So we all love our chickens... the easily obtainable food and curios, the sounds they make when you wring their necks, the bloody mess you get when squish their young underfoot. But why stop there? There are plenty of other examples of domesticated birds that could make for fine additions to HnH. Off the top of my head:
1) Carrier pigeons, with 1-4 inventory slots, that when released will return to the claim where they were trained. This would expand our trade options while still being limited in flexibility and carrying capacity.
2) A falconry skill, allowing players to train and use falcons for hunting and combat. Perhaps they could be treated as marksman weapons and activated using the shoot skill, without relying on a finite supply of ammunition. There are a number of ways to offset this advantage: high creation/maintenance costs, a fatigue metre for the falcon, the possibility of it being killed in combat, etc.
Thoughts?