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

[vfem]

I am glad this is only for ducks... if it was 'in general' I would be here typing idiot comments I've heard in my life for WEEKS to post the answer. LOL

But as for ducks, I actually talked to someone who came and saw my ducks on the pond... and asked where I housed them. I let them know my ducks were stubborn and I could never get them back in the duck house, so they just free-range and have 24/7 access to the pond. They asked "Well, wouldn't they eventually drown if they don't stay out and dry off inside somewhere?"

Really?! Well shoot... I better round them up and blow dry 'em quick.

What makes me laugh, is that I laughed at them... and they said "I'm not being funny, its a serious question!"

 

[duckking]

I am always taken aback at how many people think ducks and chickens can't lay eggs unless they have males around. I mean female humans 'lay' eggs once a month without males around. They are always AMAZED when I tell them that! It's like I just explained the theory of relativity to them.

 

[AdamD77]

^ I agree! I am also amazed how many people think there has to be a male for the females to lay eggs. Then when the sentence 'An egg is basically a chicken's/duck's period' comes out my mouth they seem disgusted

Yesterday I also had 'Do ducks have teeth?'...

 

[sheps4her]

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I just had this same exact conversation with the same explanation....and they said "eeewwww I am never eating eggs again!!!

 

[Big Dreamer]

There was a post on here with a link and it was about some ladies duck that she was worried about, she was worried it was pregnant...

 

[iajewel]

I love this thread. I wish I had a duck story.. I don't, I can tell you about how all my farming neighbors thought I cut the ears off my goats when I moved here 20yrs ago, I had LaManche and they had never seen one. Oh my was I the horrible talk of the town and wasn't even unpacked. Then one day one of the old hens (neighbor ladies) came when she saw me delivering kids out in the pasture ( not really delivering just standing by with a towel) she came running to save that poor goat, who she learned was born that way. Never did I get an Im sorry out of that one.

or the post on BYC I loved the most "Can I feed my chicken spaghetti"

Or my 3yr granddaughter who after learning about incubators, baby chicks and large end up, rearranged her mothers refrigerated eggs and wouldn't allow anyone to eat them.

Nope.. don't have any good duck stories sorry.. but do love the ones posted. Keep'em coming

 

[92caddy]

A few years ago I wanted to take some of geese to a sale cross state lines and to do so I had to take my birds to a vet and have them tested and looked over. So I get to the vets office, I go and tell him Im here and the geese are out in the truck, so he says he'll be right out, so when he gets out to the truck, he looks in the bed of the truck and says, they are the biggest ducks I have ever seen, what kind of ducks are they, were did you ever get such big ducks at? I had to tell him 3 times that they are NOT ducks, they are GEESE. He then asked me if I was sure they were geese and not ducks? At this point I was getting a bit fired up, I told him they are what ever you want em to be as long as you sign the dang paper work so I can go home and do the feeding. Thankfully he put geese on the paper work and I went home. I dont go to him anymore.

 

[NYRIR]

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UNBELIEVABLE!

 

[missred871]

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yep.... I posted that.

Great stories guys, I love the same stuff and if you go to the post she's talking about, you can go to that website and see a bunch of HILARIOUS stuff! Anywhere from ducks dropping eggs while in flight to pregnant ducks. Hilarious stuff that you just can't make up!

 

[vebyrd36]

Well the most unusual coment I have had was do ducks get duckitis. My being a nurse I asked do you mean arthritis.