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

[Mrs MIA]

I had a daycare teacher call me from clear across the country, explaining to me that something happened with their hatch and she was sure she wasn't going to get any chicks. She didn't want to disappoint the children, so she asked me if she could get some hatching eggs from me. I said sure, but wasn't she running out of time...school is out for the summer in a week?

She said no, she didn't want eggs to hatch in 3 weeks... she wanted me to express ship eggs that were due to hatch in the next 2 days!! To my credit, I only coughed... I choked down a laugh... and politely informed her that the last 3 days were critical, and that shipping them would surely kill them all. But, in her defense, I suppose it never hurts to ask. I also suggested that she try to find someone a little closer. We did have one teacher come from the next town that picked up eggs that were due in 3-4 days, but she had a converter for her car and could keep an incubator or heating pad going. Seems to me she DID get some to hatch...

 

[Quack Shack]

And all POULTRY is obviously part of the whole barnyard mammal fixation. That's a hoot! I have bantam ergo I want goat cheese!

Yes, I'm also called hippy by coworkers. Yes, I cut a fashion statement in the barnyard with my cashmere, pearls and heels. I'll just scoop some poop, comb the hayseed out of my braids and shuck off these feedsacks before I ride my ass into the city parking deck. Yeehaw!

One from yesterday from a 42 year old man. "I don't know what you THINK that rooster is doing but he's not mating. He's just bullying the smaller birds." (How this man procreated is a mystery. Guess the egg was just hijacked and whisked away to a special garden where his daughter grew up under a cabbage leaf.)

Better go hide the beer, Maude, its Spring and chicks only hatch in the Spring.

 

[vfem]

Here's one I got the other day actually...

Them: "So are those normal chickens? Their feathers are like hair or fur?"
Me: "I get that a lot, they are silkie chickens, their feathers are just different then other breeds and they are a little smaller."
Them: "Ok, so these chickens don't lay eggs then?"


How did they come up with silkies don't lay eggs when thats not even what you asked??!!?!

 

[vfem]

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Sorry noticed you were in Winston Salem... my husband is there working today! Just wanted to say "Hi Chicken Neighbor!"

LOL

 

[Quack Shack]

Hi ya, neighbor! I'd have been tempted to say Silkies are a rare variety of parakeet and give live birth to their young.

 

[vfem]

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He would have believed that actually! LOL

 

[Quack Shack]

So how much would you pay for said rare bird?

 

[jayde88]

Someone once asked me if chickens feathers turned red and orange when they got older like people's hair turns grey...
I explained to them they were different breeds.

Also, I have people who come to visit one, see the chicks, then just hatched, then come about a year later and ask where the chicks went. I had to explain that they had turned into to chickens, they didn't seem convinced.

 

[cap1717]

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you are kidding right

Nope her daughter is in my gifted class.

Not chicken related, but I once knew a woman (college graduate, no less!), who, upon looking at a field of cows, pronounced them to be "beautiful horses". . . . .

 

[vfem]

Well, a kid said this, but it was still funny!

"Wow... that rooster really crowed!"