Funny conversation with a "city slicker"...

[michickenwrangler]

Our one idiot neighbor stopped over one day shortly after we got our rather large partridge cochin rooster. He sauntered over and asked, "Is he a Rhode Island Red?"

"No."

"What is he?

"Cochin."

"Ain't never heerd o' one o' them" (He's lived in MI 15 years and still insists on speaking with a southern accent)

"They're a Chinese/Vietnamese meat breed." He would never understand ornamental.

"Vietnam, eh? I oughta shoot him." Followed up by an ethnic slur reserved for the Vietnamese.

He's no longer welcome over here.

 

[WesternChick]

I am so glad we don't have very many people like that around here although one of my friends didn't know what a bridle was...and my cousin thought gallop was called run and trot was called skip......,

 

[dianneS]

I am so glad we don't have very many people like that around here although one of my friends didn't know what a bridle was...and my cousin thought gallop was called run and trot was called skip......,

Oh, that is too funny. I'm going to ask my horse to skip tomorrow and see what she does.

 

[michickenwrangler]

My city slicker father for some reason always uses car terminology to refer to horses, ex. "You ever take her out to a field and open her up?" for do you gallop or "Put the brakes on" for halt. Funny thing is, he doesn't know much about cars either

Remember, horses CAN skip, they're called tempi changes.

 

[Horsiezz]

Yes...we live in the city...and people are baffled about the chickens. When we give our neighbors eggs they are scared to eat them...and they think you need a rooster for them to lay an egg...and when they saw the blue eggs and the lil bantam eggs...man they freaked! Pretty funny watcing their reactions ...but sometimes annoying. And they NEVER knew there were different kinds of chickens...and my teacher said(this made me want to go off on him!) he asked "Well do you eat them..??" And I said..."Umm no...we just use the eggs...but we proabbly have to butcher some...but I REALLY am going to try to stop my stepdad from doing it." and he looked at me like I was crazy...and said. "Well thats what they are made for! Chickens are just mindless birds! They have no personalities. They are just here to eat,reproduce,and poop every where..then be eaten! When I was a boy...we had chickens and I loved to chop there heads off an watch them flop around. "

I get that too!! I have people on one end that have no idea where eggs come from and then others (sometimes the same people) expecting me to just eat the birds for meat because that is "what they were made for!" its infuriating!! Anyone who loved to chop the heads off of anything, especially as a boy, is a twisted individual as far as I'm concerned.

I also get a lot of people that don't know that there are various different breeds of chickens. They think, "chicken" is a breed!

I often wonder how many city folk actually eat the eggs that I give them and how many of them just throw the eggs away because they are "scared" to eat them!!?? I have had some folks ask me if I have to "do anything" to my eggs (like pasturize them or something) to make them edible like store bought eggs! I bet those people just threw the eggs that I gave them, into the trash!

Oh My Gosh. They ask that too,about making them edible. ETC...I just look at them...like WOW.

 

[dianneS]

I just told a lady today that when I have extra and old eggs on hand I scramble them up on the stove and feed them back to the chickens.

She said, "eww that's like us eating scrambled embryos!"

 

[FunnyFarm]

I had a lady tell her husband that she couldn't eat the eggs I gave them because "they had come straight out of the chicken" I guess she thinks the store bought eggs are surgically removed from the chicken??

 

[dianneS]

I had a lady tell her husband that she couldn't eat the eggs I gave them because "they had come straight out of the chicken" I guess she thinks the store bought eggs are surgically removed from the chicken??

That's funny. I imagine a lot of the eggs that I give away get thrown in the trash.

 

[freemotion]

Which is why I rarely give them away. I sell them or only give them to those that "get it" and promise not to ever make an egg white omelet!

 

[dianneS]

I had a new one the other day. Actually two different encounters that confused me a bit.

This guy asked me if horses really sleep standing up. I said yes, they do. He asked if they are ever able to lay down. I told him yes, my mare lays down in her stall during the night, but for very brief periods, and that most horses don't remain lying down for any serious length of time. I even told him its not natural or healthy for a horse to lay down for too long.

He replied "Awwww, that's too bad. Its so sad, I feel bad for the poor things. Its not fair that they can't lay down and get some real rest. It must be just awful to have to live like that."

Huh?

I said something about changing my horses bedding in her stall to this lady the other day. She asked why. I said to get the poop out of the stall and replace it with fresh bedding. She said "Horses poop in their beds, where they sleep?!?! Well, they are very pretty animals to look at, but not very intelligent! Why would a horse poop in its own bed?"

I tried to explain that when a horse is confined to its stall and considering that it eats pretty much constantly, and digestive tract constantly moving, that horses don't have much choice, and its us humans that put them in this situation. She went on "But to poop in its own bed! That's disgusting!" Then I realized that she was thinking "bedding" as in pillows and blankets, like dog beds and cat beds!

I explained that its just sawdust, not a big fleece horsey bed with her name embroidered on the front and a matching pillow and blanket.