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

[Mary Of Exeter]

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I've gotten asked that a lot. Not just with chickens, but with ducks, pigeons, and all others. I've found the easiest explaination is just "they rub their butts together, the end" and let them research themsleves

Otherwise nothing we say will ever make sense to them.

 

[msdoolittle]

Lol, exactly, Mary. Another thing that 99% of people do not realize (though this is regarding parrots) is that if they do not have a mate, they will....how do I put this....'please themselves'. Oh, how I DO wish you could have seen the man's face when I told him what his cockatoo was REALLY doing on his head. Yes, in his hair.

Poor WalMart girl! Poor little thing.

 

[NYREDS]

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Actually they will drown if they can never get off the water. They need to preen to reoil their feathers. If the couldn't do that their feathers would eventually get waterlogged & they'd drown.

 

[jack & mommy's duckies]

All these story's are funny.

Here is one. I work in an office of a forklift company. I work with my husband and my brother inlaw. I have one very special duck that likes to go everywhere with me. And I take her to the office all the time. My dumb brother is so scared of her he won't leave his office or go near mine.....it kills me every time. And some times when he pisses me off I'll pick up her pillow and put it in front of the bathroom door just after he goes in. lol I've had him stuck in there for hours. ....What's wrong Gord....well just move her if you want out..........lol dear god, his wife wants to have a pet duck to keep him trapped at home to....

And it is funny, when I'm on the phone and she lets out a quack....people say...that is the funniest dog bark I've ever heard...ya duck quack........no that was a dog I heard it. Well stop on over and come see. And some times they do......omg they don't get it. they are so lost and so star struck.

And since she goes everwhere with me....and we go to Tim Hortons (yep...Canadian) she often gets tim bits in the drive through...it is kinda funny. but I sure can hold a line up

 

[cozycritters]

My MIL who grew up on a farm said:

"Oxen are a cross between a bull and a Mule."

Argued for a long time about it-- she's serious and will not accept anything else.

 

[bel]

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Cracks me up, a lot of people get birds and not cosidering that there might be a reason birds are the first half of "the birds and the bees" We had an english budgie who "enjoyed" her mirror so much we used to joke she took narcisissm to a whole new level.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

My sister-in-law, looking at baby ducks I had, asked what they would grow up to be. Uh, bigger ducks. She wasn't sure if they would remain ducks when they were grown.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

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Same thing happened to me. I gave the nearest neighbor eggs and his grown daughter refused to eat them. You see, the eggs I gave them were made by chickens.... she only ate eggs made by IGA.

 

[greekbioguy]

had a hard time once trying to explain to some friends of mine that mules are a cross between a horse and a donkey and are sterile. one of them insisted that his grandfather owned mules and used to breed them. the argument stopped when he called his grandfather and asked him

 

[annaraven]

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Maybe she thought they'd grow up to be swans. you know, like the ugly duckling...