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3acres 
..... probably right on that....lol. Maybe it's not the best thing in the world for them, but their one true absolute favorite thing is bread. I save them the heels and a couple other pieces from each sack to give as a treat. When they see me coming with that sack or hear it....they just about mow me down... jumping to try and get the sack out of my hands if I am not tearing it off fast enough for them and all up in my business....
. With watermelon, they're pretty interested, but not quite so CRAZY.... it's funny how they act according to what I'm bringing them. Sounds like they probably would rough me up and take over my bowl of delious ice cream then....
On a side note....my girls don't seem to need to be around me as much now with roosters around as they did before I had roosters.....sniffle sniffle....
. They'd peck around under the stock trailer until they seen me somewhere....then I would be surrounded by them pecking around while I worked around the barnyard on different things. I suppose they feel confident in the roosters protecting them now. They all still seem to be more brave if I'm out there, but it's still not as it was.....signing off, broken hearted in Missouri....
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Sounds a bit like ours too. We only have to rattle the food tub at the entrance to their ... um, enclosure (more like a wild jungle nobody's bothered to de-weed
) and they come leaping over the bit nettle bushes. That's another thing they love, by the way, nettle seeds. Every year we get a big stick and whack the nettles so the seeds fall down for the chickens.
I'm sure they still like you.
We've never had roosters, so I wouldn't know, but I reckon our hens have always been into doing their own thing. The only time they'll hang around us is if we have food, then the greedy devils will peck our toes until we drop something.
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from Alabama. Glad you joined us. 
