Have you ever gotten teased about your chickens?

[brooster]

oh yeah i get birdman from my brother oh well i agree, but dont care, im happy

 

[cthrash1]

I haven't been teased yet other than by hubby but my Blazer has the BYC bumper stickers on it. "My pet makes me breakfast" and "It's cheep therapy". Well, my DD is in college and her car was acting up one morning before she left to head back to her dorm. I told her to just take the Blazer. Her friends had fun with that one...She is now the hippie farm girl.

 

[HorseFeathers]

Someone the other day said, "If you have pet chickens how come you eat chicken?" I get that a lot... I just patiently explain about the different breeds and meaties and their life spans and such then start in on them about factory farms and such and how raising your own chickens for meat is really good for them because they have good lives. They usually walk away before I'm done.

 

[NurseNettie]

Where I live, nobody teases. Everyone I've met since moving here was either raised on farm eggs and chickens, or knows someone who was or is. My friends from "back home" react differently. One of my former co-workers can't believe I would ever consider eating one of the animals I've raised---- she has said "what about your birds (referring to my 3 cockatoos)-it would be like eating them". Of course, it's not. I've been tempted to send her pictures of our rooster pot pies- but I don't-- I can't worry about it, and I'm not in the market to change anyone's feelings.

My current co-workers have gotten used to my BYC University Tshirts, all my chicken photos that I've brought in to show them on my laptop, and as soon as the weather clears and it gets warmer-- I'll get my BYC bumper stickers on my new-to-me truck!!

 

[miss_jayne]

everyone calls my husband 'Chicken Man'. no one teases us because they all want meat and eggs!

 

[lovemychix]

I am teased constantly about my chickens. My inlaws mostly. They even tease my daughter, which is a little uncalled for, about eating her favorite chickens. They think I'm crazy but I know they are.

I'm proud to have chickens!!!!!

 

[camjac]

I got started with chickens this past June and my mother thought I was nuts! By the time August came around, she was asking to come over for breakfast on Saturday morning to watch them. She would bring the bagels and I supplied my peach and blackberry jam. She said she loves to watch them free range while we eat on the back porch. They even came up for treats and she loved it! I believe that she thinks I do alot of crazy things but I always give her samples of my projects (hot pepper jelly, eggs, peach jam, blackberry jam) and she gladly takes them!

 

[mom'sfolly]

Not really teased, but I get the blank looks, the "why would you do that" and related reactions. My dearest friends refer to me as the crazy chicken lady, but one friend likes to chicken sit simply because she enjoys watching them. I have one convert, my son's piano teacher is going to get chickens this spring.

 

[ChickenToes]

My mother thinks I'm a bit crazy for having all the animals that I have, but she doesn't tease me about it. Sometimes she calls me an earth mother, but that's the extent of it.

 

[cackle]

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I sometimes get called the same thing. But several people have remarked that they wish they could have chickens but they live in town.


Susan