Having only 1 chicken

[New2COchicks]

So I plan to get 3 chickens, but what do you do when through age or disease you are down to just one chicken? How do you keep her warm?

 

[Sara S]

i use a fleece blanket for my chicks but howoldis your chicken

 

[New2COchicks]

I’m thinking of the future but I am thinking of one that is full grown

 

[Sara S]

oohhhh ok she will be able to stay warm maybe depending on your