[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Old varieties, new varieties... Mean vile nasty critters. And they bite. Or peck. And they really like the taste of the kids who come to feed them, collect the eggs and clean their nasty poop up.

Ducks are much nicer.

I trained the ducks to line up for feeding and they would wait in the pen while I collected the eggs and cleaned up the joint. Then when I tapped three times on the door they would file in.

I always felt a little sad eating duck. Chickens not so much.

[DJ MacWoW]

With Javas even the roosters are better tempered. They’re the chickens everybody had until the 1900’s when they started mass producing for sale.