When i got chickens i expected, well, a chicken. Everyone makes them out to be stupid brainless idiots. I knew they were smart but had no idea how they aren’t just chickens. Their personalities are all so complex and different. They bond and some form friendships. They get jealous and angry and depressed and content. If you said to me that you could understand what they were trying to tell you just by their cluck i wouldn’t believe you but you can! I know when they have to lay an egg, when their hungry or scared, because im in tune with them. I know their personalities and i know how they behave. Just like getting a dog you start to understand them. I never thought that i would value a chickens life, the very thing people call stupid and dumb, i would value just as much as my own life. That i would do anything in the world for. Because their not chickens. Their more then chickens. You can dumb them down to whatever you want and choose to think a certain way but your choosing to not understand them. You can make any animal seem worthless if your not choosing to see their emotions. Chickens remember you, they know who you are and they behave different with different people!
So much that I’ve understood just in a little over a year. By owning chickens i didn’t only understand them. I understood cows, i understood ducks and geese and goats. I don’t have to own them to know that they have their own personalities. Owning chickens has thought me more then just chickens, i know that every animal is different, and they all have a wide spectrum of emotions. We just choose to not see them.