chickens as house pets? Opinions and views

[BantammChick]

I have a chicken that can only use one leg, and for a while she lived inside. She lived in a box. The other chickens would peck her outside. When she got bigger, she moved out in to the chicken coop. This is Phyllis.

 

[MROO]

Again... completely ridiculous. You would have to be home 24/7 in order to achieve a clean home with a chicken roaming free in it. Or you would have to keep it locked up in a crate like a dog - which is just cruel when it could be outside. And what about the scratching??? There go your floors... and with all the urine and feces??? Gross!!

C'mon, now. Everyone else is "playing nice." There's no need to be nasty!

 

[Aapomp831]

C'mon, now. Everyone else is "playing nice." There's no need to be nasty!

Nasty? Common sense... nasty is having a chicken in the house.

 

[FT Chickens]

Yes it does......

 

[AudieWarren]

Chickens in the house...... Oh heck no. It's gross....but then again any animal in the house is gross.

 

[JedJackson]

hey I was just wondering how many people have chickens as house pets out there in the world.I want to have one as my own and I want to know how they do also as house pets.and I want to know what you think

I don't see how chickens are that different from parrots, and those are commonly kept indoors. Chicken diapers can be made or bought, and they seem to work. So while keeping a chicken indoors as a pet is not for me, I have no problem with it if others choose to do so. If it makes people happy and the animals are happy, who has the right to begrudge them?

 

[Wil781]

I adopted a BB Red Bantam Rooster because he was not thriving and was behind his incu-mates. I had no choice but to have him in a large dog crate in my mud room. I would take him outside everyday that weather permitted and let him strut around a bit and then back to his dog crate. Chickens are very social animals so he would start raising a ruckus when he was needing company. When spring finally came I built a coop and got four Golden Comet chicks. First he is much happier outside, second I am very very happy he is outside! I love him but I don't want him in my house again lol. Chickens are very dusty and although he didn't walk around my house unless the weather was totally horrible, then I would put down Pee Pee Pads for him to get a little exercise, my mudroom was a constant mess. When I moved him out light fixtures had to come down and be cleaned, ceiling to floors dusted and washed only in the mud room I could not imagine having to do all that cleaning to my entire house. So my opinion is no poultry in the house they would rather be outside and I'm happy they would rather be outside.
Here he is on a day that he couldn't go out and he was learning to use his wings, thank goodness two weeks later he was in his new coop!

 

[BantammChick]

C'mon, now. Everyone else is "playing nice." There's no need to be nasty!

 

[4 Georgia Hens]

That is your opinion! And that’s okay that you think that. I personally disagree, I think with proper care, it is no more gross that keeping any indoor animal!

 

[KentuckyRooster]

Hope you don't ever have kids! They're way grosser than a tiny chicken in a diaper.