Good for you. I am a chicken lover. We use to have several. But when I was a kid we had chickens, I learned that when they quit laying it was time for the stew pot. I did not have the heart for that so I ended up feeding several old retired laying hens. Not too practical. But one time when away from home a raccoon or something got into the pen and slaughtered all the chickens. Not for food just killed all and left.