• neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      16·
      6 days 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·
      6 days 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·
      5 days 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
    15·
    6 days ago

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

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      6 days 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.

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
    21·
    7 days 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

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 days 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.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days 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

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    7 days 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.