I keep chickens because I enjoy them. I don’t waste food as they eat nearly all leftovers from the table. During the warmer months they get over 50% of the food they need from the land, and the droppings create the best fertilizer there is if composted properly.

I consider it stupid to take citizens right’s away by not letting them have chickens. The crow of a rooster will blend with the noises around a neighborhood much better than the sounds of trucks, squealing tires, and the like. Actually if you have one in the neighborhood, most people won’t even hear it after a few days.

I see chickens are supportive of the local human population… lol.

Alan, it may be less expensive and easier to buy eggs and pre-cut chickens in the store, but the reason why I like chickens is because they are an easy livestock animal to keep that helps maintain a self-sufficient lifestyle. I don’t trust the food supply anymore– did you know that some chickens are fed the remains of other dead birds, and antibiotics? And if meat and eggs prices go sky-high with this impending inflation that our government seemes determined to create, the sustainable homesteader is prepared. That’s why I want chickens– to have a cleaner and safer food supply and to be prepared when/if things go down.

Thanks for your comments, folks. We’ve got quite a bunch of cut ups around here! LOL

And in my town, we are still zoned for “fenced poultry.” LOL! So my chicks aren’t ‘underground’ per se, but I support it none the less.

I do have to point out that roosters are nuisance pets around here. We don’t have one. We want eggs, not baby chicks, so WHO CARES that we can’t have roosters. And I don’t want to get up at 4AM anyway! You?

Ivory