The one with the kid sat on it or the one in the chair? 
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The one with the smallest freaky mannequin on it. Not the freaky mannequin on the chair.
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Some years back a Trumpish Japanese real estate tycoon named Genshiro Kawamoto bought up a large chunk of one of our most prestigious neighborhoods, tore down the very pretty Hawaii-style houses that were there, then built rows of hideous mansions which sat empty for years until he filled some with homeless people. It was quite the clusterfuck:
Yeah, I had a neighbor who had a couple of chickens. He was a little careless, and now my neighborhood is overrun with feral chickens who foul everyone’s lawns and squawk all day and all night. I’d like to go back in time and change his mind. With a blunt instrument if necessary.
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Wow he must of been pretty careless. Tons of people have chickens here, including some one in my neighborhood (not remembers of the HOA). And its a farm town, so that’s been the case for like centuries. And they’re seldom penned in in any way. No feral chickens anywhere. Occasional problems with Guinea hens though. Those things suck. They’re loud, they’re dirty, they’re stupid, and they aren’t prodigious layers or particularly tasty.
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He’s only responsible for the chickens in my neighborhood; there have been similar incidents across the state, which is why we’re now blanketed in the damn things. In a low-density farm area there is probably more room for the chickens to roam without getting out of their yards, but I think this was an inevitable outcome of the urban chicken farming fad.
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When I moved up to the Northern 'Burbs of Chicago a few years ago, there was a house on my list that actually had a big plexi-glass dome as one of its many “features”
Sadly (perhaps fortunately) it was off the market before I could seriously put an offer on it.
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Maybe. But Chickens aren’t exactly… durable. Most breeds don’t do particularly well on their own. But several parks in NYC are loaded with feral chickens. I think Pellam Park in the Bronx, and a couple of the parks in Queens and Brooklyn. And they’ve been there for decades. If the standard story is to be believed, its down to Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and Cuban immigrants in these neighborhoods post WWII. Coming from cultures that prize fresh, home raised poultry members of these communities supposedly released chickens into nearby parks. The idea being to raise the chickens in the parks so you could head out and grab one for special occasions or to collect eggs on the regular. The chickens went feral though.
The thing is that’s all deliberate. And subsequent immigrant communities have kept the tradition going. New hens are regularly released to keep population up. Roosters are tossed out there to keep them breeding, and the birds are surreptitiously fed. They’d starve/die out or succumb to city eradication attempts otherwise.
So I’d be willing to bet without an outside food source and regular re-introduction your feral chickens will die out in a few years.
Though cows are also famously bad at living feral and this:
Still happened. I remember hearing the urban legend of ghost cows, evil spirits in cow form ETC in some mysterious part of Jersey as a teen (probably from Weird New Jersey). Promptly after I moved to Philly they found the damn thing.
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NYC has the advantage of cold winters. Unlike the local feral cats, I don’t think our local chickens are being fed by anyone, and the population just keeps increasing.
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Hey, free chickens! What are you complaining for? Go get your hatchet.
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Believe it or not, that’s illegal here.
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Self-defense is illegal? You have dinosaurs roaming your property, you’re well within your rights. That’s just basic bird law.
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Seems to be standard in locales with legal backyard chickens. We can have 4 birds, but it’s illegal for us to slaughter them on our own property.
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One way of stopping Satanic cults and biker gangs I guess.
Around here we have a covenant against chickens, but I would also like to have one against cats.
Are you allowed to do them indoors? Presumably the proscription is to spare neighbors the sight, smell, and other unpleasant experiences around animal slaughter. Keep it in your basement or garage and you should be fine.
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The code reads “on premises,” which means no. But, like, who would ever know if you did it right?
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The chicken.
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Was Mike a reliable witness?
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Animal sacrifice is constitutionally protected speech, tho.
Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah.
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I try and keep an eye on bird property development.
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