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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.  Keeping chickens a great hobby, doesn't have to be messy and is great fun for children. Suburban chicken coops are architecturally interesting and safe from foxes and very easy to maintain.[/quote]

You are so ironic. And romantic. I don't think you have the first clue.

I associate chickens living in close proximity with humans with rural America, poverty and developing nations. I'm not sure why you are striving for that. During the Great Depression the biggest stigma you could have was chickens -- meant you were almost foreclosed upon. [/quote]

Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it...time for you to get a "first clue". The problem is clearly stated in your last paragraph "I associate...", which is your problem, not others. I can fall for that trap, saying I associate people who associate raising chickens in the backyard for eggs, meat and pets as being poor, I associate those people as being elitist among other things but lets not go there. Let's educate....during the Great Depression, if you had ready food sources such as chickens, pigs, cattle, you were admired and envied. It meant you had barter goods when others had none, because really most people didn't have ready cash. You could trade food stuffs for labor. Remember the iconic pictures of New York City during the Great Depression? Men and children on corners selling apples for a penny each, these people were city dwellers, not the farmers coming into town. Even the rich, families such as the Vanderbilts, had chickens being raised on their many estates, locations such as those in New York, Rhode Island and North Carolina. Besides that some of the mansions had dairy farms on site as an example. These were people that basically can be considered some of the top 10 richest people/families in the world at that time, and we are discussing even in the Depression era...so I guess you would call them poor as a result? Time for you to re-associate yourself with history and then maybe you will better appreciate it, that is unless you are originally from the developing nations you so look down on....which the US was still in the process of during the era of the Great Depression....[/quote]

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