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

[oldrooster]

Well that's weird. How can you sell vegetarian eggs if the chickens are out in a pasture? Pretty sure those chickens love to dig up some fresh worms.

not to mention field mice small snakes and if they find a nest with babby bunnies I wouldn't be supprized if they aren't eaten also...

 

[PrairieChickens]

Well that's weird. How can you sell vegetarian eggs if the chickens are out in a pasture? Pretty sure those chickens love to dig up some fresh worms.

I'm kind of wondering about that myself. Kind of hard to stop chickens from eating meat if you don't keep them closed up in a coop all day.

 

[appps]

My mom was amazed when one of mine ate a lizard,

My poor chooks have to fight the kids for them. The kids were telling me yesterday that they saw a lizard in the coop so one of them had herded the chickens to keep them away while the other 'rescued' the poor lizard. Think the sight of one being ripped in half by two chooks having a tug of war is something they have decided they only need to see once LOL

 

[Onewiththeducks]

I wonder what those chickens were thinking. "That's my lizard!" "No, it's mine!" *rip*

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

All the chicken food I find lately is vegetarian, I don't want hormones or other crap in my chicken feed but if they happen to use beef grease for the fat I won't complain. I don't know what the craze with vegetarian chickens is all about, they like meat and I like giving my girls meat. Also that is the big difference between good tasting eggs and store bought tasteless crap, even the pasture raised $5 a dozen vegetarian eggs don't taste as good as my girls eggs.

Update:
I am not sure if anyone remembers me but if anyone does I started working and, with all the over time I can barely handle one forum now. I miss reading this one but you talk too much for me to keep up.

My girls are laying green, brown, and pinkish eggs now and are finally starting to act like chickens...i.e. eating worms and letting me pet them. My 3 year old neighbor calls my husband and me "Chicken Mommy and Daddy" and I refer to our flock as my husband's harem, he did not know what tussling there tail feathers meant till after they got him to start doing it. He tried to stop but they all come to him the moment he comes outside and squat in front of him so he has to 'pet' them before moving on. They are more affectionate with him as well. I think they know who the male is...

I think the "pasture raised vegetarian eggs" is quite an oxi-moron. I mean they aren't going to look at the grasshopper in their pasture and say to themselves "No, I'd better not eat that, I have to lay these vegetarian eggs after all..."

 

[Minchi]

I think the "pasture raised vegetarian eggs" is quite an oxi-moron. I mean they aren't going to look at the grasshopper in their pasture and say to themselves "No, I'd better not eat that, I have to lay these vegetarian eggs after all..."

One place near me sells Pasture raise Vegetarian chicken for $10 a lb. I ate it and it didn't taste any different from store chicken, I think someone re-branded Tyson.

 

[RachaelS]

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I guess they have to charge so much, so someone can go out and pick all the bugs out of the grass before they let them loose

Here buggy, buggy, buggy.....

 

[farmerChef]

I guess they have to charge so much, so someone can go out and pick all the bugs out of the grass before they let them loose Here buggy, buggy, buggy.....

Maybe they are raised on astro-turf (fake grass)???

 

[7 Biddies]

I guess they have to charge so much, so someone can go out and pick all the bugs out of the grass before they let them loose

Here buggy, buggy, buggy.....

That's just for *organic* vegetarian eggs.

 

[coffeenutdesign]

Well, this isn't something anyone said, but what I saw at the store the other day, along the lines of vegetarian eggs. I was, for the first time in a long time, shopping for a whole chicken. We don't have much selection to choose from so there were only about 6 birds on display from 2 different companies. One of them was claiming "all natural" "no hormones ever" and "fed a vegetarian diet." I started laughing in the middle of the store and could hardly breathe to tell my DD what was so funny. Um, vegetarians don't eat chicken and most meat eaters don't give a crap if their meat eats meat. A vegetarian diet is hardly "natural" for a chicken. You could see the lightbulb in her head go off and several people around me stopped to watch the conversation as I was saying how I felt sorry for those chickens since they aren't vegetarians by nature. Hopefully a few of those people went home to think about it.

ETA: BTW, storebought chicken still sucks and you pay for half the weight in water. Can't wait to try my hand at some Freedom Rangers next year!