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Flibbertigibbet
Unfortunately this is true and as shocked as I was at the not knowing part it was also funny.
My 11 year old grandson was visiting and since he had been in front of the TV or on the computer playing games most of the day I told him to get up and help me with the chickens. Off we go with his questions on what all we had to do. I was explaining feed, water, egg gathering, etc. Told him to watch for snakes, not to be jumping around or chaseing the chickens, etc. I put him in charge of watering while I fed. He finished watering just as I started gathering eggs. I was coming out of the smallest chicken house with a couple of eggs in my hand when he gets this look of amazement on his face and ask, "Granny, where did you get that"?
Stunned, I look down at my hands and say, what, this egg. He says yes and I tell him out to the nest in the chicken house. His next question floored me.
"When did you put the shell on it?" He honestly thought that egg shells were applied in a egg shell factory.
This is a prim example of "Not knowing where your food comes from". And also the reason so many people say, "What are they teaching our children/grandchildren in school"?
My children grew up with chickens, rabbits, goats, horses etc. I have not had any of these things in over 20 years and my hens had just started laying so this was his first encounter at my house with egg gathering. Needless to say, he and I spent the rest of the weekend discussing where his food comes from.
My 11 year old grandson was visiting and since he had been in front of the TV or on the computer playing games most of the day I told him to get up and help me with the chickens. Off we go with his questions on what all we had to do. I was explaining feed, water, egg gathering, etc. Told him to watch for snakes, not to be jumping around or chaseing the chickens, etc. I put him in charge of watering while I fed. He finished watering just as I started gathering eggs. I was coming out of the smallest chicken house with a couple of eggs in my hand when he gets this look of amazement on his face and ask, "Granny, where did you get that"?
Stunned, I look down at my hands and say, what, this egg. He says yes and I tell him out to the nest in the chicken house. His next question floored me.
"When did you put the shell on it?" He honestly thought that egg shells were applied in a egg shell factory.
This is a prim example of "Not knowing where your food comes from". And also the reason so many people say, "What are they teaching our children/grandchildren in school"?
My children grew up with chickens, rabbits, goats, horses etc. I have not had any of these things in over 20 years and my hens had just started laying so this was his first encounter at my house with egg gathering. Needless to say, he and I spent the rest of the weekend discussing where his food comes from.
Must say, the chicken is a rather sophisticated piece of "machinery"!
thats pretty funny.
