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Hi I have only been keeping chickens for about a month, but i really love it! they are so rewarding and thats not just with eggs, they have such odd things that they do, they constatly make me laugh :) I have 8 hybrids 3 of which are Bluebells.

I totally agree Caretaker, they fascinate me! People who don't have chickens often don't understand just how much personality they have!

They're time-wasters! You just catch sight of something happening, watch for a minute and half-an-hour disappears! They do it on purpose, you know...

The best thing (and I know not everyone can keep cockerels) is watching a doting boy find things for his ladies to eat, cluck about with it in his beak and place it down for them! Beautiful!

I don't think that a cockerel is in our future, when we stay at my fathers place in Lincoln his one drives us mental! for some reason thinks that 2 am is dawn and then 3 am is dawn and so on and so forth! and it's ok for him to have that as his village only has about 15 houses in it spread over a mile! My Neighbours would have me shot if they heard that every morning/night.

I love waking up early but not that early!! I keep mine shut in till 8 o,clock so all I can hear is a muffled croak. Neighbours are not that close luckily and like chickens!