* Tiruin has chickens in her...err, how to say community. :v
Chickens are ok. They're free roaming though.
I've ranted on chickens more than once, I think. Short form: They're only ok because you're bigger than them and sufficiently mobile you can get away. Otherwise they would be devouring your flesh without hesitation or anything approaching remorse.
Chickens want to eat you. They want to eat you, your family, your pets, any surrounding bystanders, any organic materials that happen to be a part of your domicile, free-floating souls, and the platonic ideal of love. Because they cannot feel love, only hate and hunger, and wish to consume all that is light and goodness in a nihilistic orgy of consumptive destruction.
Chickens are not the devil. They are what the devil looks into the eyes of, and flinches away. As I've stated before, were they not so delicious, I would dedicate the remainder of my life to driving them into extinction. It's the only way to be truly safe.