Chicken boarders

[chuckmum6]

Well to answer my own question....... For me it is a wonderful distraction from my all consuming working life and balances my family life beautifully. I love them!

[Space Chick]

It's the back to nature feel I get when I am covered in poo, chickens on my lap, feeling so completely content in their company.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I love how they make my garden entertaining to watch .

[jimnpaula]

Seeing the ex bats stumbling around and standing up and stretching their wings out in the sunshine, and now seeing them behave like 'proper' hens.

 

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[Olly]

The envy on other people's faces when I casually say 'oh, yes, I keep chickens'

 

Seriously - the way they bring the garden alive when they're free ranging.

[jackthelad]

They make me smile and they are always up to something they shouldn't be!!!

[Guest]

I love everything about them, from tidying up their coop, to making their lives more interesting, to how excited they get when they seem me, finding their eggs, listening to the chattering and I love saying goodnight to them and seeing all 4, friends now, all cuddled together.

 

What a great thread.

[Snoxy]

I cannot imagine my life without my girls They are amazing creatures...that lay amazing tasting eggs! Just adore them!

[Purplemaniacs]

I cannot imagine my life without my girls

 

I can't either. I like driving home from school and wondering if I will find any eggs in the nestbox

 

Chrissie

[Snoxy]

I found 9 eggs all in the same nest box this afternoon...white, green, blue, beige, brown, brown speckled...just a wonderful site...I always say thank you girls as I pop them into an egg box

[Purplemaniacs]

I always say Thank You, it would be rude not to

 

and Goodnight when I put them to bed

 

I love different coloured eggs, in theory I get two white, brown, a lighter brown, green and a greeny blue, but at the moment that is just a memory Your nest box must have looked a picture.

 

Chrissie

[Chicken shack]

1 Brings me closer to nature.

2 Knowing my eggs come from happy girls.

3 Watching their antics, they make me

4 Collecting their .

5 Talking about them.

6 Omlet forum.

7 Teaching my granchildren how to look after them.

8 Watching OH talk to them when he thinks I am not looking.

[bouldercroft]

the amazing connection to nature..

when I'm not sitting there smiling at the chickens I'm smiling at the wonderful world of nature around them...marveling at the days getting just a little bit longer, paying more attention than normal to the weather, wondering what to plant that is chicken proof - to the wild birds on my feeders

[Egluntyne]

All of the above.

[Alis girls]

All of the above - watching them scratch around and yes they are naughty too. The eggs are a bonus - everyone likes something they have "grown, made or helped produce" but its a little bit of the country in the burbs

[Trougher]

I love the noises they make, from the quiet mumbling to themselves to the loud and raucous shouting our Lucky makes when she's about to lay an egg. I love watching them dustbath, wriggling and rolling around in the soil, looking as though they are in seventh heaven. Finally, I love getting fresh eggs every day.

[Luvachicken]

This is my own little bit of countryside. I love the way my 2 do everything together, especially when they sunbathe in the tiny amount of sun in my garden today - they hate being apart for any sort of treatment and the one left behind really moans.

I love how all the dust falls off when they shake their feathers and the huge craters they dig in their run. They are just a pleasure to have every day - I just wish I had a bigger garden so they could have their own green space to go in.

[chestnutmare]

They give me a purpose to get outdoors, which I love when I'm out there, feeling close to nature and being outside just makes me feel good. Watching their funny little ways and discovering their unique personalities. Caring for them and finding eggs in the nest box that are deeee-licious.

[keyhole kate]

All of the above and .....

watching them dustbathe I never get tired of the entertainment this brings as they all try and hog the dustbath to themselves The is she stark raving mad look I get when people find out I have chickens Yep chicken keeping mad and happy to be

[mollyripkim]

All of the above, they are my little escape from the phones (I work from home). I love the way they charge over as soon as they hear the backdoor with their funny run and chatting away to me. Never thought I would talk chicken!

[blueandwhite]

Their sheer determination (they never give up!), sharing their eggs with family and neighbours and yes I always say thank you to the chooks, their antics and the way they both have to do the same thing at the same time. Love 'em.

[jomeena]

The joyfull noises they make when they see me. The way they like to help with the gardening ( really ) and the way they tell off the dog when he gets too close.

[Chortle Chook]

Now "let me count the ways" . . .

I too work from home and it could get rather lonely if it wasn't for my little chooks

I love the noises they make, their funny antics, the fact that they have connected me to such warm, kind people on the Omlet forum (I work in IT which is anything but warm)

I love their pretty feathers (fluff really for the Silkies and the Frizzles have hair dos like my own ), the fact that they have made my garden come alive (it was rather prissy before) and above all I love the fact that they make me smile when I am down.

[Sageandonion]

Only had mine for a week but I love seeing their little personalities develop, working out whose going to be top chick. How they get all excited when they see me - I know they're after food but no-one else in my family gets that excited when they see me! Wondering when and whose going to lay the 1st egg. We have a little competition going here. And yes how they're bringing a little bit of the countryside into an otherwise boring town back garden .

[Lavenders_Blue]

Gosh, I love so many things about my girls. But the one thing that makes me laugh the most is the way they spend hours looking into the house through the french doors when they are FR in the garden. They particularly enjoy looking in if I'm having my lunch, must be like visiting the zoo at feeding time! They even tap on the glass with their beaks, cheeky madams