The DUMBEST thing I've ever heard somebody say about Chickens...READ!

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Never gonna happen up here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We've got Scots-Irish redheads all over the place! Lots of redheaded Scandinavians, too. 


7 Biddies ... formerly known as Redhed, now known as OLD!

Oh, well- thank goodness for that. I was beginning to think I was the only one left. I read it in Cosmo, so figured it had to be true (yes, there was alot of sarcasm there).
Most of my family is Scots-Irish, and quite a few of us are redheads. So, here's another ignorant comment I get alot (since alot of my family is from/lives in W.Virginia) You all don't really marry your cousins/brothers/ect, do you? WHAAATTTT???
Nikki

 

[7 Biddies]

Oh, well- thank goodness for that. I was beginning to think I was the only one left. I read it in Cosmo, so figured it had to be true

(yes, there was alot of sarcasm there).
Most of my family is Scots-Irish, and quite a few of us are redheads. So, here's another ignorant comment I get alot (since alot of my family is from/lives in W.Virginia) You all don't really marry your cousins/brothers/ect, do you? WHAAATTTT???

Nikki

Well, it's good enough for royalty and the Roosevelts (FDR and Eleanor) so what's wrong with that?

 

[oldrooster]

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I live in Indiana and I have an aunt and an uncle both blood relation married distant cousins. But that being said with so many children by unwed/divorced and sperm/egg donor parents, not to mention adopted and long-term foster care children how do these people know they are not actually having an "adult" relationship with their half siblings and not know it...... That sounds more gross to me than a distant relative, and less possibility for genetic problems also....

 

[Bawk]

Okay we've gotten some pretty doozy remarks about chickens:

The common one is (with our first flock): "You don't have a rooster? You won't get nary an egg."

Another silly one: "They are brown eggs? Eww gross. I can't eat brown eggs, I can only eat white eggs."

With our first mixed flock, some Ameraucanas: "We want more eggs but can you paint more of them blue for us?"

Then with our 3rd flock which had a rooster... Long dialogue:
"I see you have a rooster now." "Yes"
"Do you plan to get baby chicks?" "Maybe later"
"Well if you do you won't get any eggs for 7 months." Me: "Yes we will."
"No you won't get any for 7 months." Me: ????
"Because they'll all be walking around pregnant." Me: (Stunned, trying to not laugh)
"Well then for 5 months." Me: (still incredulous but trying to not embarrass the older man who was our guest)
He: "Well then however many months it takes." Me: Chicks are birds, not mammals.
He: Well how many months then? Me: (About to choke): "Um they are like robins, you know they lay eggs"
he: (silent, red faced)

Okay that's best one here.

 

[holm26]

holm 25 said they were very smart birds

 

[Farkha Laziza]

My mother was actually quite surprised when I told her that mayonnaise is made primarily from oil and raw eggs. It being white, she just assumed it was some sort of dairy product.

 

[SNJchickens]

I've had a lot of weird comments about my eggs from "they taste too strong" to "I can't eat anything that comes out of a chicken's butt" however, the latest comment is even more ridiculous.

I went out to collect eggs. There were three nestled in the hay. I asked the neighbor who had accompanied me if she'd like the eggs. She said yes so I told her to pick them up. WELL, she touched one and dropped it. It was WARM. She said she didn't want warm eggs because they will have salmonella or some awful bacteria.

Er, the egg just came out of a warm chicken?!?!?!

I didn't even bother to try logic. I just laughed until she left the yard. Don't worry, I have no intention of refrigerating my hens!

 

[Beekissed]

 

[microchick]

My funniest chicken comment came one evening while I was at work and got elected to phone in a carry out order for our dinner. I asked the girl that answered the phone if they had Buffalo Wings. There was a long pause and then, I kid you not, this sweet young thing responded. "I don't thing so. Buffaloes don't have wings." I remember literally taking the phone receiver from my ear and staring at it in disbelief. The girl had made the statement with the same commitment of a person telling a 3 year old "That big yellow ball in the sky is the sun and it comes up every morning." I proceeded to somehow keep a straight face and explain to the poor girl what Buffalo Wings were and after my explanation she said "Oh, we don't have those".

As for the old question of where does food come from, we had a customer come into our business once who worked in a Federal Prison overseeing inmates who worked in the dining area. One day he asked one of the 'bad boys' where he thought food came from. The man's honest answer, from the store. Well, where does the store get the food? The guard asked. Why from the back of the store of course, was the response.

Makes ya really worry about the future, doesn't it?

And our friends wonder why we live on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere.

 

[wvhomesteader]

Oh this is so funny! We are raising some broilers in succession and have 16 week old chicks and another 26 due to hatch around May 19. I was telling a gal at church about our chickens when another, much older (70s?) lady interrupts and says, But dear, what will you do once it's their time to be with The Lord? We will eat them. 42 chickens?! How long will that take? About 6 months, I said. Six months?! What about your kids and coming to church or taking them to school? I'm not sure I follow? I asked. If it will take you six months to eat these birds, bless their hearts, how will you have time to get the kids to school or do your other duties? I mean it will give us about 6 months of chicken to use for preparing meals. We won't be sitting at the table for 6 months. Oh. So where do the chickens come from? Being that she was older I supposed I assumed she would have a clue where food came from. I said we raised them at our house. I am flabbergasted by the ignorance of many people.