>It's illegal to have chickens in your apartment and in HOAs

>It's illegal to have chickens in your apartment and in HOAs

How long until the next big American Black Market occurs over the obscured price of eggs?

The War on Chicken.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >black market
    Farmers markets exist.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >How long until

      I am not gonna be a dick about it, but I am saying those are going to be illegal or heavily regulated in the near future because of the regulations involved in the egg industry and city politics. People are going to figure out that can just get their own eggs with chickens.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        lol, I live in Los Angeles, one of the most heavily government regulated cities in probably the most heavily government regulated state in the US.

        The liberals here fricking love their farmers markets, I don't see them going away anytime soon.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The liberals here fricking love their farmers markets
          Just tell them they're dangerous and they'll hate anyone who goes there.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            lol, I live in Los Angeles, one of the most heavily government regulated cities in probably the most heavily government regulated state in the US.

            The liberals here fricking love their farmers markets, I don't see them going away anytime soon.

            Farmer's markets are mostly white (or at least non-black) and usually it's men selling. Point this out and leftists will boycott them

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The liberals here fricking love their farmers markets
          Just tell them they're dangerous and they'll hate anyone who goes there.

          >farmers markets
          I know someone who operates one round here. He purchases fruits and vegetables from wholesalers and doesn't grow shit himself. He then resells the produce at huge markups to clueless urbanite trendies who don't know any better.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Correct. Often it’s the rejects from Walmart that get sold for pennies on the dollar. They then mark it up as “natural” because of the blemishes that make it not sell to normies at the joo mart. Twice the price for rejected produce and no work on the “farmers” part. Sounds like farmers market vendors to me.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Wasn't that one milk market shutdown by heavily armed cops and fbi agents in LA because it was selling fully organic unhomogenized milk. Farmers are actually leaving CA because of the jackboot regulations.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There are truly malevolent actors in government. Particularly among democrats. But most of the problems they create are due to incompetence.
        They aren't going to shut down farmers markets. Socialism regimes like North Korea actually rely on technically illegal farmers markets to feed their population because they realized that governments suck at feeding people.
        What's most likely is that they will keep fricking up the supply chain on the macro level and then act like they are being benevolent by "allowing" us to shop at farmers markets.
        It's kinda like how now we are all suffering from high fuel prices and they harp on about how much cheaper electric cars are to run (except in California) as if we all have the means to switch to an electric car on a whim, or if an electric car would be feasible for many families, or as if we even have enough production of EVs to actually be an option for a nationwide switch.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The U.S. does not have the electrical infrastructure to support a total switch to EV's. It would require rework of the grid as a whole from the individual residence up. Then add in the push by these knuckleheads to get rid of gas appliances.

          So I chalk it up to a combination of sheer ignorance, arrogance AND malevolence one rarely encounters outside of government bureaucracies.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Take the quail pill anon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I heard they can be fragile.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      too bad you have to eat like 20 eggs to feel like you even ate anything.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        tf you have for digestive tract, are you a cow or something because you must have multiple stomachs

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here in Italy I'm allowed to raise any animal I want in my yard and can legally acquire guns with an easy to obtain certificate.
    What freedoms do americans have that I don't exactly?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Can't stop the wop

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Buying handguns. Buying rifles. Carrying a handgun. Shooting Black folk and commies with said handgun when they get up to their usual bullshit.

      Don't compare rural America to urban America. Or even rural Italy to urban America. Urbanites deserve all the derision they get and shouldnt be compared to humans.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You're not allowed to shoot people

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >What freedoms do americans have that I don't exactly?
      I came here to post this from a similar draconian shithole. Just build a Chicken Tractor and threaten to shoot the cops that show up and attempt to fine you. Like your birds are more important than 6-year-olds shooting up schools? Tell them to frick off and let your birds roam around and eat grubs

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's perfectly legal to have chickens in your apartment, it's not the government telling you you can't, it's the landlord.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It's perfectly legal to have chickens in your apartment
      It's also a pretty miserable experience

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You just need ventilation bro

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Boomers:
          >I need a fan and filter to hide my illegal pot growop
          Zoomers:
          >I need a fan and filter to hide my illegal chicken coop

