I just got called a chick murderer! *little rant*

[Southernbelle]

My whole family is Catholic and when my sister was here to visit, she had a hard time when she found out I eat (and serve) fertile eggs. She felt like it was chicken abortion or something.

I tried explaining to her how there is no embryo until it's incubated, but that didn't convince her. Finally, in exasperation, I just said, "We eat chicken all the time - what does it matter?" That finally got through to her - we eat Cornish game hens (which I told her were only about 2 weeks old when they're processed), we eat lots of chicken from the grocery and we eat eggs - why did it matter if the eggs were fertile when we were going to eat chicken regardless?

In addition, my husband would kill me if I incubated ALL the eggs my chickens laid.

 

[speckledhen]

You know, when I was a kid in High School, we had to read "The Red Pony" by Steinbeck. I distinctly recall in that book that Billy Buck saying to the kid, Jody, that the blood spot was the spot the rooster leaves. Of course, it was completely crazy, but that stuck in my head. Wonder if folks are getting lots of wrong ideas from the classics, LOL!

 

[Whispering Winds]

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So THAT is where those nuggets come from . . .I always knew chickens didn't have them just hanging around to be cut off.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

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I recently had a customer call me up and ask me that very same thing about fertile eggs. It must be some kind of urban legend...That was the first time I had ever heard THAT idea.... I assured her that her father-in-law didn't know what he was talking about.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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My mom always said it was because the hen got scared when the egg was forming. She would be 103, so I would just imagine this is an old wife's tale.

 

[Attack Chicken]

Some kids are just weird

They don't even seem like they wanna be in AG class!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Ha ha ha! I thought that my high school "back in the day" was the only one who called a group "goat ropers..." Of course, that was what we called the rival school.

 

[canada-goose]

That's funny!

 

[aprophet]

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it is better to ignore a fool then to engage them , they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experiance

 

[Attack Chicken]

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Ha ha ha! I thought that my high school "back in the day" was the only one who called a group "goat ropers..." Of course, that was what we called the rival school.

haha