Lhude sing hana

[azurelunatic]

Suburban chickens are becoming à la mode. There's been a moderately active post on Nextdoor about Some Fucking Rooster. Approximately:

"Does anyone know where the rooster around [intersection] lives?"
"I do, did he escape?"
"No, he just CROWS AT 4 THE FUCK IN THE MORNING AND DOESN'T SHUT HIS BEAK."

I was flomped in bed with the curtains open. Faintly, in the distance, I heard crowing.


Murie sing hana.

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[ilyena_sylph]

When, some years ago, we bought bantam chicks, three of the six turned out to be roosters.

Someone in our area Called The Fucking Cops while we were frantically trying to find someone to take the boys rather than have to have them for dinner (look, they were Banties, they were tiny, wouldn't have been enough to be worthwhile).

That was fun.

[azurelunatic]

Those are scarcely a mouthful! Only good eating if you have kids who want a whole roast chicken at a doll tea party.

[konsectatrix]

Hahaha! This area's been mixed suburban/rural for years so chickens are fine, but the compromise made was that no one that isn't on an actual farm is allowed to keep roosters. They still happen of course, but if you don't have a neighbor close enough and/or willing to complain (or if they also have roosters), then it's not a problem until it's a problem. My sis-in-law had to get rid of two that turned out to be roosters in her clutch of chicks that were supposedly all female.

Peacocks tho, whoo boy. I have met nothing that hollers like a backyard peacock in spring. We used to hear them in the middle of the night when we lived in the middle of the city, too. We assumed they were escaping the zoo and wandering, or maybe somebody had a fancy courtyard with a peacock in it, but maybe we were really just hearing them all the way from West Philly. I'd believe it.

[vass]

a-DOODLE-DOOOOO

[konsectatrix]

(look, they were Banties, they were tiny, wouldn't have been enough to be worthwhile)

So true. And still, no matter what, if you try to give roosters away, I guarantee most of the respondents will show up with a knife and fork and a hungry gleam in their eyes.

Some people seem to live with the cops on speed dial to address their every need.

[steorra]

My parents lived in Belgium for a couple years, and I visited them there one summer. Someone in the neighbourhood had a peacock. Yup, we heard it.

[cjsmith]

I, too, live in a suburban area where chickens are fine but roosters are not allowed. Doesn't stop people of course.

I work in a much more rural area and OMG YES THE PEACOCKS. Every so often they escape, too, and I have to brake to avoid hitting them on the highway. :)

[konsectatrix]

On an otherwise quiet night when the wind blows right, France probably heard it.

[konsectatrix]

Kinda funny that the whole suburban chicken thing took off and I'm actually considering it myself, considering I still have memories of being a small child unable to play in the shared backyard of the apartment building, because our landlord on the bottom floor decided to raise Leghorn chicks of all gods-cursed things. A bunch of 'em grew up to be Terror Birds, as they do.

I did some reading up on peacocks once, because I was curious about how on earth people were keeping them and what it entailed. Supposedly, they have no real homing instinct and enjoy roaming and getting lost, so yeah. That convinced me I wanted nothing to do with them when all the screaming didn't! :D

[steorra]

Or at least the Netherlands (we were in the north).

[azurelunatic]

cock

[azurelunatic]

Do Leghorns have A Reputation?

[konsectatrix]

Yeah, they can turn out to be really aggressive. Personally, I think we were throwing them in the stewpot out of self-defense and then found out they also tasted good. :p

[konsectatrix]

Nice. I'd love to wander Europe someday.

[azurelunatic]

One of my aunts had a peahen. This was fine until she had a chick, who was promptly named "Shitball" for his habit of refusing to go in the barn, then screaming in the middle of the night right under my aunt's bedroom window.

[azurelunatic]

My neighborhood apparently has one wandering peacock. I haven't heard him yet.

[firecat]

In my neighborhood I understand you have four months to rehome your roosters. (As in, you can keep them until they are four months old.)

I wonder who would win a screeching contest between a peacock and a cockatoo.

[wibbble]

There is/was a wandering peacock in the small town I live in. Apparently it would wander into the doctor's offices and terrorise people in the waiting room. A friend of mine was unable to keep an appointment with his accountant because the peacock had decided no one was allowed in the accountant's office that day.

I've never seen it myself, but I try to avoid spending time outside in this town. :D

[azurelunatic]

My guess is that the cockatoo might win at short range, but the peacock is still annoying/disruptive at a greater distance.

[silveradept]

Oh, that was supposed to be a weird and unnatural sound in the neighborhood? Huh. Okay.

[azurelunatic]

It seems that this gentleman is newly bothered. Or, perhaps, only bothered now that he leaves his windows open.

[lilysea]

The university that I went to had peacocks that used to sit on the windowsill outside lecture theatres and SHRIEK for the entire 45 minute lecture... very hard to hear the lecturer, even with the windows closed.