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

[featherbaby]

After all these comments, how can people accuse chickens of being dumb????? After all, it isn't the size of the brain that counts, it's how you use it !

I have Cockatoos whose brain isn't much bigger than a chicken's, and they are considered one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Yep, right up there with dolphins and primates. Anyone who's ever had a larger parrot knows they think and reason (and plot), have emotions and exhibit exceptional abilities to manipulate (some even use 'tools').

Obviously these people slept through biology 101 class and never watch "Discovery" or "Animal Planet". Tell them to ask their kids.
If we ever have to be self sustainable (God forbid), these people are gonna starve!

 

[juliect]

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We do?!? I am gettin' me a brown cow today!! A DARK brown cow, because I like extra chocolate in my milk.

 

[Goat_Walker]

i couldnt help but read through all these posts!These aer hilarious! Keep them comming! I get alot of the same comments about my ducks.
"so why do you have ducks in the first place? all they do is eat and poop"
I looked over and gave the 34 y/o man a smile.
"because they have fluffy butts. Thats why."

End of discussion.

 

[dipence71]

my MIL who use to raise chickens allot a long time ago said as I was explaining I didn't have a rooster that "oh you wont get egg till you have a rooster hun" I did a double take and looked at her to see if she was serious and I almost busted up laughing

but I controlled myself....And explained I would still get eggs just not fertilized ones. And she was like "really...in all my years I never new that."

And they always made fun of me not knowing something farm related.

I went home and laughed my butt off

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I was raised the most city girl ever until I was 7 then moved to farm country and it was the first time I really saw farms or farm animals. One morning while in our camper (we were fixing up the house and were staying in the camper lol) I was looking into the very over grown yard and saw "a monster"
I started beating my dad on the head and screaming monster monster....It was a banty rooster......I was only 7 then.
But for her growing up on a farm and not to know I didn't feel quit so dumb anymore LOL...
Gotta love karma...

 

[Rillion]

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I think when you domesticate an animal and make it a food source, you make it dumber over time-- nobody needs the animals they're going to kill to have a personality, and it's probably better if they don't since then you'd have a harder time raising them and feel guilty about eating them. Animals domesticated for companionship, however, seem to get smarter-- or at least, better at appearing smart in ways humans can detect.

Wild birds can be very bright since they have to fend for themselves-- crows can drop pebbles into a bottle with a low level of water in it until the level rises high enough for them to drink. England apparently had to stop delivering milk bottles with aluminum tops on them because titmice would peck right through the tops to get at the milk. I wouldn't be surprised if wild chickens are a lot brighter than the domesticated kind. But you know what? I don't need a pet chicken to be a genius. I need them to be cute and funny and lay eggs, and they can definitely do that.

Ferrets? No thank you-- too smart! Smarter animals are harder to control...they figure their way out of cages and destroy things before you can notice. Give me a dumb pet, please.

 

[silkie freak 22]

my aunt thought that chickens had to get "pregnant" to have chicks they lay an egg and it hatches right then and there. she argued all day with my 6 year old cousin until my parents got there and told her i was right. it was funny she was real embarassed

 

[TexasVet]

I've got a couple....

My MIL swears that when she was a kid the chickens next door dug under the fence to attack their dog.

And these from someone who wanted to buy hens from me (I didn't sell her any!):
What's that chicken? ...A bantam.
What are they for? ...For laying eggs and setting.
What do they set on? ...On eggs.
Why would they do that? ...To hatch them.
And my personal favorite.... Oh my god, what is that rooster doing to your hen?

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[warmfuzzies]

"Oh I never knew roosters actually crow!!"

Um, no its actually a conspiracy to keep them from letting city folks have chickens.

"Do you put your eggs in the fridge to keep them from hatching?"
"No, they are just the same as regular eggs."
"They dont have chicks in them?"

This from a 14 year old girl who lives in the country and has goats, etc. I think we need to stop asking what the schools are teaching and ask what the PARENTS are teaching.

 

[write2caroline]

OMGOSH
My brother in law- who has a degree in business or something - Loves to lecture me on everything he feels he is an expert about - He is also married to, I swear it, The dumbest woman on the planet!

So I am enduring the visit with the Mother in Law and they call - They decide to lecture me about the chickens. - They have never had chickens - but they did stay at a Holiday inn express once.....

Obviously Mom in law no approves of chickens! "Nasty dirty things!!!!" - Can't win them all! And has given her son - My brother OUTlaw an earfull about my chicken endeavors.

So he proceeds to tell me how I am doing everything wrong....what was I thinking ....And then the gem:

"You realize, if you keep a rooster, you are going to be overrun by chickens in a few months!"

Case in point - I have 2 chicks 4 weeks old and have 4 coming in July - day old chicks of which one is going to be a rooster. He is assuming that my " clearly in his opinion mediocre" knowledge of chickens - may allow me to be successful in raising them to adulthood, and in the vague and unlikely case that I actually accomplish raising the birds that I will not be equipped to manage them in a responsible way and allow the hens to all go broody and breed irresponsibly.

What? Does he not think that by removing the eggs as they are laid - that the chickens are going to hide them and secretly go broody and hatch unauthorized eggs and we are not going to notice the chicken is sitting on the eggs for 21 days?

Me thinks he is mistaking chickens with mammals. Ferel cats or rabbits perhaps, mice......

I go out of my way to say nothing but neutral statements to my Mother OUTLAW. Everything she hears turns to gossip to her other children. And I am simply amazed that Mt St. Marys had a poultry program as part of the School of business - because why else would he be such a freaking expert on an animal he has never owned or cared for! Or Maybe those ads about Staying at a Holiday Inn Express are true and it does allow their guests to be all knowing!!!!

And for the record: I spent years in 4-H - had chickens in College that I successfully raised without a clue for biology, Graduated from San Jose State #1- not near the top of my class - I was the pinnacle. Military History with a minor in Quantum Physics. I don't do anything without going overboard researching and learning. But my husbands family thinks I am a doodle head - totally irresponsible and rash! I don't claim to be, in any way shape or form, a chicken expert but I was smart enough to find this board for help!

LOL
Caroline
JAX FL

 

[Sitka]

I have taken to calling my "all-knowing" nephew "Kia," short for "Know It All."

Call your brother in law this and see if he can figure it out!

Your Holiday Express line had me rolling!