I don't think this ad is still there but I saved it from when it was (about a week ago). I thought it was funny. 
Amazing, operatic hens! (north portland)
Date: 2012-04-27, 12:48PM PDT
Reply to: ghq48-2982913114@sale.craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
If you want some chickens but you don't want to deal with that "baby chick" part where they live in a box in your basement and make the entire house smell like ****, well, then have I got a deal for you...
Two grown chickens. Two years old. One big. One small. They look just like Abbot and Costello. Or Penn and Teller. Or Jake and the Fat Man. The big one is in charge, and the little one follows her around. (For those of you who care about labels, they are a Speckled Sussex and a bantam White Crested Black Polish.)
The good parts: They're super social. They'll run to you when you come outside. They lay eggs. Perfect, beautiful eggs. Normal size brown eggs and adorable little white eggs. But not freakishly small. You'll still look at them and wonder how it came out of the chicken (ask your mom!)
So why are we getting rid of them? Well.
1. We have plenty of eggs.
2. They're vocal. Not like rooster vocal. But talkative. Sometimes it's like a "bwabwabwabwabwa" and other times it's more like a "SQUAAAAAAsquasquasquasquaaaaa" and the occasional "kahKAAAAH kahKAAAAH" and it's annoying.
It wouldn't be that big of a deal if it was just these two, but they're the ringleaders to the other chickens. Motivators. Like the Tony Robbins of fowl. If they were to remake the movie Independence Day with poultry, these chickens would be the ones that play the president and give the rousing "Today... is our Independence Day!" speech to tell the other chickens to go fight the aliens. And then birds everywhere would cheer and give feathered high fives and get into their chicken jets and save the world.
They're that good.
So when they talk, our other chickens are like "Hey, those chickens are right! Let's start talking too!" and then everyone gets fired up and starts blathering on about whatever it is chickens talk about.
True story: Yesterday I was dreaming that I was watching a DVD of deleted scenes from Anchorman, and the guy with the cowboy hat was telling Will Ferrell that he could sing in 360 degrees and then he started making this crazy squaking sound. Then Ron Burgandy said, "I'm not hearing it in all of the degrees, do it again" so he started making the squaking sound again.
Then I woke up. And realized it was the chicken making the squaking sound. And then we agreed to put the chickens on craigslist.
SO what do you say? Want them? For free?