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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on June 20, 2017, 05:53:26 PM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018959880
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 07:31 PM
Star Member mopinko (49,203 posts)
slow news day in chicago.
front page.
‘Chicken lady’ in Rogers Park ruffles neighborhood feathers
Some dismiss people who try to bring farms into city as quirky — or worse
http://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=1b487217-77e5-42f3-95b3-2423d34dabd1
eta- this is me.
Your neighbors can't wait for you to GET OUT.
Follow the link for the article. I can't bear to imagine what it must be like living next to this moron.
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Star Member mopinko (49,203 posts)
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‘Chicken lady’ in Rogers Park ruffles neighborhood feathers
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eta- this is me.
Repetitive and redundant.
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I am all for urban agriculture but it looks like she has taken it too far, typical for a primitive. Most urban areas around these parts (small cities) allow backyard hens but no roosters for good reason. My rooster is a noisy SOB and starts crowing before the sun comes up. He would be on my dinner table if he wasn't a good example (yes I have a nice cock ;)) of a endangered breed.
But like a primitive she has to take things too far and annoy everyone around her.
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I am all for urban agriculture but it looks like she has taken it too far, typical for a primitive. Most urban areas around these parts (small cities) allow backyard hens but no roosters for good reason. My rooster is a noisy SOB and starts crowing before the sun comes up. He would be on my dinner table if he wasn't a good example (yes I have a nice cock ;)) of a endangered breed.
But like a primitive she has to take things too far and annoy everyone around her.
Exactly. I personally have no problem with it either- two of my neighbors do it in fact. But they keep things neat and tidy, and realize that some things just don't belong in the city, no matter how farm-like you want to make your "farm".
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Cue DUmmy Laydeebug...any tethering involved?
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I am all for urban agriculture but it looks like she has taken it too far, typical for a primitive. Most urban areas around these parts (small cities) allow backyard hens but no roosters for good reason. My rooster is a noisy SOB and starts crowing before the sun comes up. He would be on my dinner table if he wasn't a good example (yes I have a nice cock ;)) of a endangered breed.
But like a primitive she has to take things too far and annoy everyone around her.
I can tell you that fresh chicken eggs are better than store bought. My neighbor has chickens that lay light green or blue eggs. Their smaller than I usually buy at the grocery store; but they taste better. Yes...I can tell a difference.
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Any reader would who wants to know what a kook Mo is just needs to read the 2nd half of the 1st sentence of the article.
Mo Cahill opened the back door of a baby-blue truck she keeps in her backyard as a makeshift chicken coop.
Just a thought, maybe one or more of her neighbors can start breeding weasels or foxes...that might sort out the rooster issue.
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Any reader would who wants to know what a kook Mo is just needs to read the 2nd half of the 1st sentence of the article.
Just a thought, maybe one or more of her neighbors can start breeding weasels or foxes...that might sort out the rooster issue.
It's Chicago weasels are plentiful and are causing most of the problem. :wink:
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It must be a real nice looking place with a junk vehicle being used as a chicken coop.
When I lived in Miami a neighbor got a rooster, it was annoying until I got a pellet gun, they had chicken for dinner that night. :-) :-)
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It must be a real nice looking place with a junk vehicle being used as a chicken coop.
When I lived in Miami a neighbor got a rooster, it was annoying until I got a pellet gun, they had chicken for dinner that night. :-) :-)
Ain't it funny how that happens? :whistling:
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I can tell you that fresh chicken eggs are better than store bought. My neighbor has chickens that lay light green or blue eggs. Their smaller than I usually buy at the grocery store; but they taste better. Yes...I can tell a difference.
I have a few of those. My big seller has been duck eggs though. Richer flavor that is great for baking, but not many small holders want to put up with ducks as they are pretty messy.
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I have a few of those. My big seller has been duck eggs though. Richer flavor that is great for baking, but not many small holders want to put up with ducks as they are pretty messy.
Ducks and geese are both poop making machines.
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WTH is wrong with you people? You live in a freaking city and find the crowing of a freaking rooster to get your panties all in a bunch?
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Ducks and geese are both poop making machines.
^^^^ True dat! Especially geese. Amazing how much output they have. I sincerely believe they could give the dump a run for their money in the full of shit category.
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I am all for urban agriculture but it looks like she has taken it too far, typical for a primitive. Most urban areas around these parts (small cities) allow backyard hens but no roosters for good reason. My rooster is a noisy SOB and starts crowing before the sun comes up. He would be on my dinner table if he wasn't a good example (yes I have a nice cock ;)) of a endangered breed.
But like a primitive she has to take things too far and annoy everyone around her.
We had a rooster at the farm, mean-ass SOB. He tried to spur me ONE time, and I punted his ass thru a barbed wire fence. He left me alone after that, but every time I catch him sleeping on the headgate at the barn when I went out to get the milk cows, I'd knock him off of it and yell "WAKE UP"!! I hated him, but I'm sure the feeling was mutual, and I still don't give a shit!! :lol:
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We had a rooster at the farm, mean-ass SOB. He tried to spur me ONE time, and I punted his ass thru a barbed wire fence. He left me alone after that, but every time I catch him sleeping on the headgate at the barn when I went out to get the milk cows, I'd knock him off of it and yell "WAKE UP"!! I hated him, but I'm sure the feeling was mutual, and I still don't give a shit!! :lol:
Hawks had gotten all our chickens but one old hen,and she was a LOT smarter than the typical hen. She would hide close to the house or shop,or even under a car or truck to do her pecking. If she ran out of insects,she would wait for someone to come walking by,and get right up by their heels and follow them to the shop,house,or wherever else they were going. She roosted in the shop. I would go in there at night to work on the Harley I was building,and she would get pissed off at the lights and the radio,and come storming over clucking,and peck at me. I admired her spirit and thought she was funny,so I would just push her away until she got tired and went to sleep under the bench.
