Not to mention they'll happily eat most food scraps.

These are probably paid by big chicken

Having your own chickens is also great thing for the kids to learn some responsibility. Lessons on chicken foods and the terroir of eggs and the diet they have if you are an egg connoisseur.

... and you're less likely to ingest tons of poison / antibiotics/ residues of "vaccines" etc...
I used to have chickens, the yolk was yellow/orange, although from the supermarket it was white/yellowish