It truely depends on the kids.. We were at our local farm store a few weeks ago and they had thier chick in. I was not interested since they were just broilers. My 2 yr old was in the cart looking into the bin when a young lady in her late teens, early twenties pick one up and held it to him saying" isnt it soooo cute, you want to pet it?" Well my son is shy and in any case I have had chicks in the house for the last 4 months so that little chick was nothing special..lol We had a city friend come out to our place for the first time and he brought his family. The children ran from fence to fence looking at everything we have. They just didnt know who they wanted to look at first, the horse, the sheep, the chickens, turkeys, geese... It was just to hard and around and around they went. It took him about 30 minutes to get them all in the car after he said it was time to go... My nephew could care less about any of it. They all have thier interests and unfortunately they dont all LOVE chickens..lol Go with the flow and encourage the younger one. Jenn