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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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. Do stores still sell baby chicks at Easter? In major cities are there still neighbors who keep chickens, ( ours did and two goats as well)? Can one downtown still wake up to the crow of a real live rooster outside the door? . |
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hush Senior Member
since 2001-05-27
Posts 1653Ohio, USA |
Yes... I opted to buy a goose instead of a baby chick though. It was a few years ago at the Sweet Feed Co. And, to the second part of your question- yes. My ex-boyfriend lived in the inner city, and his next door neighbor had a rooster that crowed every morning... but a lot of people have a lot of funny things in that part of town...  |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. I remember as child looking out of the house in the morning and seeing that again our neighbors’, in Glen Park, part of Gary Indiana, chickens had flown over the fence and were foraging on our long front lawn. I always wondered why they never went further than that into a great Escape especially since there was a stump with a lot of cuts and a hatchet on top in their own back yard. Our neighbors also had a couple of goats in the garage. There was a definite farm smell to my block in the city. And yes, there were Easter chicks, and fried chicken not all that long after. Once when I was three and there was a steel strike on, I was with my father when he went out into the farmlands and with a couple of friends bought a calf for ten dollars. After the farmer led the mother away my father straddled that calf and with a borrowed knife cut its throat in front of me; I can still hear the sound of its hooves banging inside the trunk of the car as we drove home. Then I watched him slaughter the carcass to the bone in the apartment basement, ( he gave me the eyes to play with ). It was a different world then. . |
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