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Backyard chicken farmer here! If you have a bit of yard space and time they make wonderful pets. About as difficult to care for as cats and what they lack in cu
by schmichael 12y ago
Backyard chicken farmer here! If you have a bit of yard space and time they make wonderful pets. About as difficult to care for as cats and what they lack in cuddles they make up for in hilarious/idiotic behavior.
I doubt it saves me any money, but it's fun and provides lots of "organic pasture-raised" eggs and compost.
- codingdave 12y agoThey are also a great way to reduce your waste. We send all of our kitchen scraps to the chickens, and they give us eggs in return. They also keep the area under our apple tress fairly clear for us, eating all the insects that otherwise would be in our trees, and keeping the mice away. And they get to munch on any fallen apples. Works out well for the chickens and for us.
- pimlottc 12y ago> And they get to munch on any fallen apples. Hmm, I wonder if they like lemons...
- schmichael 12y agoBe careful with birds and citrus. Do some googling.
- nitrogen 12y agoJust don't let them near anything you don't want them to defecate on. They will defecate everywhere they go, including on expensive equipment and cars when they sneak into your garage.
- schmichael 12y agoIt makes me really happy that you talk about chicken poop and your nick is nitrogen.
- nitrogen 12y agoHeheh. I do embedded and back-end development, so my nick is actually a reference to the fact that nitrogen is the most common gas in Earth's atmosphere that, like embedded firmware and back-end software, is absolutely essential and inadequately appreciated.