I am not a fan of urban chickens (and they are very popular in the towns where I've lived the past 10+ years) since my experience with them has been that they are dirty, smelly, stupid and mean. YChickenMV.

They are legal in my town so long as the coop is 100 feet from any other structure. There are a number of them that roam the neighborhood, often ending up in one of the parks, which is thus often littered with chicken shit. Not. A. Fan.

We use a lot of eggs, but not enough to justify keeping chickens. Unless we were going to eat the chickens, too, and I'm really not up for home slaughtering and plucking. So.

Sparky, do you think I could get hired as a law librarian - or, rather, a "Research & Electronic Resources Professional" at a law firm?

Chickens are illegal in Athens, GA, (in city limits) but I suspect there are a lot of secret hipster chickens out there.

flea, can you send me the advert? Perkins may also have a better grasp of what you'd need to learn to say in an interview, since I live in the ivory tower and don't get to play with the good toys.

and I'm really not up for home slaughtering and plucking. So.

There are butchers who will do this part for you, I've read.

One of mr. flea's father's strong childhood memories is watching his mother kill and pluck chickens. Note that they lived, not on a farm, but in Cleveland, in the city proper. This would have been in the 1940s.

Sparky, I emailed Perkins already & I'll email you too.

There are butchers who will do this part for you, I've read.

That's true. I know my dad has nightmares of watching his grandmother slaughter chickens -- he doesn't watch horror to this day.

I just don't think I would be good at it. I only remember to feed the kids and the cats because they won't let me forget. But I think it would be totally cool to eat perfectly fresh eggs.

My friend Kevin grew up on a farm and killed many chickens a day starting when he was about 10. (He showed me his technique.)

I asked my Aunt Edna once how she decided which chicken to kill for dinner: "Well [editorial note: this actually sounded more like "Whelp..."], I usually grab the one that's closest. But if she pecked me that week, she's dinner."

I saw a chicken wandering by the side of the highway yesterday. I'm not sure where it belonged. It was on prison property. There are usually cows in that field, and sometimes horses, but I've never seen chickens there before, and this one was outside the fence.

I kinda think chickens seem evil, but apparently they can be very friendly and soothing. My step-grandmother's sister was a Buddhist nun in Santa Barbara, and they kept chickens at the nunnery and people used to hug them, and found it relaxing. Maybe they were special Buddhist chickens.