Why are chickens such a big deal?

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

They give us eggs, they eat bugs, and they're are my BABIES!!!!!!!!

 

[PoultryPedia]

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[ParrotsNPullets]

I have both chickens & parrots (my name didn't tip anyone off right?

) and I'd have to say despite the very loud (almost goose-like) sounds they make after they've laid, the chickens are much quieter & more appreciated by my neighbors than my parrots (my parrots are sweeties, but my Patagonian Conure has some lungs on him!). Parrots are wild animals, chickens are domesticated, that is a large factor that plays into the racket they make at times.

I am relatively safe in my city but the law is somewhat fuzzy here, so I am prepared to create raise quite a ruckus of my own if I get that knock on my door. My chickens are relatively quiet, clean, they don't smell, they produce healthy food for the neighborhood (our eggs are never turned down! ) & fertilizer for my organic garden... Yes they are definitely worth the controversy...

 

[SilverPhoenix]

I wonder about this myself. Especially because I think a person could easily keep a few silkies, bantam cochins, or seramas in your house and no one would even know they're there. Aside from maybe large free-roaming roosters, I really don't think chickens are more disruptive, disease-spreading, or anything else really than dogs, cats, parrots, etc. They're pretty nice animals to be around, all-in-all...

I think a big part of it is that most people don't spend much time with chickens and therefore don't know what keeping them is actually like. They associate them with smelly farms and assume the chickens are going to be roaming all over pooping and crowing and chasing people. Sadly, I don't think the average person has had enough contact with chickens to know much about them other than stereotypes and examples of extremely bad poultry management.

 

[KenLamWV]

Because there are lots of chickens with beautiful plumage and another thing- parrots and other exotic birds a just plain expensive- hundreds to thousands for a single bird.

 

[SilkieTime]

A friend came to get a kitten today. Just to be nice I ask if she wanted some free eggs. She said " Chicken eggs?

" Not from chickens "

Nice big blue chicken eggs hatched today. More for me.

 

[silkiechicken]

Simple, it's their age old rep of being dirty messy animals. Same reason behind how pigs have the rep of being muddy messes. People have stereotypes on the animals and ban them before anyone can even think about keeping few in a "new" way and overturning their old rep.

 

[tnchickenut]

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Exactly what I was trying to say. You said it better. lol

 

[pretty_chicken]

We just got our chicken law here in Baraboo passed last fall, and I just got my chicks last week. I've had an illegal rooster living in my house for the past 6 months though! He is the sweetest, funniest, cuddliest bird I have every known! A lot of people don't realize that a chicken can be just as fulfilling as a large exotic bird!

 

[Dust Bunny]

i once lived in a cruddy apartment, in the lease agreement it said that it was OK to have "cage birds" well you know in my book a chicken put into a cage becomes, you guessed it

a cage bird

the apt manager put a note on my door basically saying that my pets (2 oeg bantams) belonged on a farm in the country and that they would have to go! i agreed and moved to the country WITH my birds

but back to your question, i have no idea why people get their panties in a bunch over chickens, 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!