Yes, I wouldn't take communication lightly, that's why I haven't tried to. Is it an intuition of knowing that it's good or evil, or judging by the activity?
Someone else gets to decide your standard of living, which may not be what your ideal. Someone else gets to decide what type of food you can afford to eat, and everything else you do has to fall under that basic income.
You may want to consider what you would like in life, and if you don't...
Yes, because I know how they were taken care of. I have raised chickens and butchered myself. They all had lives filled with days on green pasture, clean water always, clean barn/house to roost at night.
One reason I don't raise many chickens for now is: they loved life and trusted me, never...