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I agree that they can be either or both. (Depending on how you look at it, I guess.) If you're raising them strictly for meat and/or eggs, they're livestock in my opinion. If you don't care about that, and just like having them around, they're pets. Since ours eventually get put in the freezer...

Well, then, it sounds like the girls need to be taught not to chase them. I have kids - they can learn - even at a very young age - how to behave around animals.

First of all, you need to stop chasing them. They will never come to you if you continue. Chickens are a prey animal. Everything likes chicken, so their instincts tell them to RUN whenever something frightens them. Chasing causes them to be frightened. My chickens are not pets, they are...