Posted on 07/14/2007 4:53:58 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
When a neighbor's rooster began crowing in the middle of her pool party last month and everyone laughed, Virginia Paris did, too, but privately, she was seething. Already, marauding hens had ransacked her flower garden; now, an unruly cock was conjuring Old MacDonald for her guests. ---snip---
Backyard poultry have been popping up all over Prince William County recently, to the amusement-- and alarm -- of residents and county
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Welcome to the third world.
Actually, I’m cracking up here. One of my many many sisters-in-law is a total loon (as in she should be committed). She keeps chickens as pets. Her favorite sleeps in the garage.
those are the best words to describe whats going on
loads of new immigrant neighbors?
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Yeah, I left out a couple of steps. 8-)
I was pleased to elaborate your excellent point. :O)
Chickens eat lots of bugs in the backyard.
Best are guinea hens, who eat ticks and who will run off strangers in your yard.
Que the Duck...
People have them in my area (lyme disease territory) but the area includes small farms. I have wild turkeys and birdfeeder birds for the ticks.
“Best are guinea hens, who eat ticks and who will run off strangers in your yard.”
Do they taste like chicken?
The chickens down here keep the scorpians in check and i dont know what the peacocks do
Poultry popping up all over? So who said there’s no free lunch?
those are the best words to describe whats going on
loads of new immigrant neighbors?
Chickens are trendy to keep among the those who aspire to be trendy.
Chickens eat ticks too, and give better eggs.
Have the same problem in my neighborhood. But no recent immigrants, just mouth-breathing dumb rednecks.
Make better soup too
The problem here is mouth-breathing dumb carpetbaggers.
If you have chickens in your yard you may be a redneck.
lol!
Reminds me of when I was around 3 or 4 years old.. We (my family) had a pet duck (in the middle of a city!) that we kept in the back yard. My father told me that 1 time a dog came through the open gate toward me and the duck ran quaking and flapping his wings toward the dog (to protect me) and scared the sh!t out of the dog,, who ran out of the yard yelping!!!
I guess he was a good guard duck ;)
(true story, as far I I know)!
If you use the term “carpetbagger” you too may be a redneck. :)
“...an unruly cock...”
I used to have one of those...
Damn straight I am. Proud of it, too!
I used to think that was bad, until I moved here and found the slack-jaw, booger-eating ones...
5.56mm
They’ve been in Berkeley for years.........
Just remember that "It's the farmer that feeds us all". If hard times come around again those that know how to keep chickens and grow veggies will eat and those that don't know, won't.
Peacocks eat snakes!
As well you should be...chickens and all. But really, who uses the word carpet bagger anymore. :)
Yea but they make more noise than a dozen regular chickens. I shot the last one I had on the farm many years ago. I couldn’t catch it and was sick of the noise. I hate the things.
We use the term “damn yankees”.
LOL.
Mouth-breathing, dumb rednecks?
Never heard of such a critter here in Tennessee.
We do have some know it all northerners move in here now and again, and we feed them to the chickens, AFTER they have eaten our corn we get from a jar (grin).
“Rocky Top, You’ll always be . . Home sweet home to me . .”
I have been seriously thinking about getting chickens on my very large piece of ground. I want pure eggs and chickens not injected with antiobotics and hormones like you buy in a grocery store.
These chickens would fare well from all the bugs available, and could free range around my property, eating well and dropping me enough eggs to compliment my tastes and recipes.
I know they are nasty (their droppings) so I’d have to have a coop for them and a plan to wash their poop out to fertilize my grass. The coop could hold laying hens, and between me and my well fed dogs, we could keep other predators away.
WE also have some big owls and hawks here, so it would be a challenge, but I am considering this to eat meat not injected with steroids, antibiotics, ect.
Apparently we don’t have a lot of big predators here, or we wouldn’t have so many deer (which are currently destroying my green beans). The chickens could eat the ticks, and some of the deer could end up in our freezer.
Sounds like a plan to me.
“and not even post where his neighborhood is.”
Kingman AZ. Nice weather. Growing area. Moderate housing prices. Also...payday loan joints, pawn shops, low wages, very high HS dropout rate, domestic violence, meth use, etc. Large amount of people who, if given a choice between investing in their kids education or getting a big shiny pickup, will get the pickup. And the only reason the place is growing is because people like myself are moving in.
Do they taste like chicken?”
NO they are all dark meat and are much better then chicken!
“It’s the farmer that feeds us all”.
1/2 acre or smaller lots. They are NOT farmers. And letting chickens run around in your yard or in the street does not take a lot of know-how......totally uneducated third world villagers have been doing it since forever. Rocket science it ain’t.
People have them in my area (lyme disease territory) but the area includes small farms. I have wild turkeys and birdfeeder birds for the ticks.
I just had a case of Lyme disease that I got from a tick on some farm property I bought. You can bet that I am going to get some guinea hens for that little problem.
The Lyme disease is utterly debilitating. Thank goodness for antibiotics. I am back to normal now.
Do what most of my neighbors do.
Have guineas for free range, because they will clean you out of bugs. Guineas can fend for themselves, altho giving them some feed in the same area every day makes them understand where “home” is.
Keep chickens in a large covered pen w/nesting house - get lots of eggs and stew chicken while at the same time protecting them against coyotes, fox and hawks.
I have a friend who “collects” roosters of many varieties because he just likes the oddity of most of them.
The funny part is, he gives them all names of friends of his based on some attribute in common, like baldness or wattles or whatever.
You know you’ve “arrived” when one of the roosters is named after you.
Thanks for the info.
I’ll check into these. I really don’t trust the food mass produced anymore. My sister raised chickens once (when her husband worked offshore) and she hated the aspect of being tied down, as they have to be fed every day.
If the price of meat (and the news about tainted food from China) continues to get worse I may do this.
I've been there, too hot! other than that it's ok.
Ok but the snakes eat the rats
I’m glad you’ve recovered. The guy I bought my house from said he’d had Lyme’s disease but he was the type to spend time in the woods. I try to avoid the woods during tick season.
The vast majority of hippie communes collapsed because of the lack of knowledge of how to grow food on their own land, usually 40 or more acres. Try growing your own food for a year, it will give you a lot more respect for those "uneducated third world villagers".
PS: Sneering down ones nose at others is not very becoming, or FReeperish.
You obviously do not know the differance between totally uneducated in the formal 1st World sense and the word stupid. I was sneering at no one but the dumba** locals here who have taken a pass on every opportunity the country offers. Like I said, Mohave County is a state leader in H.S. dropouts. Anyone who thinks that learning ends at age 18, never touches a book and does not give a rats *** about their kids finishing H.S. deserves my disdain. And they are not farmers. The communes died out because most of them realized that it was not all laying around and watching the corn grow, it actually took work. In that way they were much like soviet collectives. Who wants to bust their ass when they are not going to see any benefit from working harder than the next guy.
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