Buy diapers for your chickens

Here are a few things to consider before you decide to raise chickens.

1. Chickens are jerks

Yes, chickens have been known to cuddle with kids. And yeah, they give us delicious eggs. But given the choice between doing their business on dirt and doing it on your porch, chickens are likely to choose your porch every time.

That said, you can buy diapers for them.

2. But roosters are bigger jerks 

They have been known to attack kids, adults and even kittens.

3. You’re gonna have to figure out what to do with all those eggs

“You get a [lot] of eggs, which are impossible to eat even if you eat a lot of eggs, said Sam Pfeifle, a Gray writer. “Since you basically have to have at least four chickens (they’re social and need friends) that means four eggs a day, usually.”

4. It can take up to eight months to get your first eggs

If you buy them as chicks, you’re going to have to wait at least six months on average until they are able to produce eggs.

5. Chickens can kind of turn into roosters

Nature is amazing. It only happens about one in 10,000 chickens, but some hens have transformed into roosters — at least on the outside. They don’t actually develop male organs, but they do look like roosters.

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