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

[catsbully]

i have had customers refuse the blue/green eggs .... no reason given but they clearly don't think they are 'right'!
And I have stopped telling people about the roost as they seem to get grossed out thinking they will crack open their breakfast egg and find a chick in it...I collect my eggs 2x's a day and refridgerate immediately...still no comprehension!!!dumb people!

 

[oldrooster]

i have had customers refuse the blue/green eggs .... no reason given but they clearly don't think they are 'right'!
And I have stopped telling people about the roost as they seem to get grossed out thinking they will crack open their breakfast egg and find a chick in it...I collect my eggs 2x's a day and refridgerate immediately...still no comprehension!!!dumb people!

Most people are just accustomed to brown and white and sometimes when confronted with something new and unusual especially when it involves the food we eat we get a little queasy about it....

 

[Henny Lane]

My neighbor brought her little girls over to visit a few months ago to see our new litter of bunnies. You must understand, these folks do not have ANY pets, so we seem like a zoo to them = ) I also had two Black Copper Marans pullets in a tub in our living room at the time. Her girls (2 and 4) were both excited and wanted to pet the pullets. Her reaction was so ridiculous! She rushed over to her kids and told them not to touch chickens, EVER, because they are all vicious! So vicious lol.

My Marans are my two sweetest chickens. I just shook my head.
The same neighbor that thinks it's ok to come get "free eggs" whenever she feels like it. Umm, lady...I have to buy feed to make those "free eggs". I don't know how to tell her that she should really be paying for the eggs without being awkward...so I just keep telling her they are molting and not laying much...I'm pretty sure she has no idea what molting even is = )
Also the same neighbor who buys organic milk and fills it with strawberry nesquik and puts it in her daughter's bottle at bedtime

I was also sending eggs home with my ex husband when he would pick the kids up for the weekend. When he realized that the roosters were "doing their job", our eggs suddenly became inedible to him lol. I tried to explain that he wasn't going to have chicks developing in his fridge or anything...nevermind.
Some folks just make you shake your head.

 

[ChickyBangBang]

I don't have chicks hatched yet, but I still hear things from people...not much yet though.

The best one wasn't "dumb" just not informed about what it was. But...I told my friend I was getting a Swedish Flower *Hen* (I said hen) She then asked if they were perennials or annuals and if they came in bush form like roses. She also wanted to know the array of colors they came in and if they were bulbs or seeds. I should have interrupted her and corrected her in regard to what it really was, but I was laughing so hard that I couldn't spit it out. She thought it was a flower from Sweden, called a Hen flower. -_-

 

[galanie]

And here I thought it was the EGG you planted!

 

[Sharon2012]

I took a family members' eggs to the market and this woman comes up and asks when they were laid. I calmly told her that the chickens lay 3 doz in a week. NO that wasn't what she meant-- she wanted to know which chicken laid which egg which day. As if I had time to stand in the coop and watch 7 chickens take turns laying eggs. lol

 

[galanie]

I took a family members' eggs to the market and this woman comes up and asks when they were laid. I calmly told her that the chickens lay 3 doz in a week. NO that wasn't what she meant-- she wanted to know which chicken laid which egg which day. As if I had time to stand in the coop and watch 7 chickens take turns laying eggs. lol

There are people that actually do mark that on each egg! And customers LOVE it. I know they love it cause I did it for a couple weeks when I knew all my hen's eggs apart. It's a pain.

 

[cheeka]

looong day, had a lot of posts to read to catch up...!

aoxa, your nephew is adorable, and I think it would be fun to enter it in the calendar contest like jennyworley35 suggested!

I didn't wash or refridgerate my eggs either back in the old days, then I didn't have chickens for 10 years (that'll never happen again!) my new gang aren't laying yet so I get eggs from a lady whose mail I deliver and she doesn't wash them... nothin' like fresh eggs!

to all the new folks! great posts!


I know I just said my gang aren't laying yet... I found this precious perfect brown egg in the nest box this afternoon! it's the same length as a AA battery

 

[Sharon2012]

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How cute. Can't wait for mine to start laying.

 

[oldrooster]

My neighbor brought her little girls over to visit a few months ago to see our new litter of bunnies. You must understand, these folks do not have ANY pets, so we seem like a zoo to them = ) I also had two Black Copper Marans pullets in a tub in our living room at the time. Her girls (2 and 4) were both excited and wanted to pet the pullets. Her reaction was so ridiculous! She rushed over to her kids and told them not to touch chickens, EVER, because they are all vicious! So vicious lol.

My Marans are my two sweetest chickens. I just shook my head.
The same neighbor that thinks it's ok to come get "free eggs" whenever she feels like it. Umm, lady...I have to buy feed to make those "free eggs". I don't know how to tell her that she should really be paying for the eggs without being awkward...so I just keep telling her they are molting and not laying much...I'm pretty sure she has no idea what molting even is = )
Also the same neighbor who buys organic milk and fills it with strawberry nesquik and puts it in her daughter's bottle at bedtime

I was also sending eggs home with my ex husband when he would pick the kids up for the weekend. When he realized that the roosters were "doing their job", our eggs suddenly became inedible to him lol. I tried to explain that he wasn't going to have chicks developing in his fridge or anything...nevermind.
Some folks just make you shake your head.

My father grew up on a dairy farm and they butchered a steer every year for meat and they had a family over for dinner one Sunday and they served some steak from the one they butchered and one of the kids said the wished they lived on a farm so they could eat free steak every day....