• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    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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      15 days ago

      Everyone complains about my rooster, but no one complains about our neighbor that goes out into his back yard and just screams “Hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” at 3 am every night.

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        14 days ago

        He is just keeping the property values low for the affordability crisis.

        My neighbor does the same. Just puts a few rounds into the ground in case anyone was thinking about gentrifying the place.

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          14 days ago

          Make sure to thank him for his service (anonymously, I will he you don’t want to direct his attention your way)

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      14 days ago

      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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      14 days 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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        14 days ago

        Yeah that shits way louder than a rooster.

        I usually just tune it out though. My neighbor has a loud dog that always barks when I go in my back yard lol. It’s my yard bitch

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        14 days ago

        Had a neighbour who generally wasn’t fit for pets. Whoever gave her a first dog to live in her tuna can of a smoker’s apartment ought to be sued for cruelty. Whoever gave her a second one should be forced to live with the lot.

        One or her dogs didn’t get along with the other. No clue why or what she tried, but I’m inclined to assume “nothing” and it sure didn’t work. Poor thing got locked out on the balcony instead. Whole neighbourhood got to hear his persistent cries of dismay. You’d think he’d accept his fate, but no, he’d bark hours on end. The hag had the nerve to be pissed at noise complaints too. Don’t recall if he was taken from her or found some other end, but I think it stopped eventually.