My dad thinks it's cute to see my chickens follow me to the gate in the morning during school when I'm leaving for work. They park their motorhome on the other side of my driveway on about a quarter of an acre. Now they are talking about making a little fenced area for a couple of chickens to keep over there when they parked here. I caught him tossing pop corn to them over the fence earlier today. He gets the warm fuzzies when they run up to the fence when they see him,, I just don't want to tell him they think he's an automatic popcorn machine. He's an ol' farmboy from Stephenville though, he knows this... just time changes perceptions and he looks at them differently now.
I know what you mean about the blister thing, I've had them do that but not at a blister, at my toe ring. I look darn silly hopping across the yard going to work in open-toes shoes with chickens chasing my toe ring.