Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[sissystonned]

My muder lives on a farm all her life and still swears white chickens = white eggs etc.. also , she is worrid bcause we have a roo we will end up with chicks everywhere/ "but i thought you wanted eggs not more chickens!"

 

[sissystonned]

in many places th world over they pluck them alive. they farm feathers for pillows , bedding etc..

 

[oldrooster]

My muder lives on a farm all her life and still swears white chickens = white eggs etc.. also , she is worrid bcause we have a roo we will end up with chicks everywhere/ "but i thought you wanted eggs not more chickens!"

at least she's not as silly as others who think you need a rooster just to get eggs...... She just doesn't realize you can collect eggs daily to prevent a broody hen to hatch them out!

 

[Texas Wolf]

"How are you supposed to get onto a horse?"

 

[CatSol]

I heard a cute story today I just thought I had to share. There is a teacher that I work with (I am an ASL Interpreter) and she was telling me about her 2 year old son. Her son will not eat any eggs from the store. Organic eggs are better but what he wants is the eggs from Grandma's chickens. She caught her son going up to the chickens and moving it off the nest so he can collect the eggs. Later she seen him fallowing the chickens around the yard... begging them to lay eggs for him. How cute...? So, this year this teacher said that she wants to buy a 2 or 3 chicks that they can raise together. They may have to go to grandma's when they grow-up... or maybe not. He will probably be way to attached to them. Some towns will allow a few chickens with no roos. I told her to check that out. At least one boy growing up knowing were his breakfast is from.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Each year at the fair I'm asked, "What color eggs do the roosters lay?"

My SIL wanted to order more FEMALE duck eggs. They had enough drakes already.

 

[The Chickeneer]

Bahaha Female duck eggs

 

[OR4-hmom]

I know, wish I could tell by looking at them.

 

[silkieloverz123]

Very funny!

 

[bottledchaos]

When I was 13 I raised 10 ducklings, that had been abandoned by their mother, for a family friend that had a farm.
I spent every single day for 3 months of summer vacation with my ducklings. I talked and read to them and they followed me around and sat in my lap.
We had a visitor to our house and I wanted to show off my ducklings. She said after watching them cuddle with me, "When do you plan on butchering them? I'd help if you gave me a couple."

I'm sure they were eventually butchered when they went back to the farm, but really do you ask a 13 year old when they are planning on killing their pet?

Now when my friends ask me when I'm butchering my pet chickens to eat, I tell them as soon as you kill your dog and eat it.

I have a good friend who's lived her entire life in the suburbs and is a complete and total animal lover, to the point of absurdity. I've seen her slap someone for squishing a bug, and I have seen her "rescue" all manner of things from garter snakes to voles - like pick them up and take them to a vet/shelter/rehab facility or drive them an hour out of the city and try to release them "into the wild". She also really loves to visit all her rural friends and do "farm stuff"

. One time she got 6 ancient roos from a friend that she proceeded to butcher (with instruction from someone who's done it before) and she was so proud of herself for it! I figure her heart's in the right place (like at least she's interested where food comes from and how it's raised). The problem is that since that day she is constantly reminding me she's more than happy to take my girls off my hands and how much she's looking forward to eating them. When I told her they weren't laying (moult) she offered to come over the next day and get them! So, one day I'd had enough of hearing about it and told her I would be happy to take her cat for compost when it died and well, she didn't speak to me for weeks!