Official BYC Poll: Why Do You Have Chickens?

[BantyChooks]

BYC has an incredible array of members that keep chickens for many different purposes. Which of the options on the poll apply to you? Select as many as apply, and if you have reasons that aren't on the list, reply below outlining them.

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[pennyJo1960]

Okay I will bite I have them for eggs first .. Now seems I need all the different egg colors

 

[Kiki]

It started with wanting eggs.

Math happened.

 

[sdm111]

Workplace stress therapy

 

[Conan]

Eggs first, then a litany of other things. Pest control in the orchard, winter garden tenders, hilarity, breeding projects, and just because I love them.

 

[WallyG74]

So, to explain my “other” vote besides eggs and fertilizer, it started as a project for the kids and me. I was on the road working and never saw my family. On the weekends that I did come home, everyone was holed up in their room doing their own thing. With my wife’s reluctant approval we started building a chicken coop together. It took a couple years to get finished with me being gone but it was quality time with family not staring at some type of screen all the time. Since we got our happy hens it’s also been a source of teaching responsibility for my two teens. One keeps the coop clean and the other makes sure there’s plenty of food and water. I honestly can’t imagine life without the rotten little cluckers now!

 

[FortCluck]

All of the above except exhibition

 

[pennyJo1960]

You and me Cluck.. Showed dogs for 35 years ... Enough nonesense

 

[AllenK RGV]

Rooster crowing helps me sleep? Why isn't that on the list? Chicken vocalization really tells me so much about my local environment.

Who here hasn't run out of the house in their undies at 3AM because the chicken told them to do it?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Grew up with them so maybe that too