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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you want chickens?

Eeewww. Chickenshit everywhere. Screams, "I am poor."

What are you going to do when they stop laying eggs in a few years? Stew 'em? [/quote]

LOL, from one that has obviously never kept poultry of any kind. Its not everywhere, its mainly in the litter which you clean out of the coop either weekly or if you use a deep litter solution, maybe once every several months. You take the litter and compost it, using it in your garden or flower beds. How different is it with having cats and dogs? They crap everywhere as well when allowed outside and you have to clean up after them as well (that is unless you let them crap in your neighbor's space or in the common areas of your neighborhood and just ignore it, how declasse is that?) Watch out for that sandbox you have out there for your kiddies, cats and widl animals just love crapping in that! What is funny to me is that I have seen people spend $3,000 to $5,000 for a chicken coop to where it matched the house and was climate controlled and such, yeah looks like that "screams, I am poor" to me. So I guess the farmer that raises hens just outside your living area, the one that sells natural eggs with no steroids, antibiotics and such, the egss you crave as being healthier to eat, that farmer is just a poor little soul and you are making their life better by buying their product? Yeah that just screams, "I'm better than YOU!"

Raising chickens in a backyard takes works, which is perfect in teaching children numerous things, which are knowing from where their food comes from (and not just from a big bank account), responsibility, discipline, a feeling of satisfaction in seeing a reward for one's hard work, a feeling of self-worth much more than one having the highest score in the neighborhood on the latest XBox 360 or PS3 game. But then again I guess rich people don't want their children to have the opportunity to earn those distinctions, ie responsibility, discipliine, a sense of accomplishment?that is greater than everyone on the soccer team getting a reward even when you lose. Why earn them when your parents have apparently done so by making alot of money in their career? Their children must be bestowed those attributes due to their families' standing in the communities in which they live, not by their earning them individually, an extension of the protecting of self-esteem that occurs from the minute they leave the womb.

What do you think they do with all the production hens that lay the million of eggs you get in the grocery store? Well, when they start to decline in egg production, they force them into molting their feathers so they will have one more period/burst of egg production after the feathers grow back and then they slaughter them where you eat them later whether sold as whole hens, parts or ground up as chicken by-products. What difference is there from having backyard chickens? Well some people don't process them (ie stew, fry or boil) but keep them as pets. Much like those real bird hunters out there that once their bird dog reaches an age it can't keep up with the birds, it becomes a pet...it isn't put down just because it can't hunt anymore.

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