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My city of 550K people allows a wide variety of livestock. Suck it, coasties.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    jesus frick they just make everything illegal nowadays

  7. 1 year ago
    Homelessathome

    Im from Village so we have our chickens and eggs every day so we dont really care about the price,but yea eggs are expensive now lmao

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Are there particularly quiet breeds of laying chicken ideal for stealth chicken keeping?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Lavender Orpingtons are the nicest & quietest I've heard. I have a couple & it checks out in my experience, so I recommend them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thats a very aesthetic chicken, but I imagine I'd be very lucky to find those here.
        I wonder if Australorps would have a similar temperament.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Australorps should be good to

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Are they a particularly hardy breed? Been workin on a chicken coop with my family in SD and wondering how they'd do.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, & they're supposed to be cold resistant which is a plus. They aren't really confrontational but due to their size they don't really get picked on by other breeds often. Easily my favorite.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hey, dumb question comming through...

        Do you slaughter your egg laying chickens after a certain amount of time or are these not really that good for eating?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Only slaughter them after a LONG time (8 years) unless you have some kind of efficiency operation going. Like if you dont have multiple roosters, so that you make more chicks for free, then dont slaughter them like that. You can at the end of their lives slaughter them and make chicken soup or feed them to your dogs/cats (very healthy). Hens lay fewer eggs as time goes on but yeah you dont want to slaughter them needlessly like that without a breeding or efficiency operation. If its such a big deal to have 2 fewer eggs per week then just buy an extra bird.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Thanks for the reply

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Lots of old recipes for chicken are meant for hens that stopped laying. Coq Au Vin is one of the more well known ones.

            We tended to keep them around even if they stopped laying as they did keep the yard free of pests, and by the time they really stop laying they are almost family.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Lots of old recipes for chicken are meant for hens that stopped laying. Coq Au Vin is one of the more well known ones.
              You're mixing it up with Poule Au Pot ; although I see no issue using an old hen for Coq Au Vin.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Older hens also are a benefit to younger chickens. They teach them how to behave, evade predators, and forage more efficiently. They even get them to be more trusting towards you IMO. Healthier for the sociability of the younger chickens. Coq au vin is for roosters, but yes “the old bird gets the soup”. Kek

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Frick that shit. I live next to Mexicans who just got a fricking rooster and that thing wakes up the whole neighborhood. The neighbor called city zoning on their ass

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      your neighbor is a snitch and snitches should be killed.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Roosters are miserable to live around. Nearly no one likes to wake up at 430am, especially if they're not getting eggs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      my neighbours have chickens and an illegal rooster and it makes less offensive noise than any of the people that live there. Getting the birds raised the average likability of their household significantly.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Take the duck pill. Bigger eggs and quacks are cute and quite.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You know who not to trust in your neighborhood then. Snitches get stiches,

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Idk man just break the rules. Free men don't ask. Also don't live in an apartment or HOA lmao.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The fricking state of America. You can smuggle endless amounts of migrants but don't you dare bring eggs or cheap gas back. Clown world.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you get what you vote for
        i bet you're not even a card carrying party member lol skrub

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        israelites like

        Frick that shit. I live next to Mexicans who just got a fricking rooster and that thing wakes up the whole neighborhood. The neighbor called city zoning on their ass

        and his neighbors import the mexicans, and then call SWAT because the wetback wont eat the goyslop. Clown fricking world.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Frick you b***h. Who the frick wants to live next to a rooster? If your broke ass can't afford the extra $3 for a dozen eggs I'll pay for it

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Keep a rooster, wake up all your neighbours at 5 am FRICK EM

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nice wiener

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Brahma. Fantastic birds

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Wtf is that. Is that real?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      BWC

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Mios dios, el diablo los pollo

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm in the middle of indianapolis with no HOA. Actually i'm currently renting a house. Rules for indianapolis are 12 chickens and one rooster, no rules on ducks. so i've got everything but a rooster. Pretty relaxed rules.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Get two roosters
      >Tell the city that one of the roosters identifies as a hen
      Checkmate liberals

