Omg!! Such Stupid People One Meets!!

[Okie Amazon]

I really hate the Easter chick/duck thing, knowing most people won't make the required accommodations for the babies, but mostly because of the promotion of the idea of living things as expendable/disposable.

OTOH, my green, blue, red and pink Easter chicks that I got every year always grew to adulthood and were taken to the public market for my movie money for the summer. At least my Mother made me responsible for them and their care, otherwise I would never have had them at all.

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

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Hope this helps.


Acronym Definition
BRE Business Reply Envelope
BRF Brain Research Foundation
BBQ Be Back Quick
QVC Qatar Vinyl Company
ETC Ethiopian Tourism Commission

 

[f8thnjc]

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This is from a male...Rule 6 - that word should be Flagrant, but I realize Rule 5 precedes it....

Ahahahaha!

 

[annaraven]

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I erased my snotty comment.
The people here are of many different levels of experience. While you may see a post that you consider ridiculous, some of us benefit from those simple questions that are asked. That's how we learn. Frankly I'm quite lost when the people here go into acronym mode and start spouting off with BRE, BBF, BBQ, QVC, etc... But this is how we learn. Reading and asking stupid questions. But we are here, we do care for our chickens and desire to learn more. Just ignore us until we're smart enough not to annoy you.

I like the idea of helping new owners if the store is open to the idea and you have the time. Post the website on the list and tell them they can learn more here.

Just remember that unfortunately you can't save them all. We've gotten tons of dogs and cats dropped at the end of our driveway. Have to convince my wife that we can't keep all of them.

Bad parent of 14 bantams.

There's ignorant and there's stupid. Ignorance can be cured. Stupid can't. Being here and asking questions isn't stupid, it's the cure for ignorance.

 

[gryeyes]

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Not necessarily. Believe it or not some people just don't like kids. Period. It's no offense to you, I'm sure you kids are lovely and well behaved. It's still possible for someone to not like them, just because they're kids. And as for "you used to be one", well, my mother says I was born a cranky old lady

Thank you, Knittycat. I HAVE been around "the right ones." I don't like kids. Period. No offense to anyone with lovely and well behaved children. I had an open house, once, inviting co-workers and specifically stated "Please do not bring any children - there will be nothing for them to do and I don't like them touching my things. My pets are not used to children and I don't like to stress them out any more than you appreciate having your children upset. While we're at it, I won't be serving any liquor, but you are welcome to bring your own."

And of course, one couple brought their kids, AND were shocked I didn't have any booze in the house to offer them. They were lucky someone else paid attention and brought a bottle, which they shared. I turned on the TV set for the kids. Yup, they were bored, but I didn't go out of my way to entertain kids I told the parents they shouldn't bring 'em.

But, back to not liking kids. People are shocked that I don't even pretend to like them. I'm not MEAN, or abusive, I just don't have the patience to deal with 'em, because they are raised by somebody else and have different values; I respect most folks' rights to raise kids the way they want to and my meddling with that process would be impolite to them.

It's just that human young are not anywhere near as adorable to me as are immature animals. So I tend to protect the latter and avoid the former.

 

[queenbeezz]

Wow, I'm astounded at the responses to my letter to the lady! I wrote it mainly to vent, I had just gotten back from TSC and my Irish was still up.

Thank you all for your responses. I was feeling a bit ashamed at my response to her (Mother's code of Southern politeness kicking in). I realize now that I was right but unfortunately, as many have stated, you just can't fix stupid.

Now for the good news! I went up tp TSC today and guess what! She didn't buy the chicks! When I told her that I hoped she had plenty of newspaper because they poop a lot, she was totally turned off. Asked the manager if there was a less poopy breed.

Like ya'll said, ya can't fix stupid!!

 

[SassyKat6181]

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Wow, I thought this but didn't have the nerve to say it. Kudos!

I did months of researching on the web and here on BYC before I got my first set of chicks. I have asked plenty of questions along the way. We are not chicken know-it-alls and have no way of learning other than to ask. It is the ones who don't want to learn that are stupid and ignorant.

Comments like the one above are what make people shy away from asking questions, for fear of being stupid, and that makes YOU the ignorant one!

 

[TNkidsnextdoor]

Wow, some of you are kinda scary! LOL. You're gonna hate me. I am one of those people who never should have had children (drug addict) and probably shouldn't have done this chicken thing. But I am so so lucky that people came along side of me and helped me be a better parent, and I have such awesome kids now. They would never throw a fit in a store or whine for something, not even a pack of gum (except maybe when they were two, but that's normal, and I didn't give in--but that was because I had tons of support in learning to parent them). I hope that even if I ask stupid questions, at least some of you might help me answer them. I think I did get my kids the chicks a little out of guilt, because I have to say no to so many things, pretty much everything, and they have been asking for over a year. But they didn't throw fits for them, and they are doing such a good job caring for them. But we are fully prepared to research everything we can, and I made sure I had materials to build the coop and all that first. I know of one thing I have done stupidly so far, but at the advice of a farmer, so at least I thought I was researching correctly--I ordered double the number of pullets I thought we needed, thinking about half of them would be males---yikes, and duh---but hopefully those of you like the OP can bite your tongues and tell me nicely how to care for them, or point out if it gets to the point where I can't.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

To be very clear about my statement...I am not referring to folks "asking questions" (although a simple, quick search could easily answer most of them). I am speaking of folks who DON'T do their homework before keeping chickens and then seem to want comfort from others when their birds die because of just poor management. The topics here are rife with just such topics...just things that make you go "Really?"

Before we purchased our first birds, I came on BYC and read A LOT!!! I didn't find it necessary to ask a lot of questions,...I just did searches for every question I had and there was much great information. Then we got our birds and I felt that we had a basic knowledge of their needs. I have continued to learn over the last few years and I'm sure I still don't know everything.

The backyard chicken community is huge and varied and there are many with vast amounts of knowledge here.

 

[NYREDS]

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Let me add, since I was also labeled as ignorant, I was also referring to the volumes of bad advice available here from people who just plain don't know what they're talking about. Doesn't stop them from giving advice though.