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Funny questions/comments from non-horsey peeps
Tweet Topic Started: Mar 30 2013, 05:34 PM (633 Views)
Fish Cheeks	Mar 30 2013, 05:34 PM Post #1
You're BANNED! Posts: 5,758 Group: Members Member #211 Joined: January 7, 2007	Last time my mom was up she was helping me with poo chores by driving the tractor. She observed Mac hanging out and asked: Are horses circumcised?



gunnar	Mar 31 2013, 07:17 AM Post #2
You're BANNED! Posts: 6,490 Group: Members Member #236 Joined: January 8, 2007	Ha ha ha!



Trialbyfire	Mar 31 2013, 08:29 AM Post #3
You're BANNED! Posts: 5,272 Group: Members Member #250 Joined: January 8, 2007	Well, that's a new one! What did you say? (One could have a lot of fun with that one, I think!) I've never really been asked anything odd, except that it seems many people are brought up to think that if they ever see a horse lying down it is dead. I've been asked that before (by my friends) and they really wanted to know - e.g. they saw a horse lying down somewhere, and wondered if they should call animal control, or knock on the door? It seems odd to me that people don't realize they can lie down. And people always ask about fly masks, and fly sheets ("the horrible people down the road have a blanket on their poor horse in the summer!")



Indy	Mar 31 2013, 08:43 AM Post #4
You're BANNED! Posts: 8,083 Group: Admin Member #326 Joined: January 10, 2007	Years ago I worked on a breeding farm. We had a college-aged kid working for us, doing maintenance stuff. He liked animals but had never been around horses. While watching one of the foals nurse, he asked me if the foal was drinking milk. It took a lot for me not to tell him that that mare produced rootbeer.



Fish Cheeks	Mar 31 2013, 10:13 AM Post #5
You're BANNED! Posts: 5,758 Group: Members Member #211 Joined: January 7, 2007	I said no, but I could see why she asked that question! We share a gate and part of a driveway with wonderful neighbors who love our horses and welcome them to graze on their pastures in the spring. Last year Paddy had a fly mask with ears on it and somehow it got a hole in the end of one of the ears and it was frayed. The neighbor commented that someone had bitten Paddy's ear half off! Funny about the milk question, Indy. I mean, really - what else would it be?!



Barn Girl	Mar 31 2013, 10:44 AM Post #6
It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure! Posts: 2,347 Group: Members Member #1,230 Joined: July 5, 2007	That's hilarious, FC! The one that kills me is that every summer someone visiting our farm asks "why do you have blindfolds on your horses?" I find it hard to explain that they're fly masks without cracking up. I can't think of any other funny ones right now, but surely they wouldn't beat your mom's, FC!



Indy	Mar 31 2013, 10:50 AM Post #7
You're BANNED! Posts: 8,083 Group: Admin Member #326 Joined: January 10, 2007	Fish Cheeks Mar 31 2013, 10:13 AM Funny about the milk question, Indy. I mean, really - what else would it be?! That's why I had such a hard time not answering him sarcastically. I mean...horses are mammals....mammals drink milk....ergo, baby wasn't drinking coffee. But he was kind of a dumb kid so he probably didn't pay much attention in science class.



vxf111	Apr 1 2013, 08:11 PM Post #8
You're BANNED! Posts: 6,368 Group: Members Member #325 Joined: January 10, 2007	Not HR but farm-related. I do a reading program with an inner city child. She, me, and another attorney read once a week at lunchtime. She had this fiction book about chickens and she started getting upset halfway through thinking that eating eggs was killing baby chickens. I explained in a VERY genera way about how eggs get fertilized and she felt much better. Afterwards, the other attorney admitted to me that he didn't know and he assumed chickens had actual intercourse. I said "they're not mammals!" He said "they're not?!" He didn't know THAT EITHER?!



bellaluna	Apr 2 2013, 07:02 AM Post #9
Magical Leopluridon Posts: 914 Group: Members Member #1,896 Joined: October 16, 2007	V-that's craaazy! Also not HR but I've seem to run into a lot of people who think sharks aren't animals I'm like - they're not MAMMALS but they're ANIMALS. They seemed to have mixed the two categories up I truly don't understand that.



Indy	Apr 2 2013, 07:33 AM Post #10
You're BANNED! Posts: 8,083 Group: Admin Member #326 Joined: January 10, 2007	bellaluna Apr 2 2013, 07:02 AM Also not HR but I've seem to run into a lot of people who think sharks aren't animals I'm like - they're not MAMMALS but they're ANIMALS. They seemed to have mixed the two categories up I truly don't understand that. This frightens me a little bit. It's one thing not to pay close attention in school and not understand mammal vs. bird/fish/etc, but it's another thing not to pay attention in life and not understand that a shark is an animal. It's like when my step-cousin, who was 11 at the time, asked me what a state was. Girl didn't know the difference between a city and a state.



