed to our chickens, a treat for them. We don't eat them, the meal worms. (what a loon!)
Checker: Ooooo that's gross, I wouldn't eat any of your eggs! (I didn't offer...)
Me: It's okay, they digest them first....

Walk away now....! ;-)

So she thought that they were okay for people to eat if they were camping, but not okay for chickens to eat if they were gonna lay eggs? Makes perfect sense

 

[Ilovemyduckies]

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

When I was little some big shot photographers from New York City came to our place to take pics of all the wildlife. The sun went in and my mother offered them tea while waiting for better weather. While they were talking they were asking questions about the wild geese and ducks and they came up with this question.

 "Now what happens if the mother duck's milk dries up? What do the babies do?"

They laughed at her and didn't believe her when she told them ducks don't make milk!


Devon

Lol, People from Nat Geo are the worst. But the people shooting Master Chef b-roll (srsly) are pretty bad. I accidentally kicked one guy in the head, well, he was filming me getting on my horse, and way too close!

 

[7 Biddies]

Thanks. I would love to see that happen.

There's a YouTube of twins hatching.

 

[JeffOeuf]

There's a YouTube of twins hatching.

Thanks. Found it. Pretty amazing. I laughed when she was running back and forth between the egg and BYC. She was very gentle and very patient.

 

[cheeka]

i've just about completed a new enclosure for my almost 18 weeks old chooks and my nosy neighbor comes over, i'm sure it's been driving her batty, what we could be doing... making all that noise cutting and pounding pipes...?? and she says, "wow... that's really cool... you could camp out in there... y'know, we didn't think you would keep the chickens."
what? wouldn't keep them? so i asked her why she and her fam-damily thought that... and she said, "i don't know... we just didn't think you would"
i am still speechless. i'm responsible... my animals are all in excellent health and receive excellent care, love and attention... my chickens are no different than the rest except that they don't come in the house... my new enclosure is the BOMB too! i love it!
so

nosy neighbor! next time you stick your dumb ole nose in my business, i'll send BR Betty to bite it off!