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Despite visions of quaint coops, happy birds and cheap eggs, the growing trend of raising backyard chickens in urban settings is backfiring, critics say, as disillusioned city dwellers dump unwanted fowl on animal shelters and sanctuaries.

Hundreds of chickens, sometimes dozens at a time, are being abandoned each year at the nation’s shelters from California to New York as some hipster farmers discover that hens lay eggs for two years, but can live for a good decade longer, and that actually raising the birds can be noisy, messy, labor-intensive and expensive.

Enthusiasts who start out with good intentions frequently wind up posting messages like this one delivered to Britton-Clouse last month:

“One of our hens grew up into a rooster and our neighbors are starting to complain. Do you know someone who might take him?”

“People don’t know what they’re doing,” Britton Clouse said. “And you’ve got this whole culture of people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing teaching every other idiot out there.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/backyard- ... 6C10533508

Stupid fucks.

Order chicks that have been sexed
Kill all the roosters that slipped through sexing process- it does happen
Raise hens and eat eggs
After a year kill all the hens and eat them
Begin the new year with a new order of chicks

If you you prefer a more self sustaining method. Keep a rooster around and forget ordering chicks every spring. Even then, your going to want to inject some new blood every once in a while.

Only a bunch of hipsters would have to ask what to do with unwanted chickens. Eat them fuckers you dumb shits!

This shit isn't rocket science

If you want something more in a chicken coop, we know of a few stylish options. Like Moop, for example, the Modern Coop for Design-Minded Chickens. This is designed by prefab and architecture firm Nottoscale and includes four cantilevered nesting boxes, hinged side-panel walls for easy access, a redwood screen for ventilation, a removable tray for easy cleaning, predator-proof latches, extra-strength chicken wire, and custom watering accessories. Moop is priced with one run ($600) or two runs ($800), and the water accessories sell for $95 each.

http://www.jetsongreen.com/2012/12/moop ... ornia.html

Turdacious wrote:

Despite visions of quaint coops, happy birds and cheap eggs, the growing trend of raising backyard chickens in urban settings is backfiring, critics say, as disillusioned city dwellers dump unwanted fowl on animal shelters and sanctuaries.

This is how we got 15-meter alligators in the sewer systems.

Roosters are awesome. A good deal more personality than the hens.

Only a stupid dirty hipster would turn in a perfectly good chicken to the animal shelter.

WildGorillaMan wrote:Only a stupid dirty hipster would turn in a perfectly good chicken to the animal shelter.

No shit. I'd snap it's neck , pluck that fucker and then bake it up.

My grandma had chickens for fresh eggs and occasionally one of the girls who was no longer producing got sacrificed for her awesome baked chiken.

The other thing is these dirty hippy fucks don't understand how you actually need to clean their area. Grandma retired to the mountians of W.Va. and the Coop was a good distance from the house and nowhere near the well.

We had problems in our hood in So Fla with Mexicentralamericans raising chickens in their backyards with their 3rd world cleanliness standards plus roosters crowing at first light when your just going to bed.

I shot one with my 30-06 one morning when I had enough of that shit. Not like they could call the cops if they saw me ( They didn't I laid under a derelict truck parked by the crackhouse that had line of sight with their backyard and waited 20 minutes to sneak out.) because they were not supposed to be raising the fucking things there in the first place.

Animal control was always shutting them down and then there were the ones who were raising fighting cocks. It got bad for awhile to the point we would bitch "Broadview! Crackheads, HUDS (Hos Under Development), Pitbulls and Cocka Doodle Doo muthafucker!"

Sometimes the crackheads would steal them from the Mexicans. Buddy said he saw one running down the street with a chicken under his arm like a football and a Mexican running after with a machete in his hand, screaming in Spanish. About the only time anyone there rooted for a Rockmonster!

Blaidd Drwg wrote:Roosters are awesome. A good deal more personality than the hens.

I feel for you.
http://www.travelandleisure.com/article ... hipsters/2

A couple of months ago, I twice saw a chicken hanging on on the sidewalk as I walked to or from work. I thought this was funny, so I took a picture. When I got home, I told my wife that I took a picture of some stranger's cock on the way home from work. She thought that was less funny than I did.

I haven't seen the chicken since then. My guess is that the hipster chicken decided to cross the road, but tried to do it ironically.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the road crossed the chicken...

Batboy2/75 wrote:Only a bunch of hipsters would have to ask what to do with unwanted chickens. Eat them fuckers you dumb shits!