Backyard chickens-who has them and do your neighbors care?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really? It's for poors? Someone needs to tell Martha Stewart.

http://www.marthastewart.com/264904/backyard-chickens-for-beginners

Don't you love it when some idiot discovers an old thread and resurrects it?

Yes, it's for the poors. Did you really just hold Martha Stewart up as a barometer of taste or something? I mean, the woman is 70 years old, so I guess I can see how she might still be confusing the way she did things in the 1940s and 1950s as sophisticated or in good taste.

As for the idiot posting the poultry pictures, so what? They're animals. That we eat. Who cares?

You are simply an ugly person. Judgmental, rude, ugly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking to get a coop for our 1/2 acre backyard with maybe 3-4 chickens. Well kept in ordinance of the 100 ft law in Mont Co. I'm not planning on a rooster since that would be rude and annoying to us and to our neighbors. Just wondering if anyone else upcounty is doing the same and if their neighbors have said anything or even noticed?

Backyard chickens? Who gives a cluck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking to get a coop for our 1/2 acre backyard with maybe 3-4 chickens. Well kept in ordinance of the 100 ft law in Mont Co. I'm not planning on a rooster since that would be rude and annoying to us and to our neighbors. Just wondering if anyone else upcounty is doing the same and if their neighbors have said anything or even noticed?

Backyard chickens? Who gives a cluck!

Cluck you...

Chicken is a place in adams morgan

[Anonymous]

Be more likely to get salmonella from your grocery store than my organic vegetable garden or my neighbors chickens. Or hey, try some store bought mass produced berries for a nice dose of hepatitis A! Or grab some ground beef and treat yourself to a slimming diet of E cola. My garden, my neighbors, my local farmers mArket and butcher all keep us quite healthy and preservative free.
You should build a gate and start a HOA since you're so preoccupied with what the neighbors are doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really? It's for poors? Someone needs to tell Martha Stewart.

http://www.marthastewart.com/264904/backyard-chickens-for-beginners

Don't you love it when some idiot discovers an old thread and resurrects it?

Yes, it's for the poors. Did you really just hold Martha Stewart up as a barometer of taste or something? I mean, the woman is 70 years old, so I guess I can see how she might still be confusing the way she did things in the 1940s and 1950s as sophisticated or in good taste.

As for the idiot posting the poultry pictures, so what? They're animals. That we eat. Who cares?

Give Martha a break. She had to use tubes of toothpaste for hair rollers when she was in the pen at Anderson. What she wouldn't have done for a blue Aruncuana egg.

[Anonymous]

Fie in your bucket of humble! A pox on your swiss chard! A plague in your chicken house!

[Anonymous]

70 isn't old; you know nothing. That said, some chickens are quieter than children and more delicious.

[Anonymous]

My son's school rented two chickens and kept them for a month for a unit on "sharing the Earth." I enjoyed our daily visits to the coop enough that I researched renting a pair for the summer. Unfortunately, DC law wouldn't let us keep them in our rowhouse backyard.

[Anonymous]

I am considering getting chickens. I can easily afford my own eggs from the store, but keeping chickens would mean healthier eggs.
We are not into mass produced food or manufactured food products or take out food. Just need good old fashioned edible food and want to know what goes into it

[Anonymous]

A new ordinance is in the final draft stages, and will be up for a vote in Montgomery County, MD in summer or fall 2013. Here is a new informational/advocacy web site which summarizing the key issues, and how to get in touch with local politicians to make chicken-friendly law a reality: montgomerycountybackyardchickens.org

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son's school rented two chickens and kept them for a month for a unit on "sharing the Earth." I enjoyed our daily visits to the coop enough that I researched renting a pair for the summer. Unfortunately, DC law wouldn't let us keep them in our rowhouse backyard.

We're at the same school in K. I looked into this too and since it was only for a month... and neighbors were cool with it. Unfortunately, could not get the coop into our rowhouse backyard since access is through our house, no alley, and the coop is too wide to fit through the doors. We are going to do the egg hatching.

[Anonymous]

I live inside the Beltway and am currently chicken-sitting for my vacationing neighbors. Pros: No smell, delicious eggs, funny animals that follow you all around the yard. Cons: Poop everywhere. You're tied to a schedule much more so than, say, a cat. And did I mention the poop? Final verdict: Fun to be a temporary caretaker. No longer interested in a flock of my own.

[Anonymous]

PP, how do you clean up after them? A hose? Curious.

[Anonymous]

We live in CA, and it's a sign of wealth and smarts to have chickens in our area. Nobody thinks you're on the verge of homelessness. They think you're a foodie is all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, no plans on eating the chickens but will love me some fresh, organic eggs that I KNOW are organic because I raised them. I think it's cool that they will free range in plenty of space and my child will learn about something unique and have a neat experience. For me it's a hobby and something I want to do. I'm really not surprised by some comments that chickens are "gross" and you can catch "xyz"-all of which are hilarious to me. Ignorance.

If you are managing the chicken coop well and don't have way too many chickens they shouldn't smell at all.If you smell chickens, you smell mis-management. To the PP above, if your FIL had secured his coop with proper chicken wire and a protected run that should not have occurred really. But there are predators out there just as alligators prey on people's little dogs is southern states. I don't think that means they shouldn't have dogs anymore. They should protect their pets.

In my experience here, people have a negative connotation associated with chickens. Last time I brought it up to someone they exclaimed, "Oh if that's something YOU'RE into, then good for you" in a condescending tone. I really wish people were more open-minded. We are not poor, quite the contrary

Then, one poster here has chickens?! I wonder if my neighbors will be opposed so they are not associated with "the chickens next door"? Hmmm

If you want fresh, organic eggs, order them from South Mountain Creamery.

You are seriously a fool. Why you would subject your neighbors to your foolishness is beyond me. I mean, are deliberately setting out to erode property values or something?

Op here. Nice promo and no thanks. How do you know my neighbor does not have chickens and I'm curious how an immaculately maintained 1/2 acre with a nice garden and landscaping is eroding property value? You would not be able to hear or see the chickens unless you are sitting in my backyard petting one.

If he Sesttle area, raising your own chickens is a very trendy thing to do. It goes along with the whole 'sustainable living'way of thinking, because you know that's what Seattle's All about-- sustainable,'organic , no waste (plastic bag ban anyone) and hybrids