There are many good reasons to keep pet chickens around, not only do they eat the scraps from your table but the hens can provide farm fresh eggs on a daily basis. One important factor that has to be mentioned is that like other living creatures, chickens need to spend time outdoors in the sunlight.

Chickens can be amusing pets. They love to take dust baths and they do a service for your lawn also. They might eat at new shoots of plants but they also scratch at the dirt and loosen it up. If you lawn has a bug problem then a chicken or chickens can do a valuable service. They love to eat bugs. After chickens are feed their daily dose of grain, they spend the rest of the day scratching at the ground looking for the little bugs that are all lawns. This is an important source of protein for their diet.

For those wanting to have a trained chicken, it is feasible. They are easily trained with food as a reward. After some time of getting to know your birds, petting and hand feeding them is possible. Once they know you are a source of food they will happily follow you around the lawn waiting for the next hand out.

But for those who want a chicken to rest in their lap and become a true friend it would be best to raise it from a baby chic. Baby chics do need special care in that they require a fresh environment and a heat source. The fresh environment means constant cleaning their waste and a heat source can be as simple as a light bulb. Four to Five week old chics are old enough to go outside and join with the rest of your flock but in those first weeks of bonding, your child can have a lifelong friend. Yes the pet chickens? life.