Raccoons, rats, and pigeons are just some of the wild animals you might find yourself dealing with if you live in a city. However, some people who reside in Sacramento are grappling with a fairly unexpected nuisance in their neighborhood courtesy of the approximately 100 chickens that have managed to invade it.
The vast majority of the chickens in the United States reside on the farms that collect their eggs and process the birds responsible for the most popular meat in the country.
However, it’s become increasingly common to spot them outside of rural environments over the past decade or so. In 2018, so-called “backyard chickens” could be found behind around 5.8 million homes across America, but that number had spiked to more than 15 million by the end of 2020 after they became the poultry equivalent of sourdough during the pandemic…