Backyard Chickens - Yes or No?

[PRC]

You can get eggs without roosters. Just no chicks.

No shit.  Did not know.

Yeah the rooster goes up to the eggs and fertilizes them. It always made me wonder if bird porn would just be looking at eggs.

   Stop messing with his over-urbanised head.

Those are the brown eggs in the grocery store.

[Grey Fox]

Yes.

When it comes to municipal elections, I am a single issue voter; wether they are pro allow backyard chickens.

[Valmy]

You can get eggs without roosters. Just no chicks.

No shit.  Did not know.

Yeah the rooster goes up to the eggs and fertilizes them. It always made me wonder if bird porn would just be looking at eggs.

Hush! That is totally how it works 

Those are the brown eggs in the grocery store.

Facts!

[HVC]

You can get eggs without roosters. Just no chicks.

No shit.  Did not know.

Yeah the rooster goes up to the eggs and fertilizes them. It always made me wonder if bird porn would just be looking at eggs.

Hush! That is totally how it works 

Don't forget they need to swim up a stream too!

[HVC]

Yes.

When it comes to municipal elections, I am a single issue voter; wether they are pro allow backyard chickens.

Seriously quail. Plus they're delicious.

[Grey Fox]

Around here, you can rent chickens for the summer and fall. It's not that expensive.

[viper37]

You can get eggs without roosters. Just no chicks.

No shit.  Did not know.

Yeah the rooster goes up to the eggs and fertilizes them. It always made me wonder if bird porn would just be looking at eggs.

   Stop messing with his over-urbanised head.

[viper37]

Yes.

When it comes to municipal elections, I am a single issue voter; wether they are pro allow backyard chickens.

Until they wake you up at 4:30 every summer days

[Razgovory]

I don't have a backyard.

[grumbler]

We have some around here, clipped.  They are free-range (cooping them seems cruel) and people have roosters to protect their chickens.  They'll generally stop anything smaller than a coyote, except weasels, from what I am told.

[Tonitrus]

You can get eggs without roosters. Just no chicks.

No shit.  Did not know.

Yeah the rooster goes up to the eggs and fertilizes them. It always made me wonder if bird porn would just be looking at eggs.

[Josquius]

Absolutely yes. I'd pay to have such a neighbour. Beats the plastic loving trash I have now.

[celedhring]

My grandmother used to keep chickens in her backyard (and she lived downtown) still can remember one of the roosters hurting me on the hand when I was little, the fucker.

She stopped doing it because she was growing too old to care after them, and supermarket poultry/eggs ultimately became so cheap.

[crazy canuck]

I would like to get one for our back yard.  But two things need to happen first.  Our dog goes to doggie heaven and we don't take anymore lengthy trips.

So years away, and by that time I will have found another excuse not to do it.

[Josephus]

You can get eggs without roosters. Just no chicks.

No shit.  Did not know.

Basically chicken menstrual cycle. . Egg pops out, but (on average) once a day. Think of that next time you eat an omelet

You know what I think about? How many chickens we slaughter a day. I thought about this once at a resort in Cuba. At lunch time they were roasting about 12 chickens on a spit. I figured they were doing this on all the resorts along the beach. One beach. Imagine all the beaches on all the resorts of the world. Then imagine all the restaurants and homes. Then think about how we also eat their means of reproduction. It's amazing we havent' driven them to extinction.

(note this is not a tree-hugging lefty post. I love meat. Just pointing out).