My wife has always wanted chickens but we have always lived in neighborhoods where it would not be appropriate.  When opened the Nursery we though it would be a good time to get some chickens.  I also found out that Guineas were good natural pest control birds so I bought 25 guinea chicks and 10 Dominick female chickens.  I built a pin inside our old farm house and put hay, water, food, and a heat lamp to keep them warm.  They did quite well but we did loose a few right off the bat to cold and sickness.  One of the Guineas got trampled and his leg was twisted outwards so that now he walks with a bad limp.  We named him Gimpy.  After they grew big enough to go outside I built a coop with a wire fence but the guineas figured out how to fly very quickly.  The chickens figured out how to dig under very quickly.  It was a struggle keeping them in the coop and I quickly realized they weren't wandering too far so I didn't make it a big priority to run after them.  The Guineas quickly became very much a BIG nuisance though.  They are LOUD!  They will squawk at the slightest thing.  They have almost gotten themselves eaten by hawks on several occasions due to their own loudness.  I would try to get them into the coop before leaving for the evening but they would not want to go so they would fly up onto the roof of a barn and squawk loudly at me.  A hawk would start to circle at the noise and I would try to get them down but they would be oblivious to the danger and keep doing it.
Eventually I had to give them away (except for Gimpy the handicapped one) because they started wandering into the neighbors yard and eating their new grass seed.  I did get 9 more chickens from a friend who had to move and couldn't take his chickens.
There is definitely a pecking order though in the yard between the Dominick's and the Delaware chickens.  They are very separate groups except one white one has decided the Dominick group is the better group.  They have all gotten quite fat from dinner scraps and waddle around the yard.  They like to take dust baths in the barn or relax in the tall grass.
I have a few favorites (or they like me best - I can't quite tell which way it goes).  There is a Delaware I call "4 toes" because she is missing a toe nail and she definitely has a liking for me and follows me like a dog.  There is a Dominick that also will follow me around more.  The Dominick's will squat and allow us to pick them up.  My son loves to bring them food on the weekends and they chase him around the nursery.  He calls them senorita fluffy butts!  Surprisingly I really like them better than most of the other pets we have ever had (especially cats)!  Unfortunately we have lost about 5 to local predators.  I found a pile of gray feathers the other day behind the barn and nothing else.  I've expanded the chicken run so we can contain them at night and when I'm not there and am putting bird wire on top so they can't fly out.  As much as I'd like for them to be free all the time I want to keep them safe too.

The eggs are really very good.  We have been getting approximately a dozen a day now and started selling them at the local farmers market on weekends.  It is now a tradition to have French toast every Sunday at our house.