Sometimes I wonder about people

[StupidBird]

Our library finally got a chicken care book (Chickens for Dummies). There's shelves and shelves for dogs, cats, horses, fish, exotic birds, but not chickens. I never even thought about some of this stuff until I wanted decent fresh eggs just like my sister in law (who has ten hens plus rooster in the city). At least I didn't announce "facts" about chickens when I had no clue! I know I don't know! I do really have to work at my explaining skills though. Telling a middle school boy that chickens can lay eggs with out a rooster the same way we women can have our period with out a man in the house. . .

Yup, gotta work on the smugness too. The "I have fresh eggs, nyah nyah nyah!"
I think it's not so much lacking the knowledge, its asserting w.a.guesses and such that get me.

 

[Reinbeau]

When a woman asks me if a hen can lay an egg without a rooster present I just look at her and ask her if she ovulates once a month? The look that usually spreads over her face is priceless!

Of course there's also the issue of honey, which some of us beeks like to call bee spit

The reaction to that statement is just as priceless!

 

[EweSheep]

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[KDbeads]

Still laughing. I guess the reason it really got us was that this is a woman that prides herself on knowledge. Granted most of the other women had never hatched eggs, their husbands usually bought day olds but that's acceptable for the farmers out here. So many predators it's better to just buy them out right instead of going through the whole process.

I told hubby about it last night and he looks at me a little funny and lets me know that until he met me and my mom (who was some sort of poultry expert in high school) he didn't know either

But then again he grew up in the big city of New York and he's had to learn a LOT since we met.

And I've gotten the 'why chickens' question/speech so many times in the last few months it's ridiculous

 

[Whispering Winds]

Don't you think a lot of the OLD timers, not the baby boomers, ran on wives tales? My mom and dad were born in the early 1900's and my mom had some of the most hilarious beliefs. She knew better then, but for years was raised like that . . .so maybe that is why they don't know a lot of the more intimate details of the life of a chicken.

 

[StupidBird]

Sometimes I wonder about people...
What they think when they overhear me on my cell phone asking "did you lock the girls up?"

I'm just waiting to be confronted to explain that.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Yeah, the more people I met the more I like my chickens.

 

[muddypuddles]

I ran into this just a few days ago with my SIL. She wouldn't believe me that hens didn't need a roo to lay eggs! She said "but you had a rooster with them for awhile" Yeah, I rehomed him in APRIL! But she insisted that that was all it took

. My 18 yo DS looked at her and said "but you have eggs-you know, every month something happens...." and she replied it wasn't the same since a baby wasn't involved??? What??? At that point, I gave up.

 

[Holly O]

It's quiet interesting, what people believe, at times.
I feel that we know as much as we do because we took an interest to know. People that don't have a clue to the reproduction life of the chicken, Never took an interest to find out, or decided to believe whatever they heard as it just wasn't that important to them. Old timers came to their own conclusions, through trial and error. weather it was correct or not ..lol