Chickens are silly and wonderful.
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Ducks too
Ducks are violent rapists.
They can be silly and wonderful AND violent rapists.
Humans can't. But ducks can.
Tbf, I've seen chickens peck a duck's brains out
Have you seen their genitalia? They kind of have to. Besides that I've seen very cute and happy looking duck couples.
Afaik it evolved like that for better raping. At least that's what our biology teacher told us, after we had to watch a video about duck mating.
There are also no real couples. Most of the time several males try to get it on with the same duck and it's not rare that their object of desire drowns because they can't wait their turn. Nature is fucked up.
Ducks have diverse mating habits, like humans. They don't have to rape, but they will when there's overcrowding, males outcompete females, and/or they live in an urban environment where females lack the strength and space to escape.
Otherwise, most species of ducks form seasonal pair bonds with new mates each year. Some come back to the same mate each year, which isn't quite the same as monogamy since they don't stick together when not fucking and rearing young. A few ducks will mate for life, and a lot of larger waterfowl, like geese and swans, are monogamous.
Thanks for the additional insights!
I knew at least the part about swans. There was a huge pair of swans treating the small town they chose to live in as their personal garden and terrorizing people in traffic (pedestrians but people in cars as well). They were horrible but also treated like a holy cow, nobody was allowed to touch them and the official stance of the town was to let them be. So from time to time there were swan caused traffic jams and children knew to avoid them.
I haven't even met them and I love those birds. Reminds me of Canada Gooses, the source of deep respect and utter annoyance as our avian fellow countrymen.
One of my BFFs is an environmental scientist who loves ducks, which means get loaded with duck facts that spill over onto others.
That's awesome! I love people who love what they do and can infodump you into oblivion. It shows they care and it spreads.
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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.
What a delight the person who reported you must be
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.
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?
Where'd they end up?
I don't remember specifically, but we definitely gave them to a family we knew personally, and I'm sure they weren't slaughtered or anything.
not sure if it's legal for them to own chicken
Anon lives in a society.
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.
Thanks chickens
No roosters I guess
My neighbor had chickens and a rooster. It was loud, as expected, but it was lazy and would only start later in the day. In actuality it was probably because it was young and separated from other roosters. It probably eventually would’ve done the morning routine but a fox got them all one day
In Hawaii, roosters seem to crow whenever tf they want @.@
They don't sing exclusively at dawn, but that's when they start
I moved into a house with roommates who had chickens. It wasn't great. The chickens were cool, but they attract vermin. We had a real rat issue for a while, and they wouldn't believe me that the rats were going after the chicken feed/poop, as well as the warmth of the coop. Then, they got tired of tending to the birds and rehomed them. Sure enough, the rat problem vanished.
Edit: I appreciate that everyone wants to give me chicken tips, but they birds weren't ever mine, I didn't ever want the birds, and we no longer have the birds, so the tips aren't doing anything for me.
I have chickens, but no rats because I took precautions against rats, foxes, martens and whatever else roams outside. It's not even difficult to do this, just make sure there's no food laying around, and plan for the coop to be vermin proof.
Stores that sell chicken supplies often sell vermin resistant metal trash cans with snug fitting lids. Just dump the feed in there.
Chickens like to eat rats and mice
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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
There are some great chicken webcams in YouTube. One of them has a way to feed the chickens popcorn remotely for $1 and it’s awesome.
Arise, chicken. Arise.
Over here. Better reception.
It's all fun and games until the rooster wakes you up at 4am.
Edit: sorry, I meant to reply to a different post, but I guess it still works.
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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.
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
my neighbors ate their chickens last year. i miss their eggs.
I have neighbors with chickens 2 houses down. I can attest that the chicken sounds bring unexplained joy.
Ok Ed
Then the homeowner's assocition hears about it
Thanks chickens
Thickens.
We had chickens growing up, but we had a large farm so they just sort of roamed around. I can't imagine trying to keep them in a back garden of a normal house.
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I love chickens
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.
goddamn i want me some chickens.
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