What is the MOST "uneducated" thing you have ever heard?

I posted this in the "things city slickers have said" , but it is also appropriate for here. A woman I know raises lots of waterfowl, along with some varieties of chickens, turkeys, guineas, and doves. She also owns a large antiques store. Some people came to look at some antiques, and heard the noises coming from her warehouse area, where she had all her brooders. They wanted to see what was back there, so she took them back. At that time, she had over 200 babies of different breeds including silkies, sultans, polish, several varieties of ducks, some turkeys, etc. One of the women said, "wow! It must take a long time to feed them. You'd just be finishing the last bottle before you had to start all over..." My friend started laughing and looked at the women behind the one who said it. They weren't laughing. She then thought, "I know! I'm being punked!" Sadly, no.... She then had to explain to the women that baby chicks, ducks, and turkeys don't drink milk from bottles....
 
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Haha for the number one... I completely understand... frustrates the hell out of me...
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Especially when its convincing my own grandparents haha..

I've heard the basic "Aren't those ducklings a little young to be without their mother? I mean, doesn't she still need to feed them??" -- plenty of times
Also got a little frustrated with a person who kept, even after lots of corrections, calling my 4 day old runner ducklings "chickens" -- am I the only one who thinks they look nothing alike?
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Hahaha and the stories you guys are sharing of 'I eat store meat, not the meat from cattle..' and the same with milk and eggs... that cracks me up
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Some people are a little bit ignorant?
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After handing a 3week old Duckling to one of my dad's workmates to cuddle... 'so is this a duck or a chicken?'

it also amazes me still how many people dont understand that an egg wont hatch unless its incubated.

And the most recent one from my very own 26yr old sister, who had the same upbringing as me, we've always had animals of all sorts... 'can chickens breed with ducks?'
and then had to explain to her that when i set duck eggs under a broody chicken it didnt mean that they would be half chicken half duck...
 
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Ummmm. Not quite right to equate poultry's egg to a human period. The poultry's egg is like a human's egg, not a human's period. A human in her reproductive years will produce and discharge an egg every 28 days (on average). If you search for the egg diligently, you may actually see it on the toilet tissue or underpants, or panty liner, etc. it's about the size of the dot made by a very sharp pencil. May be slightly pinkish/grayish in color.

If implantation of a human's fertilized egg does not occur within about 2 weeks after the egg leaves her ovary, there will be a disintegration of the thickened lining of the uterus. The bloody bits and pieces of the disintegration are discharged from the body for a few days and those few bloody days are the "period."

When conversing with total newbies, I use the sentence, "Hens discharge an unfertilized egg once a day; just like women discharge an unfertilized egg once a month."
 
I've heard a lot, but one that certainly ranks up there is "Of course we feed the horses whole corn, our grandfather did and it was fine for his horses. The cobs are good for their digestion too." Omitting of course that 15 was an old age for grandfather's horses when we can expect ours to live into the late 20s and early 30s with proper feeding and care!

And there's "We have the vet out twice a year, spring and fall, to worm our horses whether they need it or not!" This is said, of course, in an indignant voice.

I've heard the duck teeth thing too.

Oh, here's another: someone I know had draft horses outside overnight with blankets on; when morning came, the heat from the horses caused steam to be visible in the morning light. Someone called the fire department and sent them to the farm, saying their horses were on fire because they could see the "smoke" rising off of them!
 
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My husband likes to get weird looks by ordering them scrambled soft.
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