I have chickens coming in and out of the house throughout the day.
I've kept sick and injured chickens in the house until they die or recover.
I've kept chicks whose mother has been killed in the house until fully feathered.
I have a very popular egg box in the house.
It's all very messy and very dusty. it's also very noisy when the cock brings a hen in to lay an egg.
The door is always open, the sick leave when they feel fit enough, the chicks go outside when the various tribes visit and meet other chickens
and the laying hens rejoin their tribe when they're done
A chicken doesn't know it's a chicken unless it has other chickens to compare itself to.
A chick reared inside a house with humans will think it's a human. Chickens need other chickens to relate to and learn from. You are not going to be able to teach the chick what if needs to know to socialise with other chickens and survive outside should you decide at some point to let it out of the house.
As others have written, it needs chicken company and the sooner the better.
This story concerns a chicken who didn't know she was a chicken.
Shadrach's Stories
I've kept sick and injured chickens in the house until they die or recover.
I've kept chicks whose mother has been killed in the house until fully feathered.
I have a very popular egg box in the house.
It's all very messy and very dusty. it's also very noisy when the cock brings a hen in to lay an egg.
The door is always open, the sick leave when they feel fit enough, the chicks go outside when the various tribes visit and meet other chickens
and the laying hens rejoin their tribe when they're done
A chicken doesn't know it's a chicken unless it has other chickens to compare itself to.
A chick reared inside a house with humans will think it's a human. Chickens need other chickens to relate to and learn from. You are not going to be able to teach the chick what if needs to know to socialise with other chickens and survive outside should you decide at some point to let it out of the house.
As others have written, it needs chicken company and the sooner the better.
This story concerns a chicken who didn't know she was a chicken.
Shadrach's Stories