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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Chickens are silly and wonderful.

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ducks too

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      • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ducks are violent rapists.

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  • BuckenBerry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fake: Anon goes outside Gay: Anon likes cocks

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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      • HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hey man, we just want people to be more true to themselves

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I used to have chickens in a city when it wasn’t legal. They got reported and we had to rehome them. They were fun, though, and having fresh eggs was always great.

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What a delight the person who reported you must be

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      • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh yeah. Next door neighbor. She’s been a nightmare. She threw fits demanding we move one of our fences. She systematically sprayed our plants with Round Up every year. The once hired unqualified dumbasses to cut down one of their trees which hit our house on the way down. (They felled it from the bottom “TIMBER” style as if it wasn’t a crowded suburban residential neighborhood.)

        Yeah, she was a huge pain to live right next to. And then she died and her daughter moved in. And she’s just as bad. :\ We just avoid her.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Where’d they end up?

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      • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t remember specifically, but we definitely gave them to a family we knew personally, and I’m sure they weren’t slaughtered or anything.

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      • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In the shredder

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  • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    not sure if it’s legal for them to own chicken

    Anon lives in a society.

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My old principal used to keep chickens, it’s from her we bought ours. Met her again many years later, and while catching up I inquired if she was still keeping chickens. Since the big bird flu thing in the 201Xs (I think) she stopped keeping them, because the law changed how you’re allowed to keep them, and she felt like while it’s obviously good from an epidemiological point of view, it’d reduce their overall quality of life and that just made her really depressed.

      I miss having chickens.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No roosters I guess

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    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My neighbor had chickens and a rooster. It was loud, as expected, but it was lazy and would only start later in the day. In actuality it was probably because it was young and separated from other roosters. It probably eventually would’ve done the morning routine but a fox got them all one day

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      • BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In Hawaii, roosters seem to crow whenever tf they want @.@

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A rooster is a male chicken.

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I moved into a house with roommates who had chickens. It wasn’t great. The chickens were cool, but they attract vermin. We had a real rat issue for a while, and they wouldn’t believe me that the rats were going after the chicken feed/poop, as well as the warmth of the coop. Then, they got tired of tending to the birds and rehomed them. Sure enough, the rat problem vanished.

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    • zout@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have chickens, but no rats because I took precautions against rats, foxes, martens and whatever else roams outside. It's not even difficult to do this, just make sure there's no food laying around, and plan for the coop to be vermin proof.

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      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Stores that sell chicken supplies often sell vermin resistant metal trash cans with snug fitting lids. Just dump the feed in there.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Chickens like to eat rats and mice

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds like the chickens were just severely overfed if they had access food available for rats to steal. Chickens will kill and eat a rat without hesitation otherwise

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks chickens

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Around mid-2020 I worked at a callcenter. The organization I worked for had lower tiers of support via a callcenter in the Philippines and higher tiers via the stateside callcenter I worked at. When everyone went remote some of the staff at the Philipines callcenter emigrated to other countries and there was one particular member who always had some very noisy chickens in the background of their calls. It seriously reminded me how nice remote work can be for folks because this guy was chilling at home with his chickens nearby instead of in a stuffy office with a bunch of other unhappy underpaid callcenter workers. It was funny though how some customers reacted to it, sometimes it would just be one more thing for angry customers to complain about and other times it would be a wistful thing a customer commented about in a later positive review

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  • taygaloocat@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What kind of miserable shithole would make it against the law to own chickens?

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    • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s illegal on my town to have chickens on anything less than 5 acres. I have an acre that backs up to woods far enough away that a couple hens would be no problem, but nope. One of my neighbors has 4.6 acres and used to have chickens but had to get rid of them when they changed the law. Its extra sad that my house is an original 1900s farm house with the original barn that used to have donkeys, chickens, goats and a few cows sitting on 20 acres, now I’ll get fined to oblivion if I so much as get 1 quail.

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      • dovah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They didn’t grand father him? That’s some bureaucratic bs.

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      • caboose2006@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And then I see factory egg farms and they put 10,000 chickens in 5 acres.

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    • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      USA

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s exactly against the law. Though the local HOA might have something to say about it.

      But noise complaints are noise complaints, whether or not you like the sound of chickens if they’re being too loud you’re going to get a knock on the door. Same as if you had a very annoying dog.

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      • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s against most city ordinances

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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        most cities in Canada have bylaws against it

        apparently you can have quail in some though

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My guess is “places that have lots of predators and don’t want them being attracted to residential areas”. I can see an argument for banning chickens in a suburb if, say, little Susie down the street got attacked by a hungry coyote that couldn’t make it into any of the coops (i have no clue if coyotes would attack a kid or not, just an example).

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There are some great chicken webcams in YouTube. One of them has a way to feed the chickens popcorn remotely for $1 and it’s awesome.

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  • KingDingbat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have neighbors with chickens 2 houses down. I can attest that the chicken sounds bring unexplained joy.

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s that involuntary contentedness noise they make that I love. I can’t even begin to describe it, but when you get a load of happy chickens loafing about somewhere warm they make a super-relaxing sound that’s like their equivalent of purring.

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  • Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    Behold one of mah emotional support hens

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Arise, chicken. Arise.

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    • fantacyde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Over here. Better reception.

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    • stretch2m@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s all fun and games until the rooster wakes you up at 4am.

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      • stretch2m@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Edit: sorry, I meant to reply to a different post, but I guess it still works.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ATHF reference in the wild

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Back in the 90’s before backyard chickens was a thing, I lived in the inner city in a neighborhood populated with lots of Puerto Ricans. Don’t know how long it was before I realized I heard roosters on the walk to the bus stop every morning. Now living in the burbs, my neighbors raise chickens, either they get tired of it after a year or their chickens get eaten by the foxes

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      my neighbors ate their chickens last year. i miss their eggs.

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same for me. My neighbors got some. Several other neighbors complained about the noise, but I just smile when I’m sitting here with the windows open and chicken noise in the background.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks chickens

    Thickens.

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    • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The plot…

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Then the homeowner’s assocition hears about it

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ok Ed

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Many door, yes, Ed-boy?

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  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck roosters.

    It is an utter mystery to me that after how many millennia of raising chickens that somebody hasn’t bred a mute rooster.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We had chickens growing up, but we had a large farm so they just sort of roamed around. I can’t imagine trying to keep them in a back garden of a normal house.

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s pretty low effort as long as you clip one of their wings to make sure they don’t fly away

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was thinking more about the space constraints. Chickens need quite a lot of space to be comfortable, both in terms of health but also because if they get stressed the attack each other. So they need space to spread out.

        Trying to do that in suburbia seems sort of unfair to the chickens you know. The garden I have right now would need to be at least five times the size it currently is in order to meet the minimum size, and it still wouldn’t comply because it’s basically all just concrete and borders. So it has to be both big and basically all grass.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Waking up to steadily increasing rooster calls is the nicest alarm clock IMO.

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stupid roosters, start off at full volume and save some time! (/s if it wasnt clear)

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      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not the volume that increases, it’s the frequency that increases until all the roosters are awake and the sun starts to peek over the horizon.

        It would be horrifying if they all caw’d at once.

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I love chickens

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    goddamn i want me some chickens.

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sometimes, on a walk or a bike ride, I’ll pass a yard with some chickens and it always makes me happy. There’s something to this.

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  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My neabor had chickens. But they were used for cock fighting :(

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a shame, they should have stuck to cock magic instead.

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