I love that we aren't depending on our chickens to "feed" us, just to provide therapy. It enables us to choose whatever we want based on whatever we like and not based on whatever we need. Eggs are a bonus!!
They definitely are! He spends all day with them. I come home from work and it's like getting a rundown of what each child did today! And Russell the roo - He absolutely loves us, want's us to hold him, be near him....so cool!
We keep our chickens in a chicken run because of predators. However, we always let the Silver-Laced Wyandottes out to free range supervised in the yard. The Wyandottes were our first so they about a year older than the rest of our chickens. All of our others are about 6 months old. We did let a...
We have 3 silver laced Wyandottes, 2 Ameraucanas, 2 Japanese Cubalayas, 2 Jersey Giants, 2 Polish Crested, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Silkies, 3 Silver Laced Sebright Bantams, a Polish Crested rooster and Russell, our first roo is a jersey giant (I believe)...