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Sunset may allow chicken keeping

No roosters | 4:45 p.m. June 19, 2009

I heard a good one about urban chicken raising the other day:

"If it lays, it stays. If it crows, it goes."

chickens | 5:21 p.m. June 19, 2009

I never have been able to understand why ANYBODY (except maybe major egg producers)would be opposed to anyone having a few chickens. They'll eat all the bugs, you get to see the food that the chicken eats to produce the eggs, they aerate the soil as they scratch and peck. But - Best of all - THEY DON'T BARK!!

I agree though NO ROOSTERS in the city, they're ALMOST as bad as the dogs!

Silva | 8:40 p.m. June 19, 2009

FDR said a chicken in every pot, not a chicken in every lot.

Mice, rats, lice, air borne disease in a suburban setting?

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Anonymous | 9:11 p.m. June 19, 2009

"FDR said a chicken in every pot, not a chicken in every lot." Hoover made this statement. Americans got the hunger of the Great Depression instead. This statement was one of the most ironic statements in American history.

A historical note: chicken was once too pricey to be served in most homes at the time of Hoover. After FDR and the infusion of federal money for the war, American recovered from the Great Depression to the point that chicken was common fare.

terisa | 1:51 a.m. June 20, 2009

I'm glad I live where I do... I have 7 chickys and yes 1 red rooster. and they are my pets they are free range chickys and don't bother anybody yes my rooster crows and makes alert sounds during the day to the dogs that running at large...my chickys ate in 2 weeks the mormon crickets the year we had a infestation of them!!! the mormon crickets were climbing up the wall of the bldg. of our P.O. grocery store. etc. they give me fresh eggs daily and do eat bug. and are just neat to watch. thanks~

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