Ever since our neighbor built a chicken coop, one of his chickens refused the new accommodation and took up illegal residence in our garage.
Floor Omelet Anyone 🍳?
For nearly two months this chicken has been roosting in a former Chinese shrine holder shelf thing in our garage. I was working in the garage doing some cleanup and noticed broken eggs on the floor below. I couldn't believe this little mini dinosaur was still calling this place home despite having its own coop at home. As vegand we have no interest in eating its eggs, and we've told the owner several times to come and collect this godless killing machine, but he's never collected his bird or its eggs.
As I was organizing things, I couldn't help but notice the massive amount of chicken turds everywhere. On top of that, this thing wanders around our property and eats everything small enough to enter its facehole, decreasing biodiversity in the process. While I was working below, this thing kept looking at me like a deranged meth addict and making disturbing sounds. I'd love to chase it away, but I realize it will return, so it seems futile.
I asked my wife if her brother was eating the eggs, and she said we shouldn't use the eggs because they belong to the owner, so I guess these unfertilized ovals are destined to become floor omelets as they fall through the gap in the shrine stand each day. I hope this mini T-Rex soon leaves our property and begins pooping where its human lives instead of our garage floor.
Mowing Cambodian Style 🥷
For a few days I've been cutting the cliffside grass and other areas of the property with a machete and sickle. Luckily I've had some help from my brother-in-law, and at this point we're nearly done, just in time too, looks like I have a former student and his mom coming to visit us tomorrow. She has traveled from Germany to Cambodia, and is roughly the age of my parents who haven't visited once in the 12+ years that I've lived here. I plan on taking lots of pictures of this woman to prove to my parents how easy and safe it actually is to travel around Cambodia
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I remember a line from a Jim Gaffigan book that I read where he said that "chickens are powerfully stupid animals." I also find them a bit terrifying and they are part of my day-to-day life even though I live in a very populated city of over a million people. I was recently over at a friend's new house and a neighbor's chicken just decided it was going to move in and man oh man was it persistent. It would fly through the windows and at one point just walked through the front door. I guess it wanted to sit on the sofa but myself and my friend's wife have enough experience with these killing machines to know that it is never a good idea to just let a chicken hang out for a bit because the chicken doesn't see it as a temporary stay. We had to be mean to it and chase it off for days in order for the chicken to get the hint.
I'm sure you already know that this is the case but you are just too kind to do something like that. I'm sure you have enough free time to clean up chick-poo though since you do just seem to laze around the house all day (joking, of course.)
You're right about chicken decisions, there's no telling how long our trespassing T-Rex was in the old Chinese shrine stand before we found out, but the poop an broken egg trail must've been at least a week's worth. I think it had already staked its claim, and even though we've run it off a few times, it comes back at night. I think at this point we'd have to dismantle it, but then chances are with my luck it would take up residence in my tuk-tuk.
These things are godless killing machines, and being a vegan, that only says something about what I wear and eat, but it has no control over my hatred of chickens. Their eyes reveal all, plenty of instinct and no common sense 😵.
You can always put a small tray under the shrine, fill it with dried leafs to cushion it so the egg wouldn't crack. May be it's time to do some business? Also, dinosaur poop can be fertilizer I believe. You don't have to use them to nourish your cabbage, may be sunflower? Well, you don't have to technically inform your ABNB guest what do you use to grow the sunflower whilst they're sniffing it 🤭 this reminds me when I was little, staying in my grandma house with a cousin. Grandma chopped a node of sugarcane for each of us after dinner so we can start grinding our K9. We're discussing why is the sugarcane salty, and then my cousin peed at the sugarcane right Infront of us 🤣
There's a small opening where the eggs fall out, and I could simply block it, but I'm afraid we'd end up with a bunch of old rotting eggs to smell. The poop can be used, but because it's mostly on concrete, so it's not so easy to collect, and very small amounts.
I have fertilized our coconut tree with your cousin's method, and one day when/if it bears fruit I would like to think there's a small part of me inside that coconut 😁.
I'll admit, I would be taking advantage of the eggs, but I could definitely deal without the poop.
That's an interesting situation you have which would never be seen in the US, where the concept of "it's mine" is so prevalent that the chicken's owner would not only take the chicken back but possibly build a brick wall to keep you from even looking at it.
But.. yeah. Domesticated dinosaur indeed. 😂
Even as a vegan I am let down by this unnecessary waste, just seems a general laziness to not come and collect the chicken. They know we won't hurt it because we are animal tolerators, but I'm also not thrilled to deal with broken eggs and poop if it doesn't benefit me somehow. You're right though, in the USA the problem would be the exact opposite, and in general I often tell my 'Merican friends to take everything they know that is normal and turn it 180 degrees, and that is Cambodia, equally challenging, frustrating, and intriguing.
When I see chickens I can't help but them as soulless mini T-Rexes that would eat me if I were small enough.
Oh they would, of that I have no doubt. They're vicious little things!
...I forgot to insert the "see" in between but and the, but you got it anyhow 😉
Wow! hehe. I wish I had a tresspasser chicken like that. Perhaps I love it to be boiled or an omelette. Here in my country, we call it as bisayang manok. It always feels so good to taste its delicious meat and I love it for soups and other preparation auch as adobo or something soaked with sauce. Best regards to the tresspasser chicken and take care always my friend. Hvae a wonderful day.
🙏🙏🙏 My brother-in-law was staying with us for a few weeks, and he is not vegan so I told him he could haven our neighbors' chicken eggs, but he didn't eat them for fear of causing any problems with them. They are really disrespectful with us at times, so we don't want to interact with them more than we have to. Shame he didn't leave an unwanted sheep on our property, we could make better use of that because we need a lawnmower 😁.
True, hehe. Disrespectful neighbors are sometimes irritating but it seemed they are taking beneficial things to you like the tress passer chicken with an egg. I was really happy seeing it. What more if a sheep serves as a mower on your lawn hehe. You’re welcome my friend.
ha ha I see you are so annoyed with the attitude of chickens that make nests in places of former Chinese worship. Besides that, the chicken leaves its droppings and does the owner of the chicken have no ethics even though the chicken is nesting in someone else's house?
They refuse to collect their chicken, but want to collect the eggs occasionally. The broken eggs are messy to clean up, but the neighbor isn't helping with this, and that frustrates us a bit. Sometimes it poops in my tuk-tuk and the smell is very bad, but our neighbors aren't very caring or friendly people.
Hello Justin
At my living area, my neighbor's chicken always have egg in my house. Sometimes I feel want to angry ehehe. But chicken just chicken 😄
Hai Justin
Di daerah saya tinggal, ayam milik tetangga saya selalu bertelur di rumah saya. Kadang saya merasa ingin marah ehehe.
Tapi apa boleh buat, ayam tetaplah ayam 😄
Greetings from Indonesia, Justin
If I wasn't a vegan I think I would eat the eggs as payment for cleaning up the poop every week😁. But I am compassionate with it because there must be a good reason it does not feel welcome at home. I suspect the rooster is too rough with it and she wants to hide from him.
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I think this lady is without any boyfriends at the moment, on second thought she might be hiding from the rooster at her house, perhaps traumatized from domestic chicken-on-chicken violence 😁. Because of this I assume all the eggs are unfertilized.
If I were in your side I will definitely cook the eggs and even the chicken.😅
I might have to light a fire under this chicken and give it a choice to be cooked or go back home 😁.
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