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dacjohns is right. Chickens are trainable, but not eminently so - at least not so they'll "behave" like people. They do what they do. They are farm animals, and birds at that. If they were trainable to be "nice" little critters, people would have done so long ago. Instead, they wisely remove...

The thing that really intrigues when the kid/chicken issue is being discussed is this: Most will re-home (I like that term) or eat a chicken for just doing what it does around kids - but they wouldn't consider culling a sub-standard bird to enhance their flock for anything. Fascinating...

I will risk a different stance here, along with MissPrissy, but maybe the tykes should be kept out of the chicken yard. When I was a little kid, we weren't allowed around the animals much. If we got near them, we were taking our chances. In many ways they were quite dangerous to a child. They...