Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[dntd]

brown eggs are dirty
You can eat rabbits?
There are meat rabbits ,really?
are you afraid of mentaly disturbing your kids when they eat thier pets( refurring to our meat rabbits)
I could never eat a chicken butchered at home
so you have 4 roosters ?( I had one really noticable roo and 3 tiny egg laying bantom hens that looked like hens)
you mean eggs come in differant colors!

 

[suzettex5]

Recently, my mom, who kept chickens before, was talking to me about my flock. She asked what I do with the roosters. I said I let them free range with the hens. She was suprised and said, "What about the eggs? Arent you worried the roo will fetilise the eggs?" I said, "No, Im not worried about it, I hope it happens sometimes, and dont worry about the rest."

She wasnt done though, she kept asking how I keep the roo's AWAY from the EGGS if I didnt want chicks. A weird idea began to dawn on me... I asked her WHY should I worry about the roo being near the EGGS at all? Her response was " Well, wont he fertilize the eggs in the nest if you leave them in too long?"

OMG, I was laughing SO hard on the inside!!! I realised she believed the roo fertilized the eggs AFTER they were layed!!! I gently explained chicken anatomy to her, and she just said "Well, all I know is I kept my rooster locked up away from my hens and their eggs." Apparently, I had failed to convince her that roo 'soldiers' cant pierce their way through a hardened eggshell and all the magic happens inside the hen.

She's so funny, I love her.

 

[PineappleMama]

Thinking that a roo fertilizes like a fish (or if you saw Reign of Fire like a dragon), rather than a mammal... or lizard...

 

[crazyegg]

From the postal worker accepting my eggs to be shipped: will they get delivered before they hatch?

 

[Jeeper1540]

"no they hatch while in transit, so when they get to the destination the person receiving them gets a surprise!"

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[arabianequine]

We let the roos out a few weeks ago to free range cause they were beating up the girls to much and I don't need fertile eggs anymore now.....well my son 17 wakes up the next day I am at work and he is calling off the hook so I finally answer the phone thinking there is an emergancy. He says you have 2 chickens loose....I said yeah I know. I tried explaining all this the day before to him but he did not seem to care why I let them out at that time. Well I told him all that and why we let them loose but he was still concerned with how we will find the eggs from them if they are loose....totally clueless

I told him they are boys and don't lay eggs he kinda snickered and said whatever ok.

 

[pbjmaker]

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In his mind you are the one that is totally clueless. I have a just turned 18 year old that has the same issue. I think it's a boy thing because my 19 year old (girl) and my 16 year old (girl) have already outgrown that phase.

Example quote "Just because you have driven for 25 years doesn't mean you know as much as you think about driving!"

He has never taken drivers ed nor does he have a drivers liscense (his choice) and was trying to tell me that a shared turn lane is in all reality called a "load lane"

 

[4boysmom]

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Hmmm..... I fell for that one too.... only I was 7!!

I distinctly remember everybody watching me from the window - I just thought they were all anxious to see me catch one... didn't think they were actually laughing at me.

When I didn't catch one, my aunt said her salt must be too old and she'd have to buy some new.... and I begged her for weeks to hurry up and get some new salt!

My father-in-law tells my kids this....but think about it, it should work, cause if you're close enough to get the salt on the bird's tail, you should be close enough to catch it

 

[Willjg]

I had to laugh when I saw this thread...

My friends always ask me the same questions, even tho I've repeatedly corrected them.

1. No, don't give me any eggs. I won't know what to do with the chicks when they hatch. (meaning the eggs will just hatch if they are sitting out in the open....apparently the refrigerator is what prevents chicken eggs from hatching. WOW, WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THIS? LOL)

2. Whenever I pick up chicks or ducklings or goslings I've gotten from a hatchery....people will stop and ask me at the post office. OMG what are you going to do with them??? (in pure horror)...I tell them, keep them as pets. And they look at me as if I've just said the most strangest thing in the world in total shock.

3. Chickens aren't pets, they're food. (primarily older people inform me of this no matter what I try to explain)

4. Chickens lay an egg a day, otherwise they're roosters.

5. This happens ALL THE TIME.....when people see waterfowl....they say, 'look at the ducks!' (only Canadian geese....are geese)

6. Chickens eat bugs? (uh, yeah they eat all sorts of things)

7. There are DIFFERENT kinds of chickens?? (apparently there is only one type of chicken, no one knows what the others are)

8. Why would anyone raise poultry in the first place when there's plenty of meat in the supermarket? (that one gets me every time)

9. Keeping chickens is dangerous, did you hear about the avian flu? (meaning all birds are born with the disease and need to be raised in special housing)

10. One of my all time favorites....No, I don't need any eggs....I buy mine from the all natural section in the supermarket.


There are problems tons of things more I've heard, but thats just off the top of my head.
I can hardly believe how some people think.....and its frightening that some have lived LONG lives believing things this way!!!!


Take Care,
Bill.

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

I always hate it when people ask stupid questions. After a while it gets annoying. The one that bothers me is when kids in my class (and teachers) say dumb stuff . This is an actusl conversation i had with someone: Them: "How do you eat those eggs, they have chicks in them"Me I dont have a Rooster. Them"No! All eggs have chicks in them" MeThen what about store eggs? Them "Those are artificial, duh." They were completely serious.