Why is it so relaxing to sit with chickens?

[chickmeister]

I have my first flock and chicken therapy is the best. When they are babies they are just too cute and fluffy. Once they are a little bigger they are fun to watch as they scratch and play together. Anytime I am stressed I head straight to the coop. Works every single time!

 

[moorechicks]

I agree!! I love sitting out with my chicks and my geese

. When I cant take anymore of life for the moment I love to sit and think or talk to my babies. They are so sweet

 

[ParlorCityChickens]

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Greedy, ungrateful fluff butts! How true! But so relaxing!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

I always laugh when I see them dustbathe. It just seems so ridiculous.

 

[buffbuttercup]

so true. i find myself missing them when i'm at work! but i get off at 9 and by then it's bedtime. so i go in the hen house and sit and we catch up

 

[Ravishaw]

my oldest daughter passed away at five and a half in a tragic pool accident. When she was about a year old, maybe older, we had chickens and she would help me gather the eggs. We fed them, played with our little bantam cochin rooster (feather boots), tended the horses, and looked after the 3.5 acre property we rented. She was my best friend and alarm clock for five and a half years.

So I want the chickens for very literal chicken therapy. Right now they're just chicks, but later, when grown, I'm sure I'll love seeing them do the same things the chickens did with my daughter. I'll relive the moments and her laughter.

 

[chicknerd]

I just came in from spending what should have been a few minutes, but turned out to be an hour just watching them. I have two groups I have combined and actually saw them all rest together for the first time. Was wonderful to watch.

I could sit and watch them for hours. So can my dogs.

 

[gogoalie]

Chickens are like a good camp fire, you could just sit around, & watch them...

Funny, you bring this up, as I told our teacher who had them in his brooder, before he gave them away, I said the same thing, 'bout how mezmerizing they are...How many times I told him I had to git goin' & we just stayed & stared at the chickens...

There was another time I went to Seward, & the end of the AK Hiway...Nash road...& there was a chicken coop...I parked the car, & watched the chickens for like 20 mins...AMAZING ANIMALS!

I've more pictures of my chickens on my 'puter, than I do of my wife...

 

[ParlorCityChickens]

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And she will love seeing you enjoying the chickens as you once did together. She will be their guardian angel.

 

[ParlorCityChickens]

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I call it "spa time"