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

[7 Biddies]

7 Biddies, Middleburgh is 87 miles southeast of Rome, little over an hour away. I'm 30 miles southwest of Albany if you go over the mountain, 45 miles if you go around it...

when i bought my house a dozen years ago, the property was named "Brooky", which was dumb, cuz there's no brook... or stream... but there are several pure and 100% potable underground springs. Lucky for me, the people across the street have sulfur water, and the people down the hill have contaminated water from seepage from a dirty deer poop pond... so... my friends renamed it Blueberry Ranch bc my pets all have the last name of
"de Blueberry", but I don't have Blueberries growing here either... so it didn't make sense.

I came up with Almosta farm when we had flooding issues and I signed up to take cattle from the valley in need of placement during times of high water...

I thought Middleburgh sounded familiar.

The name Sweet Asylum evolved because I moved up here after a divorce and began a new career as a school psychologist. My girlfriends came up for visits saying/crying, "I want your life" upon leaving. They began thinking of my home as a sanctuary from the madness of the city life. Sweet Alyssum is an annual flower common up here. So, my name (Alys) and the psychology/"madness of the city" connections came out Asylum. Sweet Asylum just seemed right.

 

[Marengoite]

That's hilarious. My husband (a finance guy) is still averaging costs just for "fun" as we don't sell. I think we might still be in the hundreds of dollars per egg...

My hens (1 Golden comet, 2 Barred rocks, 4 Buckeyes) started laying a couple weeks ago. Mostly the GC. So for labor day I made the family fresh omelets with tomatoes, green peppers, cilantro, and onions from the garden and, of course, our own eggs. By the time I added up the cost of the chicks, feed, supplies, and accessories, I guesstimated we had the best $100 omelets in the world.

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Just today, after PE, i was changing when one of the kids next to me sees my binder, which has a couple of pictures of my farm animals and recent crops, and says,"

" Are you a farmer???"
"Yes i am"
"Well, why do you grow your food?"
"Because i love the taste and quality!"
"Oh, I thought you do that because your poor..."

Okayyyyyyyyyyyy............... Im not poor, for one and what kinda question is that????

 

[cheeka]

It's a classic question, the kind of statement that completely inspired this thread... you grow your own food because you are smart enough and capable enough to do it. you know what your resources are and that they are way better than anything you can find in a store... in 60 years, at your reunion, you'll be there, and lookin' good ... he might not be because he eats all those preservatives and additives... but he'll look amazingly preserved if you dig him up...

 

[7 Biddies]

I agree. It's the old "Why would you do it yourself, if you can afford to buy it or pay someone else to do it? Ergo, you must not be able to afford to buy it." True quality is not something that is on their radar.


"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." ~ Henry Adams

 

[oldrooster]

Just today, after PE, i was changing when one of the kids next to me sees my binder, which has a couple of pictures of my farm animals and recent crops, and says,"

" Are you a farmer???"
"Yes i am"
"Well, why do you grow your food?"
"Because i love the taste and quality!"
"Oh, I thought you do that because your poor..."

Okayyyyyyyyyyyy............... Im not poor, for one and what kinda question is that????

did you hear the joke a laywer a doctor and a farmer all win a share in the lottery the first 2 retire to a life of lugsery and the farmer tells the media he'll keep farming until he's broke again.

 

[UrbanviewFarm]

did you hear the joke a laywer a doctor and a farmer all win a share in the lottery the first 2 retire to a life of lugsery and the farmer tells the media he'll keep farming until he's broke again.

It's just about the truth for a lot of us, too..

 

[cheeka]

UrbanviewFarm, the bird in your avatar is beautiful!

 

[UrbanviewFarm]

UrbanviewFarm, the bird in your avatar is beautiful!  

Thank you!! That's BigBird, he's the guardian of my mixed layer flock. Real sweet bird, great personality about this boy. I don't breed him or anything but I did hatch out a couple of his chicks last month for a meatie experiment..

 

[Marengoite]

I agree. It's the old "Why would you do it yourself, if you can afford to buy it or pay someone else to do it? Ergo, you must not be able to afford to buy it." True quality is not something that is on their radar.


"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." ~ Henry Adams

And there is very little that is any more satisfying than eating fruit from your orchard, berries from your bushes, grapes from your fine, produce from your garden, and meat & eggs from your own livestock. It's a very nice connection to the earth. A lot more than the urban green-niks who only know about where food comes from because they read about it on the internet.