Have you ever watched, ‘The Natural History of the Chicken’? It’s a DVD and really interesting.
There’s a woman who has a Silkie that she keeps as a house pet. She lets it swim in her pool, then the thing lets her blow-dry it with a hair dryer! Insane.
Other parts deal with rooster issues, Big Ag chicken production and how to do it yourself. Not for the squeamish, but I thought it was well done, and I learned a few things. :)
When I was a kid, we had a rooster who thought he was a cat. He hang out with our cat, Amos-Moses, and ate cat food, hunted lizards and never crowed. He was a big Rhode Island Red, and he lived longer than any other rooster I can remember.