I dunno about the hassle thing.
Sometimes, there are a lot of slow people in the supermarket - not mentally slow, slow movers.
Geriatrics.
I'm a fast shopper and hate the log jams at the counter.
Having chickens would negate the need to go to the shop for eggs.
Imagine if I had everything I needed in the gaff - EXCEPT eggs.
If I had chickens, I could chill at home - safe in the knowledge that eggs will be squeezed out of a chickens bum pronto.
I could dig it.
I hear you about the slow shopper's ,
They move at a snails pace here in far far away land,
But still i dunno if i could stick the chicken's at all ,
Anyway my son would probaly torture them so much , they wouldn't lay any eggs
