Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[FluffyColor]

a friend: "A rooster is a male chicken? Really?"

No, that's a bull. A rooster is a female pig.

 

[Q9]

This thread... It... Frightens me.

Honestly, most of this stuff I knew before we ever had chickens. How do people not know this?!

 

[Payette]

Quote:

This thread is cracking me up!!!!

 

[chixelandpixel]

i was showing this picture of my silkie Sweetheart to the ladies at church.

three of them said " oh you have a cute GOAT..."
Sometimes i wonder about the people i know...

 

[mama24]

I think these aren't city slickers, they're people who are a few bricks short. lol

 

[cluckcluck42]

"Whoa, you can eat the roosters?"

What? Of course. Can you only eat female pigs, cows, or sheep? I thought it was an amazingly dumb question and was shocked.

 

[ChickLover98]

A story about my first experience with my new rooster:

My pap insists that the rooster will fly back to his old home if we let him out to free range. I insist that he will stick around with the hennies. My pap keeps arguing and tells me not to let him ouit. I open up the coop door and out prances the rooster, at first staying near the door, then going out to dustbathe with the hennies. Who proved who wrong in that situation???

 

[pookiegoldman]

"So do ya'll have to drive around in boats down there??" -

 

[SeramaLife]

I was exhibiting at the county fair this past week, and several people thought my silkies were rabbits.

Also, I was talking to a man about chickens, when he stopped me, and asked why I was calling my chickens hair feathers. According to him, EVERYONE knows that chickens have hair, and feathers come from somewhere else.

 

[cmjust0]

Been asked several times about what age dairy goats come into milk.....not really an "age" question, though. Usually try to answer as politely as possible by saying that they're bred according to weight, not age, and that gestation is about 5mo.

If the lightbulb doesn't come on once breeding and delivery are mentioned (...about a 50/50 chance, I've found...), I'll continue with "...and, of course, they come into lactation after they deliver the kids." At that point, most folks will either say "Oh, of course!" or something like that, or you can kinda tell they're thinking it and are a little embarrassed to have asked the age thing in the first place....but sometimes...

...sometimes people actually go "Oh...so they have to have kids first?"

Um, yes.

I've found that if answer that question with "Most of the time, yes" or something like that and you find yourself trying to explain the concept of a 'precocious milker' to a townie, you learn quickly that it's waaaaaay better to just answer with a simple "Yes" and let it go at that.