The eggs, obviously. I buy layer's pellets (food) for them but they also eat most of my kitchen scraps. They recycle these into the most delicious eggs! That said, their happiness when we bring them home is priceless - they're rescues, ex-layers from farms - they get all the good days of their lives here.
They have two favourite times of year. Halloween because they help me carve pumpkins (I make a start on the face, then they peck it out to gruesome effect) and then they eat the pumpkins after. Also Christmas obviously for all the potato peel (boiled), sprout skins and leftovers - a feast!

I've been really impressed with the products. The runs are spectacularly fox-proof and we get a lot of foxes round here, thanks to being near the forest and with our garden backing onto a train line. The foxes have never got a hen. The Eglu Cube is easy to clean and keep free of pests. The Autodoor saves me hassle but best of all it makes it easy to go on holiday because friends can visit less often (and are happy to feed animals in return for fresh eggs!). A Pole Tree is my latest addition - see more below.

Rescue girls from the BHWT are lovely and a kindness (ex layers who farmers get rid of after 18 months but there's lots of life, and laying, left in them!). Get a good setup and then get as many hens as you can fit. You can't get a couple and then add them one or two at a time because the old ones will bully the new ones horribly (you've heard of henpecked? it's real!) Instead get them all at once.

The last time I got a batch of rescue girls from BHWT, they were the flappiest birds yet. On the first night, I lost one and she'd made it over the wall into next door's garden. This had never happened before, in many years of keeping rescue hens. In the end, I had to clip the wings of several (that just means trimming some feathers).
So it was a no-brainer to get the new Pole Tree, a vertical pole with perches and treat holders attached. My girls love getting high up, it makes much more of the space in the walk-in run, and it gets them up off the mud in autumn and winter!!!