Is it worth it ?????

White millet in a recycling bin plastic jar with holes drilled into the top helps to make friends ;)- shake the jar and sprinkle millet like you shake salt out of a salt shaker and call them (when they are old enough to have treats) - they'll come running to you.

Be prepared for a labor of love, though, to keep them alive and comfortable. They need to bond to their coop and then be let out under supervision and trained to come home at night. Special issues are the noise (if you have neighbors or mind yourself), fighting if confined too much and sometimes even outside (need to manage the flock if there are bullies or bullied birds), and nests (hens tend to want to go away and nest outside, which most often results in a predator eating them if you cannot find the nest - and if you can, well, I spent many weeks fetching 2 of our girls in a net every night and carrying them home, to let them out and run back to the nest the next morning - they hated it but they are still with us today).
Well aren’t you sweet about it! :lau I nudged them off their outdoor nest with my herding stick and then herded them back into the coop!
 
I get a good laugh watching as they viciously attack the end of my stick when moving the hens off of a nest.
Most of mine run off the nest when they realize I’m serious. When Viceroy was on coop eggs that were developing, she got super protective. She would viciously attack the stick and refuse to move. I had to upend the box she was in then push her off. She got more and more determined as time went on... protective enough that she would be forced off then circle around behind me to challenge me! I was sad that the matriarchs let her hatch those babies then forced her to abandon the keets, because she was so protective and dedicated to them in the egg!
 

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