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[–] 212 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 months ago (23 children)

    Thats a fuck ton of chickens.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (11 children)

    As someone with over 50, and hatching more this week, no it isn't.

    Well, it isn't when you have 14 acres... But man they're so fun to just sit and watch.

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  • [+] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    I generally get along with all our roos but we had a former rooster who would fight my partner every day. They would have to go outside with a stick in order to just let the dogs out.

    That roo found the cone real quick.

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    [–] 80 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Was this before or after 2001?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    wild. I had a tiny multi-tool with a less than 1-in blade confiscated. The tool was so small that I had forgotten about it inside my notepad

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    [–] 54 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Then you have to ask what other animals are allowed? I could do with borrowing a goat to mow the grass in my garden and clear up the weeds around my allotment.

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    Pretty sure goats are more useful for eating weeds compared to sheep who are too fussy to eat things like brambles.

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    [–] 53 points 2 months ago (30 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months 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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    [–] 34 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Next step is to buy 25 roosters and thick bedroom windows.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Extra points for guinea fowl. (They are EXTRA loud)

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    We had turkeys for a bit, and one of them we named Thanksgiving because holy fuck it would NEVER SHUT THE FUCK UP! It would just scream into the void all day.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    Exactly.

    Nothing is stopping me from calling my neighbours & telling them that I think their goat is in my garden.

    No matter how many times they tell me they don't have a goat, there's no proof that I can't assume whatever goat that's in my garden isn't theirs regardless of status or reality of said goat or garden.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    L about to have 25 roosters.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I love the city chickens. Bok bok!

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