Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:disgusting and thank GOD illegal in fairfax county

please explain this. how so? and what experiences have you had that render this conclusion?

We lived next door to a neighbor who had 5-6 chickens. They would often get out and run around the nearby yards picking up all the grass and ground until it was bare dirt. Chickens shit all over the ground so there was always a stench coming from the neighbor's yard , especially when it rained. Eventually enough neighbors were fed up and called Fairfax county zoning. Zoning came and made them get rid of all of the chickens.

"The keeping of livestock or domestic fowl is allowed as an accessory use on any lot of two (2) acres or more in size. "
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/faqs/zoning.htm#animals

I am thankful of this also. Thye really smell. And they are noisy.

Anonymous wrote:Back in the day, having to keep chickens on your property was a sign of poverty and was a source of shame.

Just saying.

Those days are over.

Just saying.

Die, thread, die!!

My chickens ran away. It happen about the same time I stopped providing free wifi.

I would love chickens in my neighborhood more than anything in the entire world. Please move next to me with your chickens! Please, I am totally serious!

I've been dying to have chickens for years!

Wow, "scream poverty", "for the poors". I have chickens. We live in a three million dollar home, send our children to independent schools, have zero debt (other than our mortgage, which will be paid off next year). Have you opened a Southern Living Magazine or a Williams and Sonoma catalog?

Did your yuppie chickens blow over into my yard on Monday? If so, come and get 'em by 11pm bedtime!

well I have read bits and pieces of this and I am seeing a lot of sterotypes. To be honest I have had chickens for awhile and I find the hobby to be comical and educational for my family. Having the chickens is a unique way to teach him responsibility. Watching them in the mornings after feeding them can be quite amusing. Weather having chickens is gross or not is truly up to the person caring for them. We only had about 5 hens and a rooster and maintained the coop so we never had a foul smell coming from the pen and the coops can be pretty whimsicle. Chicken hobbist have become very creative with the set up. So before anyone decides to judge open your mind up to the thought. If you do not like the hobby well, keep the thoughts to yourself.

Again, with the backyard chickens thread? Guess people can't resist.

Oh, yeah. Chickens just scream poverty:



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57528904/neiman-marcus-offers-$100k-chicken-coop/

Always follow the money. How much money does the evil factory farming industry control? How much money do they throw their sicko buddies in the pharmaceutical industry for animal drugs and their or the pyschopaths running the food biosciences industry(read gmo soy and corn) Then you get sick from their crap and you drop all you money on medical bills. So when you have people trying to drum up opposition to a simple thing like backyard chickens; when you have people making absolutely absurd arguments that obviously defy what is good for us our futures and or planet....think hard and outside of the box for who these people might be and what might really be motivating them. Paid shills to keep the status quo to try and keep us all sick and under their control most likely. We are winning though.

Anonymous wrote:this thread is hilarious! really? most of you all are angry because people want to own chickens yet you dress your dogs and half pick up their shit from the sidewalks. puh-lease. my grandmother's neighbors have chicken and the birds don't cause my grandmother any issues.

go on and get your chickens, lady.

the poster who said owning chickens was a sign of poverty eons ago...who gives a shit! you sound like a nut even saying that.

live and let live.

I like your attitude

I smell "fowl" play