My first thought was "Is this in Ybor?". The chickens will just stop in the road and block traffic while they peck away at something between a crack. So many chickens.
This is true. I have lived in Oviedo for 34 years. They are not in the Popeyes drive-through anymore because they moved Popeyes. There are some of them still around the library.
A chicken got left behind during Rodeo Day in Osceola County back in like 2006/2007 somewhere around there, and ended up hanging out in the McDonald's lot that was near Simpson Road on 192 in Kissimmee. The employees joked they had fresher chicken than the KFC down the road lol
Huge colony at my local Walmart they have now claimed McDonald’s as their own, I’ve seen them McDonald’s workers throw fries at them from the drive through
157👀 those chickens have been there for *years*. It started as just one or two… and now they’re managers at McDonald’s. When you see a work it’s actually 6 chickens stacked up in a trench coat.
Gypsy chickens. Closest relative to the red jungle fowl. Extremely hearty, smaller eggs. They migrated from Cuba decades ago with humans looking for a better life. Key West is full of them and it is unlawful to harass them. They are making their way north and I love it. A hen for every home! Just like the government wanted. [https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-raise-chickens/](https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-raise-chickens/)
I have a bunch of hens that I got from the Key West Wildlife Center a few years ago. They love living up here, spending all day running around in the woods by my house.
I was in midtown Daytona Beach. Tough area. I'm working on an irrigation controller, and I come out of the gate, and there is a beautiful rooster and hen just walking around the hood in Daytona. The homeowner just staring at them. I said, " them your chuckens?" She said she'd nope...never seen them before.
I stopped at a restaurant in Belle Glade that was chicken-focused. There was a bunch of chickens running around in the parking lot (and the rest of the town, really) and I wondered if it was like when you get to pick the lobster they’re going to cook for you.
Is that the hillsborough walmart in tampa?
If so, that neighborhood is riddled with chickens and cats and for some reason they have teamed up to control the entire territory
There was a rooster in the bushes at 7/11 yesterday that scared the shit out of me, down in Pompano Beach.
Getting into my truck and it fucking crowed so loud, I felt like I almost jumped out of my shoes because I wasn't expecting it
https://preview.redd.it/zb405m9uykad1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd0bd169f3f62d08efc5370162c2aeb4a000e90b
We have some at the Wesley Chapel Walmart.
Oh my gosh I say good morning to this Rooster pretty often! Then one morning I saw him with his girlfriend, and then a few weeks later I see them with some smaller roosters maybe chickens too! I love them so much 😭😭🥰
I live in Central Florida near Orlando and we have our own chickens that used to congregate in the Popeyes drive-through. Somehow the town got rid of them and now they are around the library.
I don't think we have bush chickens but we do have feral cats that live in the garden department and at least one random bird usually flying around the rafters.
I'm in the panhandle, and it's been cool to hear everyone's stories! I always thought the feral chickens I saw growing up belonged to one of my neighbors. We had so many things killing my aunt's chickens that I got the impression they couldn't survive in the wild. I love learning new things like this, and I'm glad I was wrong about them surviving in the wild. I think I defaulted to baby talking them like I do my cats because I was so surprised to see them 😅
My first thought was "Alabama has them everywhere in their store fronts" and then you said you're in the panhandle to confirm my thoughts. South, South Alabama chickens.
I was at Walmart the other day and heard a rooster crow. He then strutted out across the pavement from where I parked. Crazy, but not totally unexpected.
Plenty of them roam in Fort Pierce, the city/code enforcement even pays you if you turn them in, they are native to Florida AND should BE LEFT ALONE
Tamarac, FL, our Neighborhood Market has a beloved Rooster that lives on site. Strangest thing, no chickens anywhere near this place, but they have a rooster. And I love seeing him every time we go to the store
Was this in Miami? I parked in the brightline ramp a couple years ago and there were a few roosters in the surface lot next to the ramp that were fighting. The one rooster tried to run away and the other one chased it across the parking lot to continue fighting with it.
Saw your post last night, then saw this on an area facebook group today. Central Texas. So, apparently we do as well!
https://preview.redd.it/z0ztxjkq8kbd1.png?width=683&format=png&auto=webp&s=e711b266f41f39626dead1d4711f378a4f2e5e02
We have crackheads in our bushes.
lol came to post the exact same thing
🤣
r/pensacola ?
I know for sure they got them but I’m in Crestucky. Lol
I’ve seen them at a Walmart in Tallahassee.
Don't forget they already with carts full plus that cardboard box bed a sleeping bag if lucky
Yes! Full carts 🛒 and the occasional pup 🐶 companion.
Can't forget the old cart companion some are young some are old.... But damn near always show signs of dehydration unfortunately....
Bush baby bush baby
Omgosh so funny!
Ybor City has a lot of chickens.
My first thought was "Is this in Ybor?". The chickens will just stop in the road and block traffic while they peck away at something between a crack. So many chickens.