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      everything is better than fort wayne anon. just remember that

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    stealing this thread but how is keeping geese compared to ducks or chickens? geese seem like a pretty good option because you get down from them aswell as eggs and meat, thinking of making a small coop some day and just looking at options.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'd like to get a goose sometime. You need a lot of space for them to graze because their diet is primarily grass. They lay very few eggs per year but they fetch a good price if they're fertilized. Selling geese, goslings and fertilized eggs have better profit margins than chickens or ducks. Idk about selling the feathers though. dont know anyone thats been successful with it personally

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >buy property
    >let some moron tell you what to do with it
    Why?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's just zone stuff I guess. Or you'd have some mongoloid trying to keep a dairy cow in his apartment in town. Move PrepHole and have as many damn chickens as you want. I worked on a farm where guy previously had like over 100 just running all over the place still one area of the farm nicknamed rooster corner because there was wild ones living up there for ages

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Chickens are an amazing animal to keep around. They are like a barn cat in many ways.
    First off we can eat chickens and there eggs, and that's cool on its own.
    Secondly if you have a proper plot of land chickens can survive by scratching with little to no supplemented feed.
    This is a big one the keep pests down, tick, lady bugs, even snakes can be keep at bay by a good flock.
    Lastly all the poop is a good fertilizer.
    In short if you have land chickens can be a low maintenance self sustaining food and sanitation solution.

    Why do you think THEY would want to keep you from them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The poop cant be added to soil directly, it burns the soil as it breaks down. Duck poop can be added directly.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There's no harm in using treated pine posts to build a chicken run, right?
    It's not like they're going to eat the wood or anything.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My experience is that chickens scratch anything and eat lots of stuff that doesn't look like food. Part of it is that they're eating grit on purpose, part of it is that they're about as smart as can of marbles.

      Treated wood can contain arsenic. I'm not saying your chickens will get arsenic poisoning, but it seems like something you should consider. Maybe float the question by whoever is your local expert on poultry.
      >reee PrepHole hates ""experts""
      ask someone who actually knows, look up poultry associations etc, don't bother with the bureaucrats who push papers and pretend to be cowboys at the local watering hole

      My guess is that results may vary with your choice of treated wood. I wouldn't use treated wood for a cutting board, but my life expectancy is 80 years. Chickens get somewhere around 1/10th of that, so maybe it doesn't matter as much.
      >then again, maybe arsenic/whatever bioaccumulates in the eggs
      >probably overthinking it at this point, but who knows

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Since it's just for the posts I suppose it'd be easier for me to just wrap the bottom foot or so in some thin steel so they can't eat it.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A real man makes do

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      funny how it's legal for bilions of birds like this to be kept in a small pen where they never see sunlight and have the tips of their beaks and the edges of their wings cut off but lord forbid you want to keep some in your apartment. For a setup like this, what is the bareminimum that the chickkies need? Just a lighting and heat source with a place to roost and lay eggs?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        When you look at it this way, everything they do is explainable: if it makes you independent, it’s illegal and le bad. If it supports their system, it’s tolerated and legal.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can I use shells from the beach as a calcium/grit supplement for my chickens?
    I figure I'd boil and then crush them.
    I live right near the beach and it'd give the kids something productive to do.
    What about cuttlebone?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yep, shells are the exact type of grit they love.Even sand, I mean the ladies here even eat just pebbles.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just bought a dozen pastured eggs for $3.50 fresh from a local farm. Just stop letting the grocery stores gouge you. Take the local pill.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Citygaya and their suburban bug comrades are something else
    >Chickens? Um yikes sweety that has no place here, they poop which can smell and cause climate change and roosters are hekin loud!
    >Dogs? Yass queen have as many as you want and let them bark all day and night and shit the sidewalk and maul people and let's build a $2 million dog park park for them!