Trialbyfire	Apr 2 2013, 08:03 AM Post #11
You're BANNED! Posts: 5,272 Group: Members Member #250 Joined: January 8, 2007	vxf111 Apr 1 2013, 08:11 PM Not HR but farm-related. I do a reading program with an inner city child. She, me, and another attorney read once a week at lunchtime. She had this fiction book about chickens and she started getting upset halfway through thinking that eating eggs was killing baby chickens. I explained in a VERY genera way about how eggs get fertilized and she felt much better. Afterwards, the other attorney admitted to me that he didn't know and he assumed chickens had actual intercourse. I said "they're not mammals!" He said "they're not?!" He didn't know THAT EITHER?! Well, I think that's not an unreasonable question -- chickens do sort of actually have intercourse (cloacal kiss)....it only lasts a few seconds, but technically there is actual mating and passing of sperm from the male to the female. Some larger species of birds actually do have a penis. Now, not knowing birds aren't MAMMALS, well, there is no excuse for that, is there? Or that sharks aren't animals....although I guess I can see how that could confuse a kid (not an adult though)...



vxf111	Apr 2 2013, 12:19 PM Post #12
You're BANNED! Posts: 6,368 Group: Members Member #325 Joined: January 10, 2007	Trialbyfire Apr 2 2013, 08:03 AM vxf111 Apr 1 2013, 08:11 PM Not HR but farm-related. I do a reading program with an inner city child. She, me, and another attorney read once a week at lunchtime. She had this fiction book about chickens and she started getting upset halfway through thinking that eating eggs was killing baby chickens. I explained in a VERY genera way about how eggs get fertilized and she felt much better. Afterwards, the other attorney admitted to me that he didn't know and he assumed chickens had actual intercourse. I said "they're not mammals!" He said "they're not?!" He didn't know THAT EITHER?! Well, I think that's not an unreasonable question -- chickens do sort of actually have intercourse (cloacal kiss)....it only lasts a few seconds, but technically there is actual mating and passing of sperm from the male to the female. Some larger species of birds actually do have a penis. Now, not knowing birds aren't MAMMALS, well, there is no excuse for that, is there? Or that sharks aren't animals....although I guess I can see how that could confuse a kid (not an adult though)... In the context of me explaining why supermarket eggs aren't going to turn into chickens, his reply that he thought chickens "had sex" and "didn't know it worked that way" was really shocking. Its not so much that he didn't understand the fertilization part... he seemed to be of the impression that there was some sort of LIVE BIRTH phenomenon going on. Which... if you are aware of the EXISTANCE of EGGS... how you can possibly think that... is beyond me!



Trialbyfire	Apr 2 2013, 01:20 PM Post #13
You're BANNED! Posts: 5,272 Group: Members Member #250 Joined: January 8, 2007	vxf111 Apr 2 2013, 12:19 PM Its not so much that he didn't understand the fertilization part... he seemed to be of the impression that there was some sort of LIVE BIRTH phenomenon going on. Which... if you are aware of the EXISTANCE of EGGS... how you can possibly think that... is beyond me! OK, yeah, that is way different than my read of it. Trying to imagine a live chicken birth... haha... I think some people on "what are you reading" thread mentioned Barbara Kingsolver as a favorite author - the only thing I ever read of hers was Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - which had a very hilarious chapter about turkey breeding and poultry "sex".... very worth reading even if you don't like non-fiction! (She actually tells a similar story about inner-city kids who didn't know which vegetables came from out of the ground, and thought maybe spaghetti grew in gardens. And she has a PhD friend who somehow didn't realize potato plants had a "green part" (you know, stem, leaves, flowers, etc.).... Edited by Trialbyfire, Apr 2 2013, 01:20 PM.



Fish Cheeks	Apr 2 2013, 01:27 PM Post #14
You're BANNED! Posts: 5,758 Group: Members Member #211 Joined: January 7, 2007	Well I will admit I didn't know how chickens reproduced. I mean, duh, I know they lay eggs and aren't mammals, but as far as the actual egg fertilization thing . . . .well, I had to look that one up! Speaking of looking things up, Mr. Fishy thought he saw a pheasant in the pasture the other day. I had to tell him it was NOT a pheasant and maybe it was a turkey or a pea hen. So then we were googling turkey stuff to find pictures. He typed in "turkey girl" and of course we got a lot of sexy pictures of girls from Turkey....which is NOT what was in our pasture!



vxf111	Apr 2 2013, 01:40 PM Post #15
You're BANNED! Posts: 6,368 Group: Members Member #325 Joined: January 10, 2007	Haha FC, I am laughing on the quiet car train at your sexy turkeys



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