How do people let their chickens free range in their front yard without chickens running into the road and getting hit?

[Bryce Thomas]

So just today I was driving back from a store and I see this big rooster right on the side of a busy road and the rooster was not around any hens, it was a farm area but it was a very busy road. How do people just let their chickens free range like that? It seems so careless. They could get stolen, killed, killed by teenagers for fun, killed by predators and so much more.

 

[DobieLover]

So just today I was driving back from a store and I see this big rooster right on the side of a busy road and the rooster was not around any hens, it was a farm area but it was a very busy road. How do people just let their chickens free range like that? It seems so careless. They could get stolen, killed, killed by teenagers for fun, killed by predators and so much more.

Worse yet, it sounds like that boy was dumped.

 

[Bryce Thomas]

I actually agree with you. I was thinking about speeding home then going back to where I saw him just to observe him. I have seen chickens jump and fly all around the farming community area so Im assuming he was owned, but that rooster was BIG, and there was a small kid walking home from school. It scared me to think that rooster could attack the kid with nobody around...

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Irresponsibly. See local statutes, "At Large".

 

[rosemarythyme]

I used to live off a small state highway that cut through a somewhat rural area with a few new subdivisions here and there, and it wasn't unusual to see various poultry wandering next to the highway. So yeah the not-smart ones get run over, and the smarter ones reproduce to make more birds that learn to avoid cars and 18 wheelers.

I jogged on the shoulder of that hwy for several years, so not sure if that makes me smarter or dumber than the birds.

 

[Brooks_]

I used to live off a small state highway that cut through a somewhat rural area with a few new subdivisions here and there, and it wasn't unusual to see various poultry wandering next to the highway. So yeah the not-smart ones get run over, and the smarter ones reproduce to make more birds that learn to avoid cars and 18 wheelers.

I jogged on the shoulder of that hwy for several years, so not sure if that makes me smarter or dumber than the birds.

I've seen them on the side by very suburban area. That grassy spot between the sidewalk and busy road. The chickens looked happy.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Mine could very easily get taken out, even just in my driveway by mail trucks and neighbors if they weren't aware of the danger. They learn fast, and dart to safety faster

 

[McChooky]

So just today I was driving back from a store and I see this big rooster right on the side of a busy road and the rooster was not around any hens, it was a farm area but it was a very busy road. How do people just let their chickens free range like that? It seems so careless. They could get stolen, killed, killed by teenagers for fun, killed by predators and so much more.

I split an order of baby chicks with a guy who typically buys his on clearance at Tractor Supply. If they're killed by predators or hit by a car "oh well". He couldn't tell you how many he has or where they're at because he rarely sees them(someone else feeds them) They have an "open" coop where they lay but they roost in trees. He lives off the main road.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Some folks just don't care! The girl who lives behind me at my new place "had" 70 chickens and 15 ducks when we first purchased the property back in May. She now has about 15-20 chickens, and 7 ducks. They just wonder about, I've seen one picked off by an owl, a hawk, a dog killed a few of the chicks and left them in my front yard It's a sad deal when animals are treated like that, but you can't save them all and you can't change the way some folks think.

 

[Sally PB]

It's a sad deal when animals are treated like that

Yes it is! It also tells me something about that person too.