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Growing Number Of U.S. Urban Residents Turn To Chicken As Household Pets
AHN ^ | January 2, 2009

Posted on 01/02/2009 11:26:02 AM PST by george76

While thousands of dogs and cats are being given up by pet owners across the U.S. as times become harder, chickens are gaining popularity as household pets...

The rising popularity of the feathered creature is due to the chicken's ability to provide eggs, pest control, fertilizer and eventually meat. To address zoning regulations, homeowners are working to amend local laws ...

Some cities like New York, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle already allow chicken to be raised by urban residents

(Excerpt) Read more at allheadlinenews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Humor; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: 3rdworld; 3rdworldnonsense; cats; chickens; dogs; immigration; latinos; nowayhosea; pets; urban
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To: WildcatClan
You no want chicken. Chicken make lousy house pet.

They make great soup, thougn. Especially during cold and flu season.

21 posted on 01/02/2009 11:43:43 AM PST by Allegra
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To: george76
People who keep chickens as pets could run afoul of the law.

Actually I wrote a paper about chickens once ... won the pulletser prize for it

22 posted on 01/02/2009 11:44:06 AM PST by clamper1797 (I pledge to give the Obamanation the same level of support that the liberals gave GWB)
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To: george76

Your pet - it’s what’s for dinner.


23 posted on 01/02/2009 11:44:20 AM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: clamper1797
People who keep chickens as pets could run afoul of the law. Actually I wrote a paper about chickens once ... won the pulletser prize for it

That's eggsactly what I was going to say.

24 posted on 01/02/2009 11:46:04 AM PST by TonyStark
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To: Allegra
Every time I've lived in areas where there were chickens we would hear roosters crow at night.

Turns out the answer is simpler than you might think. First, roosters crow all the time. The connection with the sun coming up is a misconception. “They might, on occasion, crow right at dawn. But it’s just a coincidence,” Pete Alcorn (TransitionsAbroad.com) says. “Roosters crow whenever they feel like it: morning, noon and night, not to mention afternoon, evening and the parts of the day that don’t have names.”

Roosters crow because they hear other roosters crowing, to show that a certain place in the barnyard is their turf, to try and assert their authority over another rooster, or even to gloat when a hen cackles after laying an egg. Joe Faust, the Accidental Farmer (JoeCliffordFaust.com/chickens), says, “I think the general rule for this is that a rooster crows any time it wants to – or feels the need. For all I know, mine may crow on and off all night, but I just hear them in the morning.”

http://www.grit.com/Animals/Secret-of-the-Roosters-Crow.aspx

25 posted on 01/02/2009 11:46:12 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: Allegra

MP3 recording of a rooster crowing?

I’m not telling...


26 posted on 01/02/2009 11:46:18 AM PST by listenhillary (No representation without taxation! ~~ Mark Steyn)
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To: brytlea; listenhillary

I think this particular rooster was a bit tipsy.


27 posted on 01/02/2009 11:47:53 AM PST by Allegra
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To: kalee

Sorry to read of your loss and to be reminded that there are some sick people out there. Any idea why would someone would do that?


28 posted on 01/02/2009 11:47:57 AM PST by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain inalienable rights.)
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To: Allegra
Maybe he met a pretty redhead!

mamahen

29 posted on 01/02/2009 11:49:21 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: clamper1797
Actually I wrote a paper about chickens once ... won the pulletser prize for it

That's beak-cause of all of the feathery adjectives you used.

30 posted on 01/02/2009 11:49:51 AM PST by Allegra
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To: posterchild

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=duckbill+soup&spell=1

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,820 for duckbill soup.


31 posted on 01/02/2009 11:50:06 AM PST by listenhillary (No representation without taxation! ~~ Mark Steyn)
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To: Allegra
"Actually I wrote a paper about chickens once ... won the pulletser prize for it
That's beak-cause of all of the feathery adjectives you used.


Omelet all that go, and not start something...must'n...egg...them on.
32 posted on 01/02/2009 11:55:57 AM PST by PowderMonkey (Will Work for Ammo)
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To: TonyStark
It’s due to the rising popularity of being a Mexican, Hatian, or Chinese national living (legally or illegally) in America, nothing more.

Not necessarily true. When I moved to our current house 25 years ago I raised chickens, rare breeds. We ate and sold the eggs, and excess roosters I took to the livestock auction and made some nice money. I bought my chicks every spring from Murray McMurray. We still have three or four neighbors who raise birds. No illegals here... I love the sound of a rooster crowing in the morning.

33 posted on 01/02/2009 11:58:56 AM PST by steveo
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To: clamper1797; SunkenCiv; girlangler; LucyT; potlatch

LOL

I wrote a paper about chickens once ... won the pulletser prize for it


34 posted on 01/02/2009 11:59:03 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Allegra; BIGLOOK; Rembrandt

Roosters are not supposed to crow at midnight.

8-)


35 posted on 01/02/2009 12:00:39 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Marie2
“I checked the website to see if chickens were allowed in San Francisco, but there seems to be no directory of that.”

Chickens are an endangered species in San Francisco. Or at least they ought to be. Enough said.

36 posted on 01/02/2009 12:01:42 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: brytlea

When I lived in Costa Rica, the roosters crowed all day and sometimes as night too! But NEVER...NEVER at sunrise. I had to invest in an alarm clock.


37 posted on 01/02/2009 12:02:30 PM PST by Op-Head
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To: george76
Mmmmmmm... chicken milk!


38 posted on 01/02/2009 12:02:52 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Don't rush to be savage!.)
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To: posterchild

No clue who or why. We wondered if it might have been a response to the McCain/Palin signs in our yard.


39 posted on 01/02/2009 12:05:52 PM PST by kalee
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To: george76; clamper1797
Lol, and this is what the 'pulletser prize' looked like;


40 posted on 01/02/2009 12:07:50 PM PST by potlatch
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