Lol also my first thought.
Why don't the chickens cross the road?
It’s illegal not to *let them* cross the road. Remember that.
Noted. Happy 4th!
You too!
Ybor walmart has chickens and crazy people
To be fair, crazy people is a requirement for walmart
Wal Martians are a special breed
You win. 👏👏👏 (Definitely writing that down for future use.)
Glad we all thought of ybor!
they all over Florida
Love walking around 7th Ave and just hearing roosters lol. Ybor is so bizarre
Did some welding in ybor to expand bridges. Ybor is weird AF, had roosters on site.
Oh man wait till you go to Oviedo, home of the chickens. Ironically, they used to always be next to what used to be a Popeyes 💀
This is true. I have lived in Oviedo for 34 years. They are not in the Popeyes drive-through anymore because they moved Popeyes. There are some of them still around the library.
Back when Oviedo was still the country
A chicken got left behind during Rodeo Day in Osceola County back in like 2006/2007 somewhere around there, and ended up hanging out in the McDonald's lot that was near Simpson Road on 192 in Kissimmee. The employees joked they had fresher chicken than the KFC down the road lol
I thought the Keys and Hialeah had a chicken problem until I saw Oveido.
I used to go to that Popeyes in the early 90s and always found that to be so ironic
Taking it back
Huge colony at my local Walmart they have now claimed McDonald’s as their own, I’ve seen them McDonald’s workers throw fries at them from the drive through
New business model for keeping the price of chicken McNuggies low.
Miami?
Yes on 88th
157👀 those chickens have been there for *years*. It started as just one or two… and now they’re managers at McDonald’s. When you see a work it’s actually 6 chickens stacked up in a trench coat.
Yes!!!! 🤣 there’s also a rival chicken gang across the street by the vaquita (farm store) !!!!!
Lmfao how do you know they’re rivals?! 😅 watch those ones are going to take over Urban Air and learn how to fly
Gypsy chickens. Closest relative to the red jungle fowl. Extremely hearty, smaller eggs. They migrated from Cuba decades ago with humans looking for a better life. Key West is full of them and it is unlawful to harass them. They are making their way north and I love it. A hen for every home! Just like the government wanted. [https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-raise-chickens/](https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-raise-chickens/)
I have a bunch of hens that I got from the Key West Wildlife Center a few years ago. They love living up here, spending all day running around in the woods by my house.
Thats awesome. I have more domesticated chickens and some AAA eggs every day.
https://preview.redd.it/kbnsbizsbiad1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b30c4c083cd11e73081296d8dc0d92e3b2d14c2 Scarlet waiting for breakfast
Scarlet is precious and I would feed her all the bugs
Gotta respect chickens looking for a better life
I was in midtown Daytona Beach. Tough area. I'm working on an irrigation controller, and I come out of the gate, and there is a beautiful rooster and hen just walking around the hood in Daytona. The homeowner just staring at them. I said, " them your chuckens?" She said she'd nope...never seen them before.
No, but we have Publix chickens https://preview.redd.it/kl2nhil8mhad1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f99bd9b7a3d06d8d73bf4d9c78fa66e94f0b8a5e
And apparently lazy cunts who can’t put their shopping cart where it belongs in the actual cart return, or back to the store.
Got a publix chicken at mine too
I love the Publix chickens
Sugarmill?
I usually see them in key largo/the keys in general 😅 they’re all over the place down there
This particular chicken was in Davie.
I stopped at a restaurant in Belle Glade that was chicken-focused. There was a bunch of chickens running around in the parking lot (and the rest of the town, really) and I wondered if it was like when you get to pick the lobster they’re going to cook for you.
I have seen them at Hardee’s. No shortage of insects here which they’ll eat and I’m sure people feed them too.
Plus the lizards, plenty of anoles
Reminds me of a Canada goose that chills at the local Zaxby's begging for food at the drive-thru. I've seen people toss fries to it.
My Dunkin Donuts once had a chicken. I was told her name is Hennifer.
The Keys' stores have lots of chicken but no Walmart (I believe).
Saw some in Tallahassee!
those are Nicotine addicted raptors. crackheads fav tucker.
Keeping the city clean from small critters, always welcome
Locate the nest...free range fresh eggs daily!
Is that the hillsborough walmart in tampa? If so, that neighborhood is riddled with chickens and cats and for some reason they have teamed up to control the entire territory
I have seen wild chickens in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Not so unique to Florida.
Where I am we have Burger King peacocks
There was a rooster in the bushes at 7/11 yesterday that scared the shit out of me, down in Pompano Beach. Getting into my truck and it fucking crowed so loud, I felt like I almost jumped out of my shoes because I wasn't expecting it
https://preview.redd.it/zb405m9uykad1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd0bd169f3f62d08efc5370162c2aeb4a000e90b We have some at the Wesley Chapel Walmart.
We used to have bush chickens in our privacy hedge but they left when we replaced it with bamboo.
