Who Put The Egg In The Shell?

[TX Honky]

This is no joke. I do love my mother, I do honor thy mother. ect ect. but gees, the woman sometimes scares me! I have chickens and I was so excited when they started to lay, I live in TX she lives in Fl. the lady that she rents from has chickens too. Well I was telling her how I was scrambleing eggs for my ds, She said her landlord always gives her eggs and she just throws them away! Why? I asked. She said, cause I'm afraid there might be a baby chicken in there. . I said what? She said "dont the hens lay eggs and baby chicken is in there?" Oh my god! Now this was coming from a grown woman, who has a 8th grade education. But still. STAY IN SCHOOL!

 

[patandchickens]

Sure, it's amusing that people don't know about fertile vs infertile eggs, or that the hen puts the shell on, etc. But it is probably wise to remember that if many (not all) of US were dropped down in the middle of a big city, we would make very stupid obvious gaffes involving things like bus transfers, alternate-day parking laws, avoiding getting mugged or crossing paths with drug dealers, the minutiae of gangs....

...all of which are pretty important and basic pieces of *city* information, WAY more important to peoples' lives there than the details of the avian reproductive tract.

Personally I think it's GREAT that a kid would ask that question about how the egg shell gets on -- it shows he is THINKING

JMHO,

Pat

 

[FarmerChick]

TX Honky

I had a customer that said a similar thing...I sell eggs from the farm. She said, but shouldn't I get my eggs from the store cause those are laid for eating, aren't the farm eggs the ones where we get new chicks to be raised?

I guess it made sense to me in a way she might think that..LOL

 

[country freedom]

Well, this thread made me decide to talk to my kids today and see if they realize where food comes from.

Except when I asked about steaks, they chimed in DEER! guess that shows what we eat alot of LOL

Even now my oldest son (being all of 20 yrs. old), on down to my youngest daughter ( preteen), and the four in between those two mentioned, all still to this day, will ask if they can have another piece of chicken that I fixed...........except it's pork chops they are asking for!

 

[sweetcorn]

Beekissed wrote

ETA: Like eating eggs that slid from a vagina seems sooooo much more appealing?

LMAO , spit my coffee out even !

 

[the simple life]

Beekissed wrote

ETA: Like eating eggs that slid from a vagina seems sooooo much more appealing?

LMAO , spit my coffee out even !

I didn't even see that she had edited it, that is hysterical

 

[Nifty]

Reminds me of a story my brother told me of an affluent family that always fed their kids boneless chicken. They went to a picnic where they had KFC and the kid asked what it was!?!? He didn't know that "chicken" had bones.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Reminds me of a story my brother told me of an affluent family that always fed their kids boneless chicken. They went to a picnic where they had KFC and the kid asked what it was!?!? He didn't know that "chicken" had bones.

OMG are you freaking kidding me?!!

Make you wonder doesn't it? People just have no clue!

 

[FarmerChick]

LOL-LOL
A boneless live chicken!....hmmm...if I could farm that I would be rich!