Burning Question

[shawluvsbirds]

This is great stuff

 

[Cayuga momma]

I have mine in brooders in the house right now. (Still working on fort knox coop). I let my oldest out so she isn't isolated. (All the other chicks we got with her died.) In my fear that I was gonna lose her too, I babied her. I hate the poop and can't wait to get her out to the coop. I don't recomend house chickens. Between the poop and their dander I'm going nuts!

 

[HappyClucker7]

I'll cuddle my baby chicks in my recliner for small blocks of time, and sometimes they poop on me....but mostly they wait until I put them back OR give them to my husband. I handed him a baby the other day and it pooped on him twice in a row!.. the second one was cecal too

 

[rosemarythyme]

Also, my chickens poop everywhere too. I would not trust them not to poop in my house.

Same here. Though I've read that some house chickens are trained to "hold off" so they poop in a set location. I suppose if a parrot can be trained to do that then so could a chicken, with enough work. I had a cockatiel that trained himself to not poop while I napped (he'd sit on my leg) so in that case, yes I felt perfectly safe letting him run around on my bed.

 

[MyChickenShack]

I like my chickens, but they are livestock...therefore, they are outside