Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[CatSol]

I was lucky that I found some chicks for sale that were 8 weeks old. They were Royal Palm and we were going to eat the toms either way... we knew that they would not get that big. We did have one for Thanksgiving and it was the best turkey we have ever had. Then a dog killed 2 of my birds and injured the other hen. She is doing amazing right now and laying eggs like crazy. We are eating those...and they are very good. We will keep her... she is pretty and she has earned a place with us.
This year I do want to try broad-breasted turkey chicks. Thanks for the info... I was planning to get a couple of chicken chicks at that time anyway and this helps.

 

[yinepu]

I was lucky that I found some chicks for sale that were 8 weeks old. They were Royal Palm and we were going to eat the toms either way... we knew that they would not get that big. We did have one for Thanksgiving and it was the best turkey we have ever had. Then a dog killed 2 of my birds and injured the other hen. She is doing amazing right now and laying eggs like crazy. We are eating those...and they are very good. We will keep her... she is pretty and she has earned a place with us.
This year I do want to try broad-breasted turkey chicks. Thanks for the info... I was planning to get a couple of chicken chicks at that time anyway and this helps.

Nothing beats the taste of a home grown turkey for thanksgiving dinner.. they aren't pumped full of saltwater or artificial "butter" to try to improve the taste because they don't need to be. Just feeding them the way you do makes all the difference...

You will find that the broad breasted ones you will be raising also taste better than that ol Butterball at the store.. but a heritage turkey still tops them all for flavor.

good luck with your poults!

 

[CatSol]

REally! hmmm you are giving me ideas. I was thinking about size but if the flavor is even better I will have to consider that. Thanks again and good luck to you as well.

 

[yinepu]

REally! hmmm you are giving me ideas. I was thinking about size but if the flavor is even better I will have to consider that. Thanks again and good luck to you as well.

yup.. heritage have much better flavor.. but you sacrifice the extra large breast that the broad breasted birds have.. so it just depends on what you really want.. extra white meat.. or a better over all flavor

 

[Blackcrest]

My birds lay either blue eggs or greenish eggs. i gave a half dozen of each to a friend in Harrisburg. and they asked me do the girls lay the green and boys lay the blue.... I just looked at them.

 

[yinepu]

My birds lay either blue eggs or greenish eggs. i gave a half dozen of each to a friend in Harrisburg. and they asked me do the girls lay the green and boys lay the blue.... I just looked at them.

Lol.. who lays the Lavender ones?

 

[7 Biddies]

My birds lay either blue eggs or greenish eggs. i gave a half dozen of each to a friend in Harrisburg. and they asked me do the girls lay the green and boys lay the blue.... I just looked at them.

No, Silly! Girls lay pink eggs.

 

[TallChickMagnet]

The funniest things don't really come from City Slickers, but from Country Folk who think that they know it all. I have a guy at church that says that he grew up on a farm with over 1500 chickens, and he keeps telling me that I'm wrong about not needing a rooster to have eggs. I try to show him posts on this site about the issue, and he just call us stupid city farmer that don't really know the truth.

Until recently I thought that I had all hens, and I pointed that out to him. Now I found out that my Cochin is a rooster, so now he uses that against me to prove that he was right all along.

 

[Minniechickmama]

A guy I worked with asked me this when I was explaining the different colored eggs that some chickens lay.....

"So brown chickens lay brown eggs, white chickens lay white eggs? Is your chicken green, is that why her eggs are green?"

Same thing happened to me at the hardware store where my best egg customer works. I dropped some of his eggs off and his manager started telling me his story about the blue and green eggs coming from blue and green chickens. At that point, my suspicions of him being a total BSing moron were confirmed.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I also love getting new Fed EX people when shipping semen. (Horse semen). There's something about city boys and the idea of being anywhere near the semen of another creature that really gets to them.

Ain't that the truth!!! OMG!