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More chickens! (discuss.online)
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[–] 54 points 4 months ago (24 children)

Chickens. Fine. In my experience most people with chickens also have a rooster. If you own a rooster and live in close proximity to anyone, you're an asshole.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Friends of my wife have chickens they raised from chicks. Only it's very hard to sex chicks and three of them grew up to be roosters. They eventually found someone out in the deep countryside who was willing to take them in as pets instead of chicken dinners. Until that time (which took nearly a year), they relied on anti-crow collars they found on Amazon - which seemed to half-strangle the roosters but didn't do much to discourage noise.

    My wife hates that I still refer to them as the rooster gimps.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    As someone with a chicken, rooster, guinea fowl, and a turkey. The rooster is necessary for hawk and eagle related reasons, turkey sure as shit isn't gonna do anything and the guinea are bitches.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    Same can be said for anyone with a outside dog.

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  • [+] 0 points 4 months ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (12 children)

    My back yard is overgrown really bad right now and the neighbor with the dogs has been doing his passive aggressive best to get me to act. I think I may find some goats.

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  • [+] -10 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    I mean it you got an overgrown backyard it sounds like you're kind of the asshole

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Please note, it's THEIR backyard.

    It's got nothing to do with you; that means you are the asshole (not kind of).

    Half of my back yard is wild with trees and bushes and tall grass, because I like my yard to sustain some small amount of wildlife. Squirrels, chipmunks, bees, rabbits, and even an owl live there. 100% better than your shit lawn, hands down.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Why? Unless it's growing into the neighbour's yard it shouldn't matter, and if it is growing in the neighbour can clip it back. Let the "weeds" bloom and nourish butterflies and bees. Let the thickets go and house a rabbit. Let the trees get scraggly and house more diverse birds.

    Why should the people trying to mimic English royalty by perpetuating laws established as hidden racism get to say what a yard looks like?

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    There are many weeds that are not native and shouldn't be allowed to florish. Many should be cut back and exterminated. By allowing them to grow they are creating not only a fire hazard but a propagation plant for weeds to every yard around them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    And you're assuming what they have growing.

    In my "overgrown" backyard I've only got native wildflowers (which can actually reduce risk of severe wildfire compared to all the grass that just dries up around me).

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