Thanks for the story and the ping, Girl.
When I was a kid we lived next door to my Grandparents and they had about an acre lot. My Grandad had fruit trees and always planted a large garden and my Grandma had a chicken house and raised them for eggs and meat, didn’t know what a white egg was until I was older. I learned to chop off the chickens heads when I was still pretty young, PETA wasn’t around then as I recall. LOL!
This was in town, not out in the country. Many others raised chickens and I remember the roosters crowing early in the mornings. I suppose it couldn’t be done now, people would complain of the noise.
We do it. We've got around 45 chickens, two of which are Roo's. None of our neighbors complain. They don't even complain about the smell.