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[Chicken Shirl]

Mine like them roasted best with the seeds roasted as well, but they will eat them uncooked. As we roast most of our veggies in one dish they get a taste of everything. They especially like sweet potato mashed with butter. Naughty I know

[Sarahsausage]

I've always wanted chickens and then a friend at work rescued some ex-batts so that gave me the nudge to get some rescues myself, they are definately spoilt pets with eggs as a nice bonus. Seems to have caused a chain reaction as several friends have now got rescues! Chickens are sooooo adorable and addictive! Hoping to get a couple more very soon, just waiting for a phone call...........

[CrissyH]

We bought our 10 chickens in Sep, being newly retired we felt we could make the commitment. They are now 16-18 weeks old and they control our daily routine. 9 different breeds, they are best described as a bunch of marauding juveniles making combined raids on food stations, the latest hole that one has dug, "helping" wiith the coop cleaning etc. There is always one on watch for a human bearing gifts coming up the garden path. Not sure that they will ever have time to lay eggs!

We realised how attached to them we were when some got gape worm and gave us sleepless nights. My husband likes to handle them whilst I am happy to be amongst them and feed them by hand but don't see them as cuddly. They give us hours of pleasure so they are definitely pets - eggs, well they will just be a bonus.

[Chicken Shirl]

They sound lovely do you have any pictures of them all, we would love to see them.

[rarara]

I'm loving all the perspectives When I get some I think eggs will also be a bonus. I don't eat that many anyway.

I really can't wait!

[Saronne]

I like to refer to my girls as "Productive Pets", they are pets but I love the egg production

 

I spoil my girls rotten, but they give as much love back as they get

 

 

'Productive Pets' is what I'd call mine, too. Mine don't have names, but I am fond of them just the same.

 

Saronne xx

[Saronne]

Ooops! They do have names!

 

 

Saronne x

[Barkisland]

Mine are definitely pets, first & foremost. The eggs are a lovely bonus but I would still keep my girls, in the manner to which they are now accustomed, even if they all stopped laying tomorrow.