Chook Ecstasy

Most things you read or hear about keeping backyard chooks, while  potentially useful and informative, also have an unfair reputation of coming across as a  little religious in their enthusiasm for the humble hen. Their praises are sung so enthusiastically to non-chookers: They're just such lovely pets; They love being patted; I talk to mine all the time!; Their poo is just so rich and valuabe! Their little beady eyes are SO cute; These common chookist statements must sound like the utterings of a crazy man to the average citizen, innocent to the  ecstasy of chook husbandry.

Still, there must be something viral about this poultry madness, as more and more people with room to house a hen or two, are keeping these feathered ladies in their suburban backyards.

And those heathen souls who have yet to be saved are only a dozen homegrown eggs away from achieving enlightenment.