Comments on: The last few years

By: alienation

alienation — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:01:33 +0000

Maybe. I’ve heard a chicken story on This American Life, and some “green” program. It never occurred to me that people were so paranoid about eggs. I thought poultry was popular because you can eat them after they quit laying eggs, and because some people are into cockfights.

By: Cajeta

Cajeta — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:40:05 +0000

I thought chickens (just like hipster taco/ice cream trucks) are back in style and accepted by the tatted up vegan hipster crowd? Don’t they now want the freshest eggs possible? Don’t they want to be sure that the Ms Chick is eating only vegetarian food to maximize Omega 3s?
I thought chicks & cocks were back in???

By: Jahluv

Jahluv — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:07:43 +0000

Every place that I’ve lived in the LA area has had pretty lax enforcement concerning laws about livestock. When I was in Inglewood, I’d troop two doors down to give my landord the rent (all $175.00 of it – those were the days…) One day I’m standing on his porch talking with him and his wife and I feel something glaring at the back of my head. I turn around a see an ostrich peeking over his backyard fence! Musta jumped 5 feet! My landlord tells me that he’s only going to be around for a few months then he’s gonna be boots, belts, and in the pot. His 5 year old daughter fell in love with the thing and wouldn’t let him kill it – and the ostrich only liked her – was mean as hell to everyone else.

As a homeowner in Compton, chickens, roosters, and wannabe cowboys (Black and Latino) on horses are an everyday thing. My neighbor brings me eggs all the time. I’ll take cock-a-doodle-doo at sunrise over some uptight neighbor any day of the week.

By: KateNonymous

KateNonymous — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:52:24 +0000

Obviously I’m going to have to look into L.A. livestock rules more carefully. We’d love to have chickens, but the zoning for our area makes it look like we can’t. But maybe all we need is a tape measure to make sure. I certainly don’t have any interest in banning other people’s, and even if there is to be a limit, this seems awfully stringent.

By: bentrogena

bentrogena — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:10:51 +0000

Oops! I don’t know what happened with benign breast cancer links. Thought I was being all crafty with the HTML and everything.

Here’s the LA Times blog on urban livestock: http://bit.ly/gOJ1Z
Here’s the Homegrown Evolution blog: http://www.homegrownevolution.com/

And no more teacher jokes! I’ll have you suspended. For a week!

By: UnGalan

UnGalan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:00:33 +0000

bentrogena,

your links are bad…I’ll give you a chance to make it up if you do extra credit, otherwise I’m giving you a zero for the day!

By: bentrogena

bentrogena — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:13:42 +0000

The LA Times just published a blog entitled, The down and dirty on raising livestock in the city.

The reporter quotes Echo Park resident, Erik Knutzen, co-author of “The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City” and the blog, Homegrown Evolution.

Jessica Garrison last year wrote about the conflict going on with roosters in South LA. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/25/local/me-rooster25

Sounds like a lot of cultural clashes going on over chickens.

I appreciate Chavo’s willingness to speak out about his unpopular view of dogs. I sometimes feel like I’m the only dog hater on the planet. Personally I’d much rather live next to a rooster than a dog.

By: loveandhatela

loveandhatela — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:10:16 +0000

Im in the minority : im all for controlling the chickens in urban/suburban settings.
Damn its bad enough when dog owners cant keep control of their dogs from getting out!

-Im for shoot first and ask questions later

me vale madre! jejeje

If i want to see pollos y gallos voy de visita a los ranchos.

By: AlDesmadre

AlDesmadre — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:05:35 +0000

Q: Why did the Chicken cross the river?
A: To get to the Eastside!

By: RobThomas

RobThomas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:29:54 +0000

The central and Sacramento valleys are still mostly rural, ATC. The one thing I still like about Sacramento anymore is the fact that it only takes me 20 minutes to get to rural areas that haven’t been developed yet, and haven’t changed a bit. I don’t get out of my car. I’m not a big fan of the people living there, nor their law enforcement, many of them having a simple policy of pulling over every car they don’t recognize and busting their chops about what they’re doing there. Hello?!? Cheapest meth in the country, officer! As if you didn’t know…In all seriousness, the one thing that is changing about these small towns is that Mexican immigrants are slowly taking them over. Every one of the main streets in these towns now has a taqueria or two that just opened in the past few years. Does the LA area have any rural parts left? Parts of the I.E? Out there around Pomona? I know you have to drive a bit to get to them, which is unfortunate.