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

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I thought of something I say that might have been 'misinterpreted' as 'uneducated'. I write date/cross on all my eggs, for eating or hatching and folks buying eating eggs have asked "why" I write on them. There was a smartypants lady that I responded to with "because it makes them taste better" and I'll be darned if that didn't get repeated back to me as "that crazy lady thinks her eggs taste better because she writes on them".
I make idiot stuff go-round --- but by accident.
Think, before you blast.

Lisa

 

[pekinduck<3er]

some one should get one peson saying this to them it be so funny

 

[KansasKid]

There should be a sarcasm smilie or something

 

[treldib]

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[mominoz]

I had a teenager swear I dyed my eggs blue, because "eggs are white", I actually had to take her to the aviary and show her the freshly laid eggs, and she took pictures on her phone to "prove' it.

 

[nettie]

my absolute favorite question when I bring my ducks out of the house (to the pet store or for a walk in the park)-

Is that a duck? or a goose or something?

Well, it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck.... It's a rare african ground parrot!

Then they look at me and go, "Oh really what a neat bird!" then I tell them, no really, it's a duck...

"You can keep a duck as a pet, aren't they like wild animals?" Yes, you can, and no they're not... they are domesticated

"Does it fly away?" obviously not since it's here walking around with me....

"you eat the eggs? How do you get eggs without a male?" yep, funny how people don't get that one...

"So is it like a chicken?" No it's like a duck... lol

"Will it bite?" Well, they don't got teeth, as far as pecking, no they don't I taught them not to (As they push their 2 year old to pet the duck before hearing the answer)

"So do they eat like, duck food?" Why yes they do.... What do you think ducks on farms eat?

(When we get feeder fish at the store) "Eww! they eat fish!" My comment is, well they ARE ducks.....

I also love- "Oh hey, look at the goose!" people who obviously didn't pass "animals" in kindergarten....


It's amazing how dumb people can be about waterfowl. lol I get even weirder questions since I live in Chicago and I keep mine inside. People are astounded, sometimes even upset when I tell them the ducks have their own bedroom.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

The usual...We don't eat eggs from the farm because they might have little chicks inside. or the brown eggs come from brown hens and white eggs come from white hens...

 

[Carolyn252]

parsnips are just carrots before they put the orange color in them (!) unbelievable !!

 

[msdoolittle]

I know of a man who refuses to eat brown eggs. He swears they taste different.

Bird S-E-X is always good for a laugh when dealing with the uneducated. Always. When I was a vet assistant, I cannot TELL you how many times people asked if their bird's eggs would hatch. I would ask, "Well, do you have another bird in the cage with the mama?"

"Well....no."

and I'd just sigh and say, "Well, you can't really make a baby without a male and a female."

I swear, people would ALWAYS say, "But how do chickens do it?"

This would bring on my well-rehearsed ten minute bird reproduction lesson.

Completely not duck related, but one time my husband was in a grocery store on a super humid Southern day. He was talking to the little cashier and she was complaining about how her hair just wouldn't 'fix' that day. He said, "Well maybe it's because of all this humidity." She said, (with a semi-vacant stare) "No, I think it's all this MOISTNESS in the air."

Heaven help us!

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

I'm in the same boat, in that a lot of people have acted very surprised about eating duck eggs. They insist it is gross but I keep telling them they are the best for baking and they are bigger, so less eggs to crack for cooking! A bird egg is a bird egg is a bird egg. They're eggs. They're all the same. Some may taste a little better, but essentially they are all eggy, LOL.

You also have no idea (well, you probably do) how many times I've had to remind people that fertile/organic/farm raised/right from the chicken's butt eggs do not mean we are eating baby chicks! Are we eating DNA? Well, yeah. But not baby chickens. Or baby anything. We're eating the food they would be eating. There is also no difference between my flock's eggs and walmart/food lion/wherever's eggs. Well, there are differences, but they are still chicken eggs. Mine may or may not be fertile, but they will always be better quality, especially compared to the store bought white eggs. Ours are much more rich with healthy shells.
I've also had people tell me that they wouldn't eat brown eggs. I guess to them, brown = fertile = dead baby chicken inside your stomach. I personally prefer brown eggs to white.

I agree, white chickens = white eggs, and brown chickens = brown eggs, is ridiculous. Even the earlobe color does not work for every chicken.

At a farmer's/crafter's/homemade item people's type of extravaganza (the event is actually just called Farmer's Day

), I had some pigeons set up in show cages, to get some good promotion in. I heard "look at the chickens!" and "is that a chicken?" several times, from kids and grown-ups alike.

I also love how people think hens cannot lay eggs without males. And how they act all surprised when eggs start appearing and they get really confused.
There's a girl I know from school, who got some chicks for the first time. Me and the janitor donated some eggs for our AP Environmental Science class to hatch. This girl got 3 of them I believe. They grew up as mostly indoor pet chickens I think. She messaged me freaking out because she found an egg. She was like "WHAT DO I DO WITH IT!?" Um, eat it? "ISN'T THERE A BABY CHICKEN IN IT!?" Um, no. Not unless she started incubating it, which trust me, she didn't. "BUT I SAW HER ON IT TODAY SO IT MUST HAVE STARTED GROWING AND NOW ITS COLD SO IT MUST BE DEAD OMG" They do usually sit when they lay. Or hover, rather. It was nowhere near long enough or hot enough to start growing. CHILL. OUT.

We were in line at Walmart, and while the cashier was ringing up our stuff, we got into a conversation about our chickens not producing any eggs lately, thus we had to buy eggs for the first time in forever. I don't remember exactly what we said, but her response was "What? I don't eat no eggs from a chicken's butt. I eat them walmart eggs"
It took all I could do to NOT laugh out loud. I thought I was going to die. WHERE DOES SHE THINK EGGS COME FROM!?