I wanted to say if you have children the ladies will be nice to them if they know them.
Roosters on the other hand. I went through 5 before I understood how to raise one for family life.
They must be handled daily. Even after they are hard to catch.
AS well the hens need a rooster. When we culled the first rooster our hens started humping each other. It stopped when we got another rooster.
Dont be fooled by our world systems. There is only prey and predators in our world. Chickens are mostly predators.
I once gazed into the eyes of a seemingly harmless hen for a minute or two. I have never been so chilled to my bones at the merciless predatory soul of another vertebrate as I saw there. You speak true to call them dinosaurs. I have visited an organic egg producer that feeds his flocks whole cattle, mostly dead bull calves useless to the dairymen hereabouts.
City folk would be well served to see that operation, and the spectacle of chickens stripping cows to the bone like piranhas provides edifying perspective. Daily handling is wise IMHO.
Also, don't fall down in a pig pen. Pigs can't digest teeth, but that's all that would come out undigested after they ate you. An 800 pound boar can savor a human head like we do a cherry tomato.
Real life is stranger than fiction. That is not a false conscript. Or is it?
Yikes! I might just keep buying eggs lol