She lasted a good long time,too. Her downfall was when my truly mean cat had kittens in the shop. Once they got old enough they quit nursing and I had to feed them,the old hen got wise to the free food,so she would show up to peck the kittens to chase them off so she could eat the food,so I would hang around and chase her off.
One day she finally screwed up by confusing that mean old mama cat with the kittens,and pecked her on the head to run her off. Keep in mind the cat didn't mind sharing the food with the hen as long as the hen didn't interfere with her eating,but the hen go cocky and pecked her on the head. That was the end of that hen. Cat bit her right through the neck and held on. The hen was dead by the time I I got the cat off of her.
The only reason I got away with doing it was because the cat understood I was the source of the food. That was a mean cat. Chased one of my fathers friends out of the house one night because he made the mistake of taking his hat off to smack her and chase her out of a chair where he wanted to sit. She ran right up his arm and was going for his eyes before I could snatch her away. He wiped the blood away from his cheek and sat down in the chair thinking it was over,but she was pissed and started dancing around the chair up on her toes,and growling at him. After than he refused to even come in the house unless we locked the cat away in the bathroom.
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We have a feral cat that has a deal with our chickens. She eats everything but the head of the mouse and gives the head to the chickens.
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We have a feral cat that has a deal with our chickens. She eats everything but the head of the mouse and gives the head to the chickens.
When you think about it,there is no good reason for cats and chickens to not have a symbiotic relationship. Cats get,and hate fleas and ticks,and chickens are world champion flea and tick eaters.
If you live in a place with a lot of fleas and ticks and you can allow a couple of hens to patrol your yard every day,you won't have any problems with the fleas and ticks.
You MUST have a secure coop you can lock them up in at night,though. EVERYTHING that eats meat likes to eat chickens.
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You MUST have a secure coop you can lock them up in at night,though. EVERYTHING that eats meat likes to eat chickens.
Our neighbors have 5 chickens, two ducks and two turkeys that roam their fenced in backyard. They have a coop with a chickenwire fence around it, but they aren't locked up. The fowl share the yard with a Golden Retriever that nevers bothers them.
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Our neighbors have 5 chickens, two ducks and two turkeys that roam their fenced in backyard. They have a coop with a chickenwire fence around it, but they aren't locked up. The fowl share the yard with a Golden Retriever that nevers bothers them.
You must not have any racoons,foxes,or coyote in that area.
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When I was in high school, I had a friend who kept about four or five hens and a rooster, just for the eggs. This was in the mountains of North Carolina, so they didn't have air conditioning in their house (common around there). One summer, I visited Jake for a couple of days and stayed in their guest bedroom.
Foolishly, since it was a very pleasant night outside, I left the windows in the room open when I slept. That rooster managed to get up on the porch and then up into the opening of the window, then that sumbitch decided to crow at about 4:15 in the morning, right into that bedroom. I didn't grow up around chickens, so I had absolutely no idea how freaking LOUD a rooster is. I swear I dove out of bed and onto the floor like I was taking incoming shelling from 88mm mortars. After a few seconds of getting my wits about me after being shaken out of a deep, rather alcohol-induced sleep by that God-awful explosion of decibels, I punched that bastard right in the thorax and slammed the windows shut.
Lesson learned about roosters.
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When you think about it,there is no good reason for cats and chickens to not have a symbiotic relationship. Cats get,and hate fleas and ticks,and chickens are world champion flea and tick eaters.
If you live in a place with a lot of fleas and ticks and you can allow a couple of hens to patrol your yard every day,you won't have any problems with the fleas and ticks.
You MUST have a secure coop you can lock them up in at night,though. EVERYTHING that eats meat likes to eat chickens.
We have the chicken Fort Knox. Chain link, chicken wire buried 18" in the ground and two strands of electric fence. If something gets in there it's going to hurt them. LOL
We have all kinds of predators around but the only losses we had were a five to the neghbors dogs. One eaten by an eagle and one by a hawk.
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You must not have any racoons,foxes,or coyote in that area.
Even though I live in town, there are possums, raccoons, foxes and a few coyote roaming the area. Last fall I saw a coyote alongside a four lane highway two blocks from where I live.
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Even though I live in town, there are possums, raccoons, foxes and a few coyote roaming the area. Last fall I saw a coyote alongside a four lane highway two blocks from where I live.
Las fall I saw a good (i.e., "dead") coyote on the entrance ramp from I-787 to freebie I-90 in Albany NY. A decent-sized warehouse was 100 yards away, and people's homes were next to it. I also saw a "good" red fox on a road in my town (suburban) last summer. They adapt as well as the deer that show up in my backyard 4-5 times a week.
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Las fall I saw a good (i.e., "dead") coyote on the entrance ramp from I-787 to freebie I-90 in Albany NY. A decent-sized warehouse was 100 yards away, and people's homes were next to it. I also saw a "good" red fox on a road in my town (suburban) last summer. They adapt as well as the deer that show up in my backyard 4-5 times a week.
This town is small enough, 70K or so that we have corn and soybean fields growing within the city limits.
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This town is small enough, 70K or so that we have corn and soybean fields growing within the city limits.
I was doing some mowing of the 800 sq. ft. backyard earlier this afternoon and there were deer hoofprints four feet from the living room window. No wonder Oreo (out cat) goes batshit at night sometimes. She's 13 years old, and she still thinks she's in a past life, where she was a 120-pound killing machine in the Adirondacks, or a 500-pound killing machine on the Serengeti. :o