The most dumb / ignorant / funny comment you've had about chickens?

[Quack Shack]

Well, that tells me that the old Farmer Says toy was retired way too early!

 

[princess araucana]

I had a friend explain to someone else that the reason my chicken eggs where blue/ green was because of what the chickens ate!

And just the other day, "How do you prevent the chicks from growing in the egg?"

 

[texasbartrambaby]

Well I got one today -

Lady responded to my craigslist to get all my roos. Mind you, I had some NICE roos.

Her question - when do they start setting eggs? Umm, these are roos.

Yes, I know but I have some at home and they've laid about 5 eggs and haven't set them yet. When do they start hatching? I've piled them all in the nest but no one sits on them.

Umm. Ok. This was after she'd just told me she only has 1 roo for 45 hens. I wish I had 45 hens!!!

 

[Rillion]

I have a book called "America's Dumbest Dates." It's a compilation of 500 little anecdotes people have shared about funny/stupid/disturbing experiences they've had with people while dating.

I'm thinking, based on this thread, that maybe there should be a book called "America's Dumbest Ideas About Where Their Food Comes From." Although in contrast to the date book, it might be necessary to accompany each anecdote with an explanation of why it's dumb, because apparently a lot of people wouldn't know!

 

[Rillion]

Quote:
Actually it looks like you can still get it -- and apparently there are a lot of people who should!

 

[Quack Shack]

Rillion, you are onto something. If this were pre-colonial days and we were all sent by ship to setup homesteads, how many of our flock would be culled due to mistaking deer for cows and eating every berry or mushroom they found. Guess us hayseeds would survive somehow!

 

[horsejody]

A friend of mine brought over her sister and niece. The little girl likes to see all of the animals. I gave the kids some eggs to take home so she could have a special breakfast the next day. Her mom took me aside and asked me, "How do you check to make sure the eggs we break open don't have chicks in them?" She thought that fertilized eggs came out of the hen with a fully formed chicks in them. I explained the whole incubation thing to her. The woman is a lawyer. She's a smart lady. It just seems so unreasonable that simple things like this aren't covered in the first grade.

 

[Quack Shack]

Loudly cheep to the egg, hold it close to your head and listen intently for a response. If you don't hear one, you are OK to proceed with breakfast. Black's Law let her down. If she'd spent valuable time reading fiction and watching the nature channel she'd know this stuff! Let me tell you about the bird and the bees and the flowers...

 

[JanieMarie]

Was giving a friend a dozen fresh eggs assorted beautiful shades of brown but they couldn't eat them cuz 'They were watching their cholesterol and brown eggs are too high in cholesterol!'

 

[Camelot Farms]

High in cholestrol?