I love our chickens they make really great pets, they can be super friendly if you give them some love and they give you presents daily. Plus grain is cheap and they love eating left overs :)
We have four chickens and I have found that the two black ones seems to dominate but it's not as bad as other times when there was only one chicken getting picked on by the rest. I tend to give out lots of little piles of grain so there is no squabbling around feeding times :)
The lightest brown one, Ella did get clucky she would sit on the nest 24/7 it was sad to watch. With clucky chickens you kind of have to be cruel to be kind, we made her an isolation cage, the theory behind them is that they're so uncomfortably the chicken is put off being clucky. She was in her isolation cage for three days, with water and food but not much else and thank goodness it worked - she is now back to being her happy chicken self, joining in with the others :)
