Historically, backyard chickens where common. They were an easy to keep food source and would eat foot scraps, bugs, grain or just forage.
Today, on Gabriola there are still a lot of chickens and roosters. Currently, according to B.C.'s provincial legislation and regulations eggs can be sold legally to the consumer directly on the farm premises or from a farm stand for personal use. They can not be sold off of the farm premises such as at a farmer's market as the eggs are ungraded and not inspected.
Roosters are known to be noisy. The hens are equally noisy. Our neighbors happen to have a few chickens on their property that tend to act up early in the morning. As Mark Twain said "Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."
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