Comment on More chickens!

DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No one is questioning the need for roosts, but if you keep a roost in an urban environment, you’re an asshole.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    maybe a few geese? (from what I’ve read)

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    • maturelemontree@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you’re making a recommendation of geese over roosters for annoyance you must not have spent much time around geese.

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      • luciferofastora@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        My childhood neighbour (great aunt or whatever around some corners, we called her auntie even if she technically wasn’t) had hens. Their rooster was fairly chill, but unfortunately mortal and eventually supplanted by a younger. That cunt was a genuine asshole, about what you’d expect from a young cock without anyone to trim his wings (figuratively, but also literally - mate could jump up to a kid’s eye level with them things).

        Where his predecessor had come to know us and tolerated us near the hens, the young punk was out for fucking blood. Whether he was jealous that the hens would come running to us, whether he thought he needed to protect them from what they clearly didn’t see as threat or whether he was trying to play the tough guy in front of his chicks, I don’t know. Bottom line, we stopped visiting the hens.

        And I’d still take him over geese.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You gotta have a cock to cock block hawks

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Same can be said for anyone with a outside dog.

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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  • luciferofastora@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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, but I think it stopped eventually.

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• modus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Many cities and suburbs only allow hens.

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• AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep. This was a neighbor’s rooster until their dog got off his leash and ate him.

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