Some weirdness

The keeping of chickens serves a number of purposes:

1.  The supply of fresh eggs daily with little or no cost other than the initial purchase of the breeding hens and a rooster. The rest come from allowing some of the eggs to be fertilized.

2.  The fresh chicken meat, Brazilians love "galinha caipira".

3.  They don't fly so they don't disappear unless you've got a hungry neighbor.

4.  They're noisy buggers and will alert you to intruders better than many dogs would. (Only geese are better at this)

5.  They'll eat almost anything, including food scraps so they're very low maintenance animals to raise.

Cheers,
James

I still find this strange , and the noise they make bothers me a lot . Fresh eggs for them and a lot of noise for me , this is brazilian city farming .

"Hipster" in Europe with space, also like to have a home production of fresh eggs and veggies. Its a easy way to recycle organic waists, and Ben pointed the why´s.

Who said its an exclusive situation in Brazil?
Does only romanians eat Horse meat?

I'm sure that Romania isn't the only country where horse meat is consumed, but it's prohibited here in Brazil. Strangely enough the slaughter of horses IS permitted in Brazil and around 21,000 tonnes of horse meat is produced for exportation to European markets. 

Cheers,
James    Expat-blog Experts Team

I`m not comparing the countries , I never said that one country is better than the other .  I lived in Brazil more than I lived in the country that I was born , I love this country , and wouldn't replace it with any other " I should have been born here ' .
I just don`t know for what the people here go through all this trouble to create chickens and other animals in the backyard and in the city and usually the spaces are very small and close one to another and there is also a law against this with a salted fine because of the hygiene and the conditions that the animals are created .What bothers me is the bad smell and the noise , and believe me is 24 hours a day .But as they say " Os incomodados que se retirem " . At first when I came to live her in this neighborhood I was very happy because of the silence and I accepted to pay a high rent just for this because I only have four hours a night to sleep after work and university .
I too like to eat fresh meat and fresh eggs but I prefer to buy them from the people that have farms outside the city  or how it is called here " Roça " . I don`t know about the horse meat in Romania I do remember about a city that had this salami production  made with a percent of horse meat I think it was Sibiu the name of the city but I may be wrong . Here in Brazil I never saw horse meat , never met anyone that produces , maybe in the south part of the country because of the european costumes .

The main problem with "urban farming" in Brazil is that even the largest cities like São Paulo, Rio, Belo Horizonte, etc., have few, if any, municipal laws against the practice or limiting it in any way.

Traditionally you find that those who keep chickens and other animal in the city are people at the lower end of the socio-economic scale who do it out of necessity. I live in such a neighborhood too and while the chickens running around and roosters crowing before daybreak, horse carts, etc., can sometimes be a bit irritating I can hardly blame these people for the conditions that they must cope with. I've actually become quite used to it [the animals] and it really doesn't bother me anymore.

I do find it rather strange that horse drawn carts are permitted on heavy traffic thoroughfares even in cities like São Paulo. I think they've become too much a part of Brazilian life and we'll never see the end of then now. That's why we still see horses kept in the city, these people are using them, trying to eke out a meagre living for themselves.

Cheers,
James

Your right James there not to blame . My neighbor has another kind of roosters that crow even at night , morning , afternoon    . Beside all of that they do taste good, they had a party once and invited me to join for a "galinhada" I had a great time at their place . Simple people do know how to party , they make "churrasco" every saturday with brazilian country music " sertanejo " and there daughters are the most beautiful girls in the neighborhood  .