Why are chickens such a big deal?

[andynrowdy]

i think you r right. i have a macaw. i love her dearly but she is a terrible pet to own in the city. she screams loud enough to rattle your brains. she chews the wallpaper off the walls and splinters wooden furniture to toothpicks, and poops 50 times a day and somehow manages to hit everything but the newspaper. parrots can carry many deadly diseases including psittacosis/parrot fever-a disease reportable to the health dept. she requires special food served fresh several times a day and special toys for entertainment.

chickens are much quieter, and a billion times cheaper to feed,they eat up all the bugs and save my garden. their poop is a great fertilizer and they eat all my scraps. and i feed the eggs to the parrot !

if the city gets on my case about my chickens again i might get a few cockatoos to replace them. cockatoos can scream at 135 decibles. i bet they will wish the chickens were back.

 

[Dust Bunny]

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had to comment, i lived in a farming area several years ago and a rich successful "city" couple retired and decided to build a quaint little farm style home in the country to escape the madness of the city, so far so good until the farm next door started fertilizing the fields with manure

the lady came runnin out of the house like the world was ending! she went all mad to the farmer screamin "what are you DOING!!! you cant do that!!! THAT STINKS!!!!!

it smells like poop! farmer said "it smells like poop because it IS poop" well she about lost her mind

"WHAT?!!! why on earth would you do that?!!!" farmer said "because it makes stuff grow" well she continued to come unglued until finally the farmer said "listen lady, this is just part of country life, my family has been doing this for three generations on this farm and were not about to stop on account of you not liking the smell! what do you think makes your view so nice and green?" well she stormed off swearing things would change and that there had to be a law against making everything stink, but that was the last we heard from her

i guess it goes both ways

 

[geebs]

All I can say is: It is like having one salted peanut......(just not enough now is it?)

 

[pretty_chicken]

Sometimes I worry about letting my rooster out in the yard to play, (I haven't gotten my chicken license yet), but I guess if anyone wants to hassle me, I'll just say, "Would you rather I brought my python out in the yard for his exercise instead?!" That might shut them up!

 

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

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[shadewolf]

I even saw chicken myths from my own relatives! I was transporting some chicks from one city to another and had the box of them under my arm and stopped in the upstairs living area to say a few words on the way to a different room to retrieve a lamp to heat the chicks with. I no sooner had walked in with the peeping box-o-cuteness then was greeted with "Those are a health hazard!" (as if the healthy & clean chicks would get his already sick kids sick) and "Shouldn't you have a license to be transporting those...things?" I replied with they are no more a health hazard than a dog or cat (His cat occupies his kitchen while he cooks food), and that there were no laws requiring anyone to have a permit/license to transport a few birds. I then told him btw, my ducks are down around the on the back deck too, then later on I showed his kids some of the eggs the ducks laid that morning. Then I proceeded to cook the duck eggs up for breakfast and eat them in front of everyone in the house, remarking "hmm no one in my house has been sick at all since we started raising our own food!" His kids were sick as dogs before the visit, yet he brought them along anyway. Then my older, frail-in-health parents got sick from his kids. Funny how they didn't get sick from the birds I'd had at their house some days previous, they only got sick from the kids, and me and my son are not sick at all after having been exposed to the sick kids.

So yeah, his attitude that the birds were dirty-disease ridden animals ticked me off, more so because he didn't seem open to learning anything new about them either. I notice during the visit they didn't eat any of the eggs in the fridge since they knew I had brought them out from the farm. Oh well, his kids will grow up thinking food comes from a styrofoam box in the store.

 

[xyresicchick]

except crowing roos, but is that really any worse than screamin kids or that AWFULL ice cream truck?!!!! oh and don't get me started on the endlessly barking dogs!

I AGREE! the last neighborbood i lived in... there were 7... thats right S E V E N! ice cream trucks.
now there's only one... but it plays christmas music. SOOOO ANNOYING!

Our zoo has chickens like they are some ferocious, wild animal. Good grief.

MINE TOO! they hobble around all over the place though. i was "bok-bok-bok"ing at one hen last week when i was there and it followed me around a bit after that lol!

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your friend.... is an AIRHEAD!

some people have NO BRAIN!​

 

[Terpsichore94]

Backyard_Chicken_rancher wrote: "they said they are mass produced in a factory of some type kind of like cloneing"

Wow. I didn't grow up on a farm, but I did have cousins that did and my mom did. So I kinda grew up knowing where food really comes from. But I didn't realize that there were adults out there that thought eggs in the store came from some kind of factory cloning...

@Laurieks... I saw a bit on a documentary that Chipotle gets as much of their pork from free range pigs as they can. They even took you to the farm and showed the happy pigs running around rooting in the dirt for food. They were clean and the documentary crew said there was no typical stinky pig wallow smell. I suspect you get the "smell", when they live in a small enclosed pen.