I have 8 hens, no rooster. :(
And yes, they are our pets. DD has them sooooo spoiled.
Just this morning, I look out the back door to see my 7 year old DD and her favorite hen "Miley", relaxing on a bean bag chair on the back porch. Priceless! :-D
No eggs yet. They are only about 4 months old.
Poor Miley, has a crossed-beak, so I have to make her soft oatmeal twice a day to make sure she'll eat.
We have 1 acre, so they pretty much run free all day until the sun sets, then we lock them in the hen house for the night.
We have too many critters out here.
Our backyard butts-up to the national forest and we have raccoons, deer, cougar, fox, coyotes and I DON'T want to know what else.
I've heard neighbors talk about seeing black bears & panthers here a few years ago. (before we lived here)