Not that I am in any position to keep animals at the moment but should the opportunity ever arise I would love to have some chicken (and pigs and goats and turkeys...). They would have to be rare (i.e. endangered) breeds, of which there are, sadly, plenty. One of them is the Bergische Kräher (Bergische Crower), one of the oldest chicken breeds in Germany. There is something elegant and kind of aristocratic about their frame and plumage; the hens, for instance, have black and goldisch yellow feathers.
Having said that, the Bergische Kräher probably is the kind of chicken breed one shouldn't keep in an urban environment as these birds belong to the long crowers with the roosters' crow lasting up to 15 seconds. Although, personally I would much rather be woken up by this "opera chicken" than the noise of cars, construction work and drunk people on their way home from a night out.
