Need to rant!! Dumb people!!!

[silkiechicken]

Yeah, go talk with them. I doubt they knew what it was worth. For example, come move to down town Seattle and experience city culture. I bet you'll learn fast why they might not have understood or saw the value of the hay, and in addition, see what they may be more accustomed to.

Best teach them rather than hate them so you can assimilate them! And if they learn to understand and appreciate the country, they can share the appreciation with their city folk friends which would be better for everyone all around. I don't know how many times I've heard things along the lines of, why grow fields of grass if you can build a huge mall or condo...

 

[tmk]

I am a born and raised suburbian, and so is my dh

If dh's job didn't bring us where we live now, we would probably have kept on living our suburbian life till the end without even knowing the life on the farm land.
I'm sure what we do and say make us look 'dumb' and 'stupid' to those local folks at times.
When we went to buy eggs from free ranged chickens at the farmers market for the first time, without thinking, I asked nice chicken farm man if those were the eggs from 'good chickens' lol...
Yes I did sound really stupid

We are in the process of settling down on our 'dream land' in near future and when it happens I sure hope we don't do anything to dissapoint or frustrate our local neighbors.
But when we ever do make mistakes, I hope they choose to laugh with us at our mistakes and not laugh at us behind our back, and will let us know with kind words as friends do so we can learn from them

Good luck on educating the city folks!
Who knows it may be fun and they may become your best students one day

 

[fowltemptress]

That is a shame, but being former city folks they need some time to learn. I feel bad for them, because they were sitting on all that lovely hay without realizing it . . . they missed out much more than you. It's good to remember that what qualifies as common sense to you does not necessarily transfer to the rest of the population.
I've been asked a few questions that make me giggle inwardly, trying desperately not to show how amused I was because they were sincere questions. Like,
"Why do you have so many bulls?"
"What do you mean? There's only the one."
"No, you have more bulls than cows . . . only bulls grow horns, right?"

or,
"I thought goats were male sheep, because they're the ones with the horns, right?" (Something about horns confuse people. I wonder where that comes from?)

Then, of course, there's the ever famous
"Is that a chicken or a rooster?"

There is a reason why they say patience is a virtue . . .

 

[morelcabin]

12 years ago I was a city person moving to the country...I am soooo very fond of my wonderful neighbors, who although they admit they have chuckled more than one at my expense, have taught me everything I know now:>)

By the way...I used to think you only ate chickens (hens) had no idea people ate roosters too, in fact roosters make for a bigger bird...didn't know what roosters were for, honestly:>)
I used to think the difference between a bull and a steer was the breed...
Had no idea there was a differnce between straw and hay...

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

They may go for you working their field. Our neighbor pays us 100 bucks a year to manage our field and they get what every come from it. We just want it cut and we also get a tax break for having it farm land

I would ask them...they may not know what they are doing and would LOVE for you guys to take care of it for them.

 

[DuckLady]

I am going to do my neighbor an injury by making him laugh at me so much. He catches me doing silly things like singing to the ducks, lecturing the chickens, making them all hot cereal in winter, bringing ducks in the house for a bath, rubbing a rooster's wattles, and picking up, shaking and yelling at Hugo Campbell Drake for picking on Miss Matilda Pekin Duck.
He says I am going to be arrested for Shaken Duck Syndrome.

Once I asked how to tell the age of a hen. He said to look at her teeth. So when I came home from an auction wit a hen and asked him to help me open her beak so he could tell me her age, he almost fell down and wet himself.

 

[FrontPorchIndiana]

WOW! I'm going to have to side with the OP. Forty five acres of hay would be pretty darned obvious that it's something and not just grass needing mowed. The cheapest nasty hay around here goes for $5 per bale. I wonder if they've done the math yet? And who on earth would pay for the gas to just mow forty five acres? You'd think they would have just let it be and done nothing to it.

 

[Royicus]

They can do whatever they want with the property they own. Seems like you aren't happy because you missed out on some potentially good cheap hay, which is only in your best interests. To say you hate someone, call them an idiot, an call them dumb for something like this is what contributes to a lot of problems in this world.

In addition, we all learn when we start something new. Attitudes like yours discourage people from starting farming type activities. Relax a bit, be a little more understanding, and maybe you can make friends with them and get some hay next year.

 

[DuckLady]

Quote:
Let me ask you this.....do you plant certain seed to grow hay?
Do you find that a dumb question?
Is it possible these people don't know either and think they need to get rid of the "weeds" before planting hay?

 

[debbyluvschickens]

Once I asked how to tell the age of a hen. He said to look at her teeth. So when I came home from an auction wit a hen and asked him to help me open her beak so he could tell me her age, he almost fell down and wet himself.

LOL thats too funny!