• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    3 months 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.

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 months 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. She 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.

        • IronBird@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          have you tried using a spray-water bottle to punish bad behavior, it works on dogs and cats maybe it’ll work on something less intelligent?

    • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      3 months 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.

      We had a cockerel named Papa Stroganoff, he’s one of the ones we got from my principal. The reason he was named thus, is because at one point she’d brought home leftover stroganoff from the school lunch, and when she dumped it out for the chickens to eat, he dashed up and sorted out all of the sausage pieces to one side for the hens to eat.

      He was such a good rooster.

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
    21·
    3 months 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

    • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      16·
      3 months 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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      5·
      3 months 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.

    • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      3 months 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).

  • JupiterSnarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

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

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      3 months 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.

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
    10·
    3 months 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.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months 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