Heh... my best friend from high school has chickens (not uncommon around here)!
She had some wonderful ones when I met her, but they all got old and her current bunch of chickens are mostly little brats. Recently, she raised an awesome little rooster by the name of Biggie Smalls, but I guess the hens picked on him enough that they had to find him a foster coop.
I live NEAR the middle of nowhere, but I myself am in an apartment. I do have a green-cheeked conure, Basil. He's enough pet for anyone, I think!