I let my neighbors two grandchildren have a chicken in with my two hens. They are at their grandmothers at least 5 days a week and spend hours hunting up bugs and pulling grass for the chickens. This morning they found 21 grasshoppers and they and their grandmother and I watched them feed the chickens and we all were laughing at the chickens. The girl is 14 and stated this morning that she did not think she would have enjoyed the chickens as much as she has. Ours have not started to lay yet but they can't wait.