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

[FrizzleFreak]

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Search "Funniest Things a City Slicker Has Ever Said To You" It's thirty seven pages long, of essentially this.

 

[Rillion]

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Well, I did Google it but didn't manage to find what you were talking about. Do you have a link?

Incidentally, people here might be interested to know that the most recent episode of Top Chef Masters (#4) features a mini-challenge where the chefs have to cook an egg dish with one hand tied behind their backs! One of the chefs uses duck eggs, btw.

 

[Bridget399]

When my chickens were babies, I kept them in my bathroom in a baby pool. My Godkids loved to come over to play with them (and still do). They asked me once, while hunched over the baby pool,

"Do they, like, lay eggs in your baby pool?"

I had the biggest grin on my face, but managed not to LOL!

 

[cyanne]

One of my sisters won't eat eggs from my chickens because she says it is "mean" to take the chickens' eggs away from them...like you are stealing their babies. I asked her if she thought it wasn't mean to cram them in cages for their whole lives, but she says it is different because my chickens are my pets so it's like stealing a puppy from your pet dog to eat it?

I tried explaining the whole "chickens have to be broody to hatch eggs" thing to her, but she is adamant that they will somehow be sad because I am stealing their eggs.

My other sister won't eat them because they taste too "eggy."

Also, on the subject of farming, I had a conversation with my parents the other day during which I made a comment about people being ignorant.

My mom laughed and said what did I think I was with all of my farm animals...as if owning animals somehow lowers your IQ and makes you incapable of rational thought. Guess I'd better slow down with my farm or else we'll end up looking and acting like extras from the movie, "Deliverance."

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

You are right on!

Here is one thats really funny!

I went to the post office to ship eggs. I go up to the front and put the box down. This lady comes up. She starts to verify the box. Just to say I sometimes put cute little chick pictures that say"fragile live emryos"...so anyways she Looks it over and says "Are these actual eggs", I said "yes". she says " How do they breath?". I said "they don't, they are eggs". she says "I cant ship these, I have to call my supervisor". so I ask "why not?". She tries to explain to me "that they are considered live animals and that babies come out of them". So I try to explain to her that "they arnt chicks yet and that they will be only if they are incubated or under a broody momma". She also asked "why did you put the stickers on it then if there arent real chicks in the box?". So I said "thats just a reminder to the post office people to becareful with them"..

So her confusion started with the stickers that said "live embryos" she really thought there were real chicks in those eggs, and just couldnt believe I was shipping them LOl..

I actually got a luagh out of it. She was so seriouse haha..Funny post office lady lol

It actually went on back and forth for 15 minutes lol


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[Namble]

"Why do roosters lay eggs and crow?" lol my funny NIL

 

[Fancypants4569]

Ok its late and Im gonna sit down and read the rest of these tomorrow...Have laughed my butt off!!!
But to add one... Im pretty new to raising chickens, learning all my breeds, illnesses and such. I am raising a second batch of chicks right now that are about five weeks old. Anyway, I ordered 5 partridge cochins, set them up in the brooder and never gave it a second thought because Ive been so busy with 4-h projests and my own huge list of stuff, thought I had all the right chickens without really looking then over. A week ago I went into the feed store to get chicken food and they have a new batch of chicks in and I look at one with cute lil fuzzy feet and the lady workin tells me its a cochin. (at this time the light bulb is going on over my head) Mine have no feathery legs!!!! I tell her this and you wanna know what she tells me? Oh you have clean legged cochins.... I must have newbie written on my forhead, but I know there is no such thing!!! I have since found out that I have Partridge Rocks and Im ok with that, but sheeesh! LOL

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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WOW. Is she vying for Mother of the Year or what?

Even if you WERE ignorant, moms aren't supposed to say it to you!!!!

Get you some overalls and a banjo, girl!!!! Tell Mom you want to get a family portrait.

 

[Quack Shack]

Stephys, I'd be tempted to ship live fish embryos on my next post office trip.

Rillion, egg dish you say? Well, I'd like to see him do it with one kid or dog on his hip, a pot boiling over on the stove and the phone ringing. Then we could welcome him to our world.

 

[77horses]

My mom says that eating eggs is nasty because it's a "chicken period".

And one time I was explaining about how to tell the difference between fertile eggs and non-fertile eggs(like if there's a O on the yolk it's fertile, and if there's a small speck than it's not fertile), and I told her that you can eat either one as long as the one that is fertile doesn't have a developing chick in it and she says that it's basically eating a baby chick.

I tried to tell her that it isn't really eating a baby chick, it's eating an egg that could possibly develop into a chick if incubated!

We give free eggs to our neighbors(who just started raising chickens), and luckily they understand about blue eggs and everything. We sometimes give them our blue eggs from our Amer. pullet and at first I thought that they would think it was rotten because it was blue(I've heard of people not eating blue eggs just because they were blue), but luckily they enjoy receiving a few surprise blue eggs.