Arise, chicken. Arise.
ATHF reference in the wild
Over here. Better reception.
It’s all fun and games until the rooster wakes you up at 4am.
Edit: sorry, I meant to reply to a different post, but I guess it still works.
Thanks chickens
Thickens.
The plot…
Then the homeowner’s assocition hears about it
What kind of miserable shithole would make it against the law to own chickens?
I don’t think it’s exactly against the law. Though the local HOA might have something to say about it.
But noise complaints are noise complaints, whether or not you like the sound of chickens if they’re being too loud you’re going to get a knock on the door. Same as if you had a very annoying dog.
most cities in Canada have bylaws against it
apparently you can have quail in some though
It’s against most city ordinances in the US
My guess is “places that have lots of predators and don’t want them being attracted to residential areas”. I can see an argument for banning chickens in a suburb if, say, little Susie down the street got attacked by a hungry coyote that couldn’t make it into any of the coops (i have no clue if coyotes would attack a kid or not, just an example).
It’s illegal on my town to have chickens on anything less than 5 acres. I have an acre that backs up to woods far enough away that a couple hens would be no problem, but nope. One of my neighbors has 4.6 acres and used to have chickens but had to get rid of them when they changed the law. Its extra sad that my house is an original 1900s farm house with the original barn that used to have donkeys, chickens, goats and a few cows sitting on 20 acres, now I’ll get fined to oblivion if I so much as get 1 quail.
They didn’t grand father him? That’s some bureaucratic bs.
And then I see factory egg farms and they put 10,000 chickens in 5 acres.
USA
I used to have chickens in a city when it wasn’t legal. They got reported and we had to rehome them. They were fun, though, and having fresh eggs was always great.
Where’d they end up?
I don’t remember specifically, but we definitely gave them to a family we knew personally, and I’m sure they weren’t slaughtered or anything.
In the shredder
To shreds you say
What a delight the person who reported you must be
Oh yeah. Next door neighbor. She’s been a nightmare. She threw fits demanding we move one of our fences. She systematically sprayed our plants with Round Up every year. She once hired unqualified dumbasses to cut down one of their trees which hit our house on the way down. (They felled it from the bottom “TIMBER” style as if it wasn’t a crowded suburban residential neighborhood.)
Yeah, she was a huge pain to live right next to. And then she died and her daughter moved in. And she’s just as bad. :\ We just avoid her.
have you tried using a spray-water bottle to punish bad behavior, it works on dogs and cats maybe it’ll work on something less intelligent?
Waking up to steadily increasing rooster calls is the nicest alarm clock IMO.
Stupid roosters, start off at full volume and save some time! (/s if it wasnt clear)
It’s not the volume that increases, it’s the frequency that increases until all the roosters are awake and the sun starts to peek over the horizon.
It would be horrifying if they all caw’d at once.
BRB, need to ask Randall Munroe a "what if’ question real quick for completely unrelated reasons…
Ok Ed
Many door, yes, Ed-boy?
Sometimes, on a walk or a bike ride, I’ll pass a yard with some chickens and it always makes me happy. There’s something to this.
My neabor had chickens. But they were used for cock fighting :(
That’s a shame, they should have stuck to cock magic instead.
Back in the 90’s before backyard chickens was a thing, I lived in the inner city in a neighborhood populated with lots of Puerto Ricans. Don’t know how long it was before I realized I heard roosters on the walk to the bus stop every morning. Now living in the burbs, my neighbors raise chickens, either they get tired of it after a year or their chickens get eaten by the foxes
my neighbors ate their chickens last year. i miss their eggs.
Chickens are silly and wonderful.
We had chickens growing up, but we had a large farm so they just sort of roamed around. I can’t imagine trying to keep them in a back garden of a normal house.
Around mid-2020 I worked at a callcenter. The organization I worked for had lower tiers of support via a callcenter in the Philippines and higher tiers via the stateside callcenter I worked at. When everyone went remote some of the staff at the Philipines callcenter emigrated to other countries and there was one particular member who always had some very noisy chickens in the background of their calls. It seriously reminded me how nice remote work can be for folks because this guy was chilling at home with his chickens nearby instead of in a stuffy office with a bunch of other unhappy underpaid callcenter workers. It was funny though how some customers reacted to it, sometimes it would just be one more thing for angry customers to complain about and other times it would be a wistful thing a customer commented about in a later positive review
Thanks chickens
I love chickens
