• krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
              01·
              11 days ago

              I don’t know why people are so defensive about the fact that cats enjoy killing things for pleasure. They love seeing things in pain. They love watching them die slowly.

        • affenlehrer@feddit.org
          1·
          11 days ago

          Have you seen their genitalia? They kind of have to. Besides that I’ve seen very cute and happy looking duck couples.

          • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
            1·
            11 days ago

            Afaik it evolved like that for better raping. At least that’s what our biology teacher told us, after we had to watch a video about duck mating.

            There are also no real couples. Most of the time several males try to get it on with the same duck and it’s not rare that their object of desire drowns because they can’t wait their turn. Nature is fucked up.

            • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
              1·
              11 days ago

              Ducks have diverse mating habits, like humans. They don’t have to rape, but they will when there’s overcrowding, males outcompete females, and/or they live in an urban environment where females lack the strength and space to escape.

              Otherwise, most species of ducks form seasonal pair bonds with new mates each year. Some come back to the same mate each year, which isn’t quite the same as monogamy since they don’t stick together when not fucking and rearing young. A few ducks will mate for life, and a lot of larger waterfowl, like geese and swans, are monogamous.

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    Around mid-2020 I worked at a callcenter. The organization I worked for had lower tiers of support via a callcenter in the Philippines and higher tiers via the stateside callcenter I worked at. When everyone went remote some of the staff at the Philipines callcenter emigrated to other countries and there was one particular member who always had some very noisy chickens in the background of their calls. It seriously reminded me how nice remote work can be for folks because this guy was chilling at home with his chickens nearby instead of in a stuffy office with a bunch of other unhappy underpaid callcenter workers. It was funny though how some customers reacted to it, sometimes it would just be one more thing for angry customers to complain about and other times it would be a wistful thing a customer commented about in a later positive review

    • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      10 days ago

      It’s illegal on my town to have chickens on anything less than 5 acres. I have an acre that backs up to woods far enough away that a couple hens would be no problem, but nope. One of my neighbors has 4.6 acres and used to have chickens but had to get rid of them when they changed the law. Its extra sad that my house is an original 1900s farm house with the original barn that used to have donkeys, chickens, goats and a few cows sitting on 20 acres, now I’ll get fined to oblivion if I so much as get 1 quail.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      1·
      10 days ago

      I don’t think it’s exactly against the law. Though the local HOA might have something to say about it.

      But noise complaints are noise complaints, whether or not you like the sound of chickens if they’re being too loud you’re going to get a knock on the door. Same as if you had a very annoying dog.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    I used to have chickens in a city when it wasn’t legal. They got reported and we had to rehome them. They were fun, though, and having fresh eggs was always great.

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Oh yeah. Next door neighbor. She’s been a nightmare. She threw fits demanding we move one of our fences. She systematically sprayed our plants with Round Up every year. She once hired unqualified dumbasses to cut down one of their trees which hit our house on the way down. (They felled it from the bottom “TIMBER” style as if it wasn’t a crowded suburban residential neighborhood.)

        Yeah, she was a huge pain to live right next to. And then she died and her daughter moved in. And she’s just as bad. :\ We just avoid her.

        • IronBird@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 days ago

          have you tried using a spray-water bottle to punish bad behavior, it works on dogs and cats maybe it’ll work on something less intelligent?

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Fuck roosters.

    It is an utter mystery to me that after how many millennia of raising chickens that somebody hasn’t bred a mute rooster.

  • JupiterSnarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    I have neighbors with chickens 2 houses down. I can attest that the chicken sounds bring unexplained joy.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    I moved into a house with roommates who had chickens. It wasn’t great. The chickens were cool, but they attract vermin. We had a real rat issue for a while, and they wouldn’t believe me that the rats were going after the chicken feed/poop, as well as the warmth of the coop. Then, they got tired of tending to the birds and rehomed them. Sure enough, the rat problem vanished.

    Edit: I appreciate that everyone wants to give me chicken tips, but they birds weren’t ever mine, I didn’t ever want the birds, and we no longer have the birds, so the tips aren’t doing anything for me.

    • zout@fedia.io
      1·
      11 days ago

      I have chickens, but no rats because I took precautions against rats, foxes, martens and whatever else roams outside. It’s not even difficult to do this, just make sure there’s no food laying around, and plan for the coop to be vermin proof.

      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 days ago

        Stores that sell chicken supplies often sell vermin resistant metal trash cans with snug fitting lids. Just dump the feed in there.

    • Anivia@feddit.org
      1·
      10 days ago

      Sounds like the chickens were just severely overfed if they had excess food available for rats to steal. If you feed them only the right amount they need, they are going to kill and eat any rat attempting to steal their food without hesitation. They are predators after all