Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[silverlining]

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yeah, but you should know the difference between rabbits and chickens no matter WHERE you grow up!!! thats just neglecting a childs education haha

 

[agnes_day]

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yeah, but you should know the difference between rabbits and chickens no matter WHERE you grow up!!! thats just neglecting a childs education haha

yeah, and its more fun to make fun of city slickers!

*i live in the city so i can say that*

 

[sparkles2307]

Yesterday at my nephews b-day party one of our neighbors, NEIGHBOR - as in, owns horses and guineas and crap - tells my husband that our ducks wont be ablet o have babies because we dont have them on a pond and "ducks can only 'do it' in the water" OMG

this guy lives on a farm for cripes sakes! THAT was funny

 

[Cajunsamoan]

Oh my gosh! I've heard people say that too! I have even brought a couple of them out to the duck pen to prove them wrong.

 

[tazzy]

My favorite line, which I heard many, many times when I lived in Los Angeles and someone asked where I was from and I told them Kentucky was, "Really??? You don't LOOK like someone from Kentucky!"

That's a backwards compliment if I ever heard one! I was often tempted to say, "Yeah, I knocked the horse crap off my shoes on the way in!" I actually did say that a few times...the urge got the best of me in the end!

 

[warmfuzzies]

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I didn't know that...

Sorry.

Well, in your defense, you are a farmer, I am a hunter. Not everyone knows the difference between antlers and horns. What makes the above situations bad is that the ignorant person was willing to display said ignorance on national television as a lesson for all - spreading the ignorance.

Here is the lesson for the day,

Antlered animals (deer, elk) shed their antlers every year. I know it is hard to believe, but those huge elk actually grow those huge antlers in about 6 weeks' time (July/August). Then over the next month they harden and become their macho trophies as they spar for the right to mate with the females (Sept). In the late winter/early spring (March), they shed their antlers and anyone who happens into the forest and looks can just pick them up. It takes a little know how to know where to find them, but those who make art and furniture out of antlers make their way into the forest each spring for their wares.

Horned animals (cows, sheep) keep their horns and they continue to grow over their lifetime.

Here is the bonus information/trivia for the day. Antelope (our native pronghorn) have a combination of both. They have a "horn" that continues to grow over its lifetime, but also grow a sheath/antler over them that they shed every year.

And now you know.

I now return you to the original intent of this thread.

~Yeah. we have three sets of antelope horns that have the sheath falling off right now. I don't know what to do about it. If you do, can you PM me? They got some kind of bug. ~

I was going to add, that I think the sheath is made from hair like a rhinos horn. Very cool!

And, even when people 'trpohy hunt', that is, try to find a big buck, I dont know anyone who isnt after the meat as well. The big buck just adds to the challenge, as they are MUCH harder to find. Another tidbit of info for the non hunters.

 

[me&thegals]

True, true. My husband is a trophy hunter. Everywhere I go in the house, there are eyes

But, we eat ALL the meat. The only time we don't eat something he has shot is if he has had to "put down" a badly wounded animal. He will do that, even if he has to use up his tag to do so.

We're getting bees, lots of chicks and turkeys, so it will be fun to hear what people come up with.

Gotta say, though, that I would be a total dummy in any city, construction site, factory or office. So... And I was a total dummy on everything we have ever started (gardening, bee keeping, chicken raising) until I picked up more and more info.

 

[sparkles2307]

Wow I grew up in a dead animal museum. I think we have one of everything on land and in water hanging on our walls... but my dad taught us that you NEVER kill something you arent going to eat... He has a lot of nice trophies and big bucks but never wasted anything... to me its quite normal to shoot something for its rack size, the assumption that you will eat it is just there...

 

[Chickenmaven]

People are ignorant of the natural world & make little effort to help their kiddos along in that regard. We were on vacation in a tropical climate. I saw a little fellow about 7 yrs. old point at a lizzard & exclaim, "Mommy, look - a Gieco." (Like the insurance co.) She didn't even correct him.

 

[17roses]

O.K. I have got to tell you guys about my most embarassing moment.

Just out of highschool I went to Alaska with a church group. We went to a little village called Angoon. The paster was a native Alaskan Indian. He owned a boat and offered to take us crabbing, he had to go out there to get our dinner anyway.

So here I am in a fishing boat with a Native Alaskan Indian and the rest of my youth group The paster pulls up the crabpot and measures the crabs and puts the ones he is allowed to keep in a bucket next to my feet. And as the first crab hits the bottom of the bucket, I yell...

OH NO, DONT DROWN THEM!

You could hear a pin drop. The Native Alaskan paster didnt say anything he just stared at me, then shook his head and continued his work. It was about 3 minutes later I realized my obvious mistake.