ok, i was always considered eccentric although a few of the older women here did have lambs or goat kids in their houses in the past , when doing so was part of farming, nowadays its considered almost as bad if not worse then NOT WASHING YOUR FLOORS ON THURSDAYS AND MAKING A CAKE FOR FRIDAY DINNER.... howver, since i dont do either of thsoe things either, so obviously raising chickens in the house was par for the course.
my kids (adults actually) love to show me off as the eccentric mother.... all their friends get warned before hand that 'MY MOTHER HAS A CHICKEN LIVING IN THE HOUSE BUT DONT WORRY SHE'S REALLY NICE (the chicken,that is)....
my kids had to get used to various and sundry wierd foodstuffs in the fridge (for wild rescue falcons, snakes, and various types of bottles of milk for infant gazelles or nubian ibexes), and strange baby animals walking around the house (ibexes, goat kids, porcupine babies) , but having a permanent (at the moment) hen named goldie living next to the freezer, between the shelves that hold ALL THE IMPORTANT PAPERS FOLIO, is considered extreme.
alhtough i have to admit, my eldest daughter's previous boss, a zoo caretaker, did have tiger cubs and monkey infants at various times in his house, for bottle feeding etc so we are not alone in our strangeness, just rare.
so when i say to my girlfriends that i 'have to take goldie out for a graze', they ask if they can join us to watch her.. they like to see her pecking and digging, they find it calming, beautiful, rustic, and ow my next door neighbhro is thinking of having, if not house hens, back yard chickens. (her father is a professional battery coop owner, now retired, and raising ;yard chickens, so she is used to them.)...