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

[animallover505]

i love finding warm eggs. especially now that it is getting cold. keep one in each pocket and my hands stay nice and toasty! never gave it a second thought to crack open and cook up a nice warm egg... except for hard boiling, they don't peel well...

not dumb, just really cute ~ I gave an 18 pack of eggs to my mechanic bc he stayed late one night last week to put my studded snow tires on my car. the pack had 6 brown, 6 cream and 6 blue. it was quite pretty if I do say so myself... today, I stopped by to have something checked and his daughter came out with about a dozen egg cartons for me and asked me if she could have all blue eggs in the next dozen.

awww

 

[oldrooster]

The schools really don't teach this unless you study poultry in an ag class. There's a lot you have to get outside the classroom to learn.

So true they don't even teach how they mate at all until I was well out of school did I ever find out how chickens mated, I thought it had to do with the combs and waddles and such. I hadn't been around chickens or turkeys other than seeing them in pens at the fair grounds. I was sure they had intercourse some how and without knowing their anatomy, seeing them outside of 1 chicken in 1 pen how are you to know. BTW I was sure they never fertilized like fish, because I figured the shell was too thick for anything that could be deposited on it to soak in to it without a good chance of being washed off or such so that would mean a sure case of a speicies dieing off real fast....

 

[oldrooster]

I grew up eating eggs that we'd just gathered when visiting our grandparents, so I never thought anything of it. My wife is from Korea and she was so excited having warm eggs. (Spoiler alert. This next part may gross out some folks who believe eggs have to be cooked over hard to be healthy.) She likes to use a chopstick to poke a hole in one end and drink the egg while it's warm, then lick some salt from her hand. I can't bring myself to do it, but I don't mind my wife eating it like that.

When I was about 5 I refused to drink milk for over a year my folks thought I probably had an allergy to it since I had some other food allergies as a young kid and they figured that somehow my body knew not to drink it (I was fine with ocasional dairy products but refused to drink milk and cut back on ice cream and other dairy products meaning even though I still asked for ice cream it was cut by more than half and asked for a hamburger instead of cheese burgers like I had wanted at fast food restaraunts and at home when we grilled out). Saying that I used to eat soft boiled eggs and poached/fried eggs over easy and my parents couldn't figure out at about 8-10 years old I wanted only eggs with firm yellows I personally wonder if it wasn't one literal bad egg turned me

 

[NativeBeauty]

1. Are green eggs seasonal, like Oberon?? (I live near a local micro-brewery).

2. Do chickens have a vagina?

Where DO the eggs come from?
3. Are you sure there are no baby chicks in these eggs? (I have no rooster, so I am 100% positive)
4. Your chickens look sick (moulting season)...maybe you should just take them to the pound.

(not sick, they shed their feathers just before winter- its the way of Mother Nature).

 

[farmerChef]

1. Are green eggs seasonal, like Oberon?? (I live near a local micro-brewery).
2. Do chickens have a vagina?  Where DO the eggs come from?
3. Are you sure there are no baby chicks in these eggs? (I have no rooster, so I am 100% positive)
4. Your chickens look sick (moulting season)...maybe you should just take them to the pound.  (not sick, they shed their feathers just before winter- its the way of Mother Nature).

Your chickens are sick, so you should drop them off at a shelter??? :/ do they have any animals?

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Your chickens are sick, so you should drop them off at a shelter???

do they have any animals?

God, i hope not.

 

[PrairieChickens]

^ Seconded.

 

[DaphneNL]

Most heard is that people really think every egg yolk is a baby chick that didn't develop. So some of them think they kill a baby when eating an egg.
And that also makes them think a hen can never lay eggs without a rooster around.

It helps that I'm born and raised in the city, so most of my friends are too and still live there. So they can ask really weird questions.
One of my friends was taking a close look at one of the roosters (from the outside of the coop, off course, "'cause roosters are very dangerous").
After some minutes he concluded that a rooster has all those extra feathers so he can hide his male parts and keep them warm.
His girlfriend thinks a hen is traumatized every time I collect eggs because I "kind of steal her babies she was so looking forward to". She said this while I collected the eggs from my Lakenvelder chickens. Lakenvelder chickens will never sit on eggs because they really couldn't care less, but my friend was sure my hens needed some kind of counseling anyways.

 

[DaphneNL]

I think you can guess what girlfriend said when she once visited my chickens in good old moulting season....

 

[PrairieChickens]

Most heard is that people really think every egg yolk is a baby chick that didn't develop. So some of them think they kill a baby when eating an egg.

As I'm reading this, I am literally in the middle of eating a sunny-side-up egg with a tell-tale bullseye on it, trying to quash my guilt. lol