The downside of living in the city with chickens is the smell and noise, but the chickens will just have to get used to it. ~ paraphrasing Sir Terry Pratchett.
Best Pratchett to ever preach it.
Thats a fuck ton of chickens.
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As someone with over 50, and hatching more this week, no it isn't.
Well, it isn't when you have 14 acres... But man they're so fun to just sit and watch.
It's fun until you wind up with a rooster that has made it his life's mission attacking you. Those spurs fucking hurt.
I generally get along with all our roos but we had a former rooster who would fight my partner every day. They would have to go outside with a stick in order to just let the dogs out.
That roo found the cone real quick.
Mine is in a phase of that, but he's kept hens safe, so I put up with his ass.
He used to not be that kind of asshole though. If he'd started out that way, I suspect he would have been soup
(Me living in a 900 sqft rental with three kids... ) hmmm I can raise chickens.
Don't let your dreams be dreams. I believe in you.
Chickens. Fine. In my experience most people with chickens also have a rooster. If you own a rooster and live in close proximity to anyone, you're an asshole.
Everyone complains about my rooster, but no one complains about our neighbor that goes out into his back yard and just screams "Hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" at 3 am every night.
He is just keeping the property values low for the affordability crisis.
My neighbor does the same. Just puts a few rounds into the ground in case anyone was thinking about gentrifying the place.
Make sure to thank him for his service (anonymously, I will he you don't want to direct his attention your way)
As someone with a chicken, rooster, guinea fowl, and a turkey. The rooster is necessary for hawk and eagle related reasons, turkey sure as shit isn't gonna do anything and the guinea are bitches.
Same can be said for anyone with a outside dog.
Yeah that shits way louder than a rooster.
I usually just tune it out though. My neighbor has a loud dog that always barks when I go in my back yard lol. It's my yard bitch
yes, and? Your desire to have a big hecking floofy pupper who is just soooo happy and needs to share with everyone at 5 in the morning does not override my reasonable expectation of being able to sleep during quiet hours.
My back yard is overgrown really bad right now and the neighbor with the dogs has been doing his passive aggressive best to get me to act. I think I may find some goats.
Had a neighbour who generally wasn't fit for pets. Whoever gave her a first dog to live in her tuna can of a smoker's apartment ought to be sued for cruelty. Whoever gave her a second one should be forced to live with the lot.
One or her dogs didn't get along with the other. No clue why or what she tried, but I'm inclined to assume "nothing" and it sure didn't work. Poor thing got locked out on the balcony instead. Whole neighbourhood got to hear his persistent cries of dismay. You'd think he'd accept his fate, but no, he'd bark hours on end. The hag had the nerve to be pissed at noise complaints too. Don't recall if he was taken from her or found some other end, but I think it stopped eventually.
Friends of my wife have chickens they raised from chicks. Only it's very hard to sex chicks and three of them grew up to be roosters. They eventually found someone out in the deep countryside who was willing to take them in as pets instead of chicken dinners. Until that time (which took nearly a year), they relied on anti-crow collars they found on Amazon - which seemed to half-strangle the roosters but didn't do much to discourage noise.
My wife hates that I still refer to them as the rooster gimps.
Many cities and suburbs only allow hens.
Then you have to ask what other animals are allowed? I could do with borrowing a goat to mow the grass in my garden and clear up the weeds around my allotment.
Next step is to buy 25 roosters and thick bedroom windows.
Extra points for guinea fowl. (They are EXTRA loud)
We had turkeys for a bit, and one of them we named Thanksgiving because holy fuck it would NEVER SHUT THE FUCK UP! It would just scream into the void all day.
Did the void ever scream back?
No, but I think the Fox that got him did.
My town allows chickens but doesn't allow roosters in city limits, and I assume most towns are that way so I would be cautious there
Exactly.
Nothing is stopping me from calling my neighbours & telling them that I think their goat is in my garden.
No matter how many times they tell me they don't have a goat, there's no proof that I can't assume whatever goat that's in my garden isn't theirs regardless of status or reality of said goat or garden.
L about to have 25 roosters.
My city doesn't allow roosters =(
That being said, I hear one every morning and won't tell because:
Interesting, so there's no way to like produce Chicken continually legally.
everyone i know with chickens in town isn’t hatching anyway. you need more space and a LOT more effort.
anyway their lifespan is long enough that you can use your egg-savings to buy new birds and still end up spending less money than if you’d just been buying eggs the whole time.
Makes sense. I live in a very different environment. People walk their cows around and usually let their goats and chickens roam around free during the day and they come home before night. There's no freedom of speech really but there's a lot of freedom that doesn't exist in more developed places. Like today I can buy a plot and set up a completely off grid house with a whole farm without any permits whatsoever for anything.
I love the city chickens. Bok bok!
I have lived next door to chickens, which is fine, but roosters? Those fuckers start screaming at 4 a.m., no joke. It's a lot louder than you imagine.
So, if your rooster turns up dead, shit happens.
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