Our girls...

[Richard Crowe]

We don't trim watermellon or canteloupe close to the rind.

They are great treats for our girls on a hot day.  By the end of the day, there will be nothing left except the thin green outer rind.

We actually have six hens. The black Australorp was in the laying box doing her duty. We get three to six eggs a day which is plenty for my wife and I. In fact, we often share our scrambled eggs with the dogs.
The pans are recycled baking pans reserved only for the chickens as a health safety factor. 
The chicken area is about eight hundred square feet, is fenced in from the rest of our yard - which gives it a double barrier against predators (and also keeps our dogs away from the chicken poop). It is beneath a tall oak tree which shades the area all day long. It is easily ten degrees cooler in the chicken area than up by our house. The girls stay in two hen houses at night. We walk down to the chicken area about dusk and usually find the girls already in their houses. They each have their own roosting places within the houses and the only time there is a disturbance is when one hen takes another hen's spot. Talk about pecking order
BTW: The eggs from these "free range" chickens are really wonderful and far better than the eggs from commercial producers... I am told that they have lower cholesterol but, I know the yokes are a deeper color and that they taste really great...

[F, Calla & Luca]

You and the chickens are lucky.

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

Such good pictures.  You are lucky to have room for chickens, they are so funny.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

What a win win situation, Richard.  The hens have a lovely home and yummy treats and you have yummy eggs.

[DJ & Chance]

Oh lucky you!  Wonderful photo story.

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

We rarely eat eggs and use very few in cooking. We have one neighbor (1/4 mile away ) keeps chickens. I love to hear her rooster crow. Another neighbor a couple of miles down the road keeps ducks for the eggs. Otis had a coworker who kept chickens and kept her front door open so the chickens could come in the house. NASTY!!!

[Richard Crowe]

We don't eat a lot of eggs - Judy will scramble up a dozen eggs about once or twice weekly and we eat about two eggs worth each and save the rest for the dogs.  Each dog gets a small spoonful of egg which they love.

The hens eat vegetable scraps (no potatoes we are told) and love all kinds of fruit (especially melons but not citrus).  Their favorite is grapes and they eat red grapes out of our hands.

Our neighbor brings them down apples and other goodies and they run up to her when she arrives at the fence.  She brings her house guests down to meet our chickens.  So much for the excitement of rural life!

Of course they eat standard chicken feed also.