They're not legal in city limits here, thankfully.
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Chickens. Fine. In my experience most people with chickens also have a rooster. If you own a rooster and live in close proximity to anyone, you're an asshole.
Many cities and suburbs only allow hens.
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.
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.
You gotta have a cock to cock block hawks
maybe a few geese? (from what I've read)
If you're making a recommendation of geese over roosters for annoyance you must not have spent much time around geese.
My childhood neighbour (great aunt or whatever around some corners, we called her auntie even if she technically wasn't) had chickens. 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.
Everyone complains about my rooster, but no one complains about our neighbor that goes out into his back yard and just screams "Hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" at 3 am every night.
He is just keeping the property values low for the affordability crisis.
My neighbor does the same. Just puts a few rounds into the ground in case anyone was thinking about gentrifying the place.
that's just Bert. He's cool
Same can be said for anyone with a outside dog.
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 or found some other end, but I think it stopped eventually.
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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A couple of my neighbors have chickens here in suburbia, and there's at least one rooster around. I don't complain because I'm old and up at dawn anyway.
Much better than my neighbor's dog that barked at me viciously whenever I went in my backyard. Call me whatever you want, but I'm glad that dog finally died.
I have a couple of neighborhood dogs that I wish death upon. The reality is that I hate the people more for not doing something about it. Both the dog and owner are ruining a peaceful day, so you can't feel too bad.
I have lived next door to chickens, which is fine, but roosters? Those fuckers start screaming at 4 a.m., no joke. It's a lot louder than you imagine.
So, if your rooster turns up dead, shit happens.
No one wants a rooster anyways. They suck lol
I disagree, and my rooster is an asshole.
They serve multiple purposes, and can be good company.
My rooster? Saved the hens multiple times. Literally broke a spur off in a dog's ass. A pit bull at that. Ran that bitch off, and that's after losing said spur, handfuls of feathers, and dripping blood of his own.
Before that series of attacks by the dog, he was chill as fuck. He'd just follow me around, picking things up and putting them down so everyone would know it was there. Sometimes, he'd be in the mood and jump up to be held. He'd come inside sometimes and just sit on my kid's lap getting petted.
It's why, despite him having gone full asshole after we lost hens, I still want him around. I'm hoping my current program will get him back to his old self. But even if he doesn't, I want him.
Every now and then, that old self peeks through, and we have little moments of mutual respect and affection, and it's awesome.
He's not the loving companion my hen is, that's not how roosters roll usually. But he was my buddy, and I hope we will be again.
In the Philippines roosters are permanently broken and mostly roost at night including in the middle of Manila because they use them for fighting.
The downside of living in the city with chickens is the smell and noise, but the chickens will just have to get used to it. ~ paraphrasing Sir Terry Pratchett.
Best Pratchett to ever preach it.
Reminds me of the time I forgot to remove a pocket knife from my keys before going through airport security...
Staff member holds it up, I notice it and am like "oh no, that's not allowed, right? oh well, then throw it away, I forgot about it..." - staff proceeds to measure the blade length and tell me "no, it's ok, that's allowed" and hands it back to me. I still have that pocket knife now, but don't intend to try that again.
If AI is so great and TSA so necessary why haven’t they replaced TSA with AI yet?
Because you need a place to stick all the assholes with a control complex that didn't even cut it by police standards.
I have this thing called a utili-key, which is a 6-in-1 multitool that folds up into the shape of a key. I've flown with it numerous times, TSA never even had a clue it was on my keyring. I went to one fucking Philadelphia 76ers game and they confiscated it. Perfectly encapsulates TSA.
The TSA was once tested by sending 100 people through with guns, knives, and simulated explosives.
95 of them got through the TSA security checks with no problems.
Damn fuckers are so busy fondling balls and looking for shampoo bottles, they've forgotten what they're actually supposed to be doing there.
Oh, and another fun fact: The TSA has never once stopped an actual terrorist. There have been several terrorist attacks attempted at airports since then which were caught and stopped, but they were all caught and stopped by other airport or airline staff, or by other passengers. The TSA didn't catch a single one, not even one in their entire history as an organization.
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I love the city chickens. Bok bok!
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