Can you keep chickens in a Dog crate inside the house?

[eggzettera]

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Not that I would do this, but I still want to know where are you getting all the refrigerator boxes?

 

[mirecipes]

I hear that appliance rental places will give them to you

Like Aarons or Rent-a-center

I have sent folks looking there when they want big boxes (mostly for kids playhouses

 

[spookyevilone]

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Veterinary program, animal forensics class - we had to do fecal bacteria cultures from everything, including broody chickens, constipated snakes, colicking horses, 'blown up' cows, and impacted human beings. Compared to fresh poo. Guess how you get a fecal sample from something still in the colon. G'wan. Guess.

I can't eat food that's been in a refrigerator more than 24 hours anymore, because any protein-product that's been in a fridge more than that has a higher bacteria count than fermented poo.

-Spooky

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

Are we starting to get off the subject? All this poop talk is starting to make me sick.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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[Rhett&SarahsMom]

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I will have to check that out this summer. Kid will love it

 

[WiseChicks]

Like Spooky, I have Seramas in the house until spring; I just got them a week ago. Right now, they have the run of the small upstairs bathroom, and I am hoping to get a large screen enclosure done in the next week for them. I have baby Blue Jersey Giants in a jumbo wire crate in the diningroom, and I have a few quarentined birds in jumbo wire cages in the laundry room. I have a jumbo crate in th bedroom with a young roo and a Jersey hen that was getting beat up by the other birds. They are comfy and happy, have enough room to move around in. If you live in the frozen north, it is just too dang cold to put certain breeds or younglings outside. I use pine bedding, change it every few days, and vacuum thoroughly. It is no worse than the cat's litter box. We take birds out and socialize them every day, and as soon as it gets to a temperature where they can survive, they will go outside. I have day old chicks in the hatcher that will go into the indoor brooder in the next day or 2.

My 2 cents.

 

[walkswithdog]

I keep rehabilitating chickens in the house in crates, whenever necessary. In the kitchen, it's all tile and get's late day sun. They get to come out and stretch and sun twice a day.

They don't make a ton of mess. Some laying hens will almost hold it, like a broody and tend to keep the crate cleaner than the roos do.

With sufficient time out and some sun, keeping it like that wouldn't be too complicated. Litter training is, however, silly. Just as likely (NOT) to get it to poop on a toilet. The brain is the size of a PEA! Not gonna happen.

 

[mom2fourbebes]

I'm sticking my beak into this...

Bee-bee and Shy-Shy live with us in our apartment...We got them from the Tractor Supply feed store about a little over a year ago...They wear diapers and drink out of Sadie's (our boxer) water bowl....They gang up on Sadie and push her out of the sun spot so that they can lay there...

They wear diapers and I just ordered some more...They have the cleanest feet and feathers....They only lay eggs in the corner of our living room where our big palm tree stands (guess they like the darkness the palm tree makes) We put a basket with hay in that corner and every morning we have two eggs... They do cluck and make a fuss when they lay an egg..still haven't figured that one out so we just turn up Kelly Clarkson or Billy Joel and so far our neighbors haven't complained...

I love them to death! They watch One life to Live with me (I'm sorry I admitted that) and Judge Judy...The kids do homework on the floor and they tend to roost on their backs while they lay there doing their homework...

...And I wouldn't have it any other way!

By the way, Bee-Bee is my brave Barred Rock girl and Shy-Shy is my, you guessed it, "shy" Ameracauna girl....

 

[GardenerGal]

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You won't want to know what's going on on your skin every day, then.

AFAIC, the bacteria that grows on food in the refrigerator is nothing our immune systems can't handle. Just think about how our (recent) ancestors had no refrigeration at all and managed to thrive. Our bodies are part of Nature and have developed to deal with it.

So unless you - or your chickens - poop on the food in the icebox (bringing this back on topic

), poop being full of E. coli... which IS potentially harmful to us if we get a nasty mutated strain... then I would not worry about your two-day-old casserole leftovers.

Besides, you can "nuke" everything in the microwave.