The Marathon Publix has as many chickens as employees.
They are all over Broward. Pompano and Lauderdhill Wally’s I’ve seen with the highest populations.
. . . love the random locations where they show up. The chickens must be great bug control . . .
Ever been to Key West?
seen some in neighborhoods around town. but I don't remember seeing any at the Walmarts.
Wheres here? Miami has a shitload of feral chickens.
The WAWA across from my work has chickens all day that hang around. They live at the lot across the street
I thought this was Hialeah Gardens. Miami-Dade County has a lot of chickens. I see roosters and hens in the backyard of the house behind where I live.
Walmart, no. Dollar General and McDonald's, yes.
Miami? Hialeah? Lol
Oh my gosh I say good morning to this Rooster pretty often! Then one morning I saw him with his girlfriend, and then a few weeks later I see them with some smaller roosters maybe chickens too! I love them so much 😭😭🥰
I'm in Alabama and we have them here too. I think people abandoned them especially roosters.
I live in Central Florida near Orlando and we have our own chickens that used to congregate in the Popeyes drive-through. Somehow the town got rid of them and now they are around the library.
Same here in eastern TN. The main rooster walks around and patrols the parking lot and screaming at everyone to return their carts 😂
I shared an image of some recently myself. They were in Broward county by a Walmart grocery
I don't think we have bush chickens but we do have feral cats that live in the garden department and at least one random bird usually flying around the rafters.
We have random free-range chickens in Zephyrhills (Tampa suburb)
Must be nice, the walmarts by me have coyotes and crackheads.
They’re all over Miami 🤷🏼♀️
Best I can do is ducks in my front hedge
I see roosters in the drive thru of Sonny’s chilling
Leave them damn chickens alone ma’am lol
We do in Orange Park
Key West is known for their feral chickens.
We got Walmart raccoons
Key West, just no Walmart thank god
Must be pompano beach
I have behind the 7/11 chickens
The animal Chicken does in fact live outside
I was hoping the chickens would answer her. Sooo disappointed.
I'm in the panhandle, and it's been cool to hear everyone's stories! I always thought the feral chickens I saw growing up belonged to one of my neighbors. We had so many things killing my aunt's chickens that I got the impression they couldn't survive in the wild. I love learning new things like this, and I'm glad I was wrong about them surviving in the wild. I think I defaulted to baby talking them like I do my cats because I was so surprised to see them 😅
My first thought was "Alabama has them everywhere in their store fronts" and then you said you're in the panhandle to confirm my thoughts. South, South Alabama chickens.
I’ve seen a lot of wild chickens in florida
We have bush chickens and roosters at the Winn Dixie on Big Pine Key. And of course, deer.
Gallinules?
look like people dropping off roosters
Take them to the nearest Chick-fil-A
SW Dade wal marts
Ours are at Publix... Right at the front door
We have feral chickens all over Florida. Key West and Ybor City are two areas that I’ve seen chickens running wild.
In Key West we are closer to Havana than to a Walmart, but we have more chickens than we know what to do with. It’s a win any way you look at it!
I was at Walmart the other day and heard a rooster crow. He then strutted out across the pavement from where I parked. Crazy, but not totally unexpected.
Go to Key West, they're all over that town. I once actually saw a chicken crossing a road in Key West and he was actually using the crosswalk, lol!
Kahului, Maui
We have town Roosters
they are Florida natives,
Plenty of them roam in Fort Pierce, the city/code enforcement even pays you if you turn them in, they are native to Florida AND should BE LEFT ALONE 
79st Hialeah Walmart ?
Tamarac, FL, our Neighborhood Market has a beloved Rooster that lives on site. Strangest thing, no chickens anywhere near this place, but they have a rooster. And I love seeing him every time we go to the store
They at the wal mart on broward blvd also
Fl key's
*Publix
Was this in Miami? I parked in the brightline ramp a couple years ago and there were a few roosters in the surface lot next to the ramp that were fighting. The one rooster tried to run away and the other one chased it across the parking lot to continue fighting with it.
Jesus that cringy voice is going right through me!
I saw a bush chicken at chick fil a once
Saw your post last night, then saw this on an area facebook group today. Central Texas. So, apparently we do as well! https://preview.redd.it/z0ztxjkq8kbd1.png?width=683&format=png&auto=webp&s=e711b266f41f39626dead1d4711f378a4f2e5e02
Strange thing to call my crabs….
I have Cracker Barrel chickens near me, like 10-20 of them in the parking lot. The jokes write themselves.
Deerfield?
Indeed
Haven’t seen them as much since they cut the bushes in front, but did see babies a few weeks ago
You must be in Hialeah xD P.S. your voice is adorable, lol.
Idk but you have a very cute voice. I talk to my cats and rats like that, too
Those are not chickens and venomous be careful.
Yoink, free chicken.
Walmart’s new Free Range chicken.
You never been to Hawaii?