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 ...
They make great soup, thougn. Especially during cold and flu season.
Actually I wrote a paper about chickens once ... won the pulletser prize for it
Your pet - it’s what’s for dinner.
That's eggsactly what I was going to say.
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 its 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 dont 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
MP3 recording of a rooster crowing?
I’m not telling...
I think this particular rooster was a bit tipsy.
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?
That's beak-cause of all of the feathery adjectives you used.
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.
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.
LOL
I wrote a paper about chickens once ... won the pulletser prize for it
Roosters are not supposed to crow at midnight.
8-)
Chickens are an endangered species in San Francisco. Or at least they ought to be. Enough said.
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.
No clue who or why. We wondered if it might have been a response to the McCain/Palin signs in our yard.
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