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any other turkey egg Chads here?
    AMA about turkey eggs and their superiority to chicken eggs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I ate them and can attest they are far superior to chicken eggs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And they’re like eating a damn dinosaur egg they’re so fricking big!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How many chicken eggs is one turkey egg? 3?
      How often do yours lay? I imagine you'd need a few turkeys to have an egg daily yeah?
      Are they real fricking bastard animals?? I met a turkey once and he was a real piece of shit. Not that that's a bad thing.
      Are they as vulnerable to foxes / coyotes as chickens? They're bigger and they're bastards so I wonder if the predators would think twice.
      Been thinking about keeping some of my own at some point.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >How many chicken eggs is one turkey egg? 3?
        Yeah
        >How often do yours lay? I imagine you'd need a few turkeys to have an egg daily yeah?
        a turkey hen will lay about three eggs a week under good conditions
        >Are they real fricking bastard animals?? I met a turkey once and he was a real piece of shit. Not that that's a bad thing.
        My girls are cute and funny. My tom is a bit of an butthole to strangers though. He also humps the girls so much he lost all the feathers on his chest in the middle of winter.
        >Are they as vulnerable to foxes / coyotes as chickens?
        Much less so. They are still critically vulnerable at night though. I keep a light on for mine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/5i8dcTX.jpg

        >How many chicken eggs is one turkey egg? 3?
        Yeah
        >How often do yours lay? I imagine you'd need a few turkeys to have an egg daily yeah?
        a turkey hen will lay about three eggs a week under good conditions
        >Are they real fricking bastard animals?? I met a turkey once and he was a real piece of shit. Not that that's a bad thing.
        My girls are cute and funny. My tom is a bit of an butthole to strangers though. He also humps the girls so much he lost all the feathers on his chest in the middle of winter.
        >Are they as vulnerable to foxes / coyotes as chickens?
        Much less so. They are still critically vulnerable at night though. I keep a light on for mine.

        Some of the girls

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When they say chickens need so many hours of sunlight a day, does that have to be direct sun like it would be for a plant?
    I want to keep mine in a shady spot with some trees, but it doesn't get much direct sun, it's bright and well lit, but it's just not direct.

    Am I being autistic and it's basically just that they need knowledge it's daytime?
    I know they technically don't photosynthesise, but do they kind of?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Im not sure if its like a viramin D thing like it is for people or if its a circadian rythem thing. The first one would mean theyve actually got to go out in the sun, but the latter would mean they just need a few windows.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I once looked at the initial investment required to get 4 or so birds for a dozen eggs every couple days. At the end, I realized it'd take 4 years to see any ROI, and that's assuming none die or I don't frick something up. Right now egg prices suck, but they aren't high enough to justify raising my own birds.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >it'd take 4 years to see any ROI
      lolwut?, is the fricking coop gilded with vaulted ceilings?
      just get more birds, sell the extra to neighbors

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    live chickens are like $30 now though

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >HOAs
    They’re a joke. I’ll roll strangler fig seeds in balls of clay and throw them onto roofs and into gutters before I let the HOA tell me what I can and can’t do

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Blew my mind to hear that Americans aren't allowed to keep animals in their own property.
    Always lived in the city, grandma owned 15+ goats, ducks, and chickens.
    Moved, now we own 6 chickens +2 roosters, wanna get some ducks too soon. Neighbors own a few Dwarf Goats

    I thought Americans were free? All these "local laws", "ordinances", "HOA rules" just seem like horseshit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hello europeasant, "America " is a big place with many different local governments with various rules. chickens are fine almost everywhere. Outlawing camping and defending your daughter from being raped sound like horseshit to me but such is life in enlightened Europe.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Want chickens
    >Have wanted chickens for years
    >Mom won't let me have chickens
    >Now egg shortages are on the rise, and people are buying up all the chickens

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is your name Ed by chance?

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bros I love my chookies so much
    But they don't eat vegetable scraps.
    Is there a way to encourage this?
    Would dicing/grating the scraps help them eventually pick at larger pieces?
    They're only 9 weeks old, is this something they pick up as they get older?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That would help, I started mine on veggies that way. Also, I had some luck with giving them large chunks of boiled harder vegetables like carrots to make them easier to peck apart when they were young a couple times to get them used to tearing apart larger chunks. They really didn't go after the larger stuff until they were a few months old but yours might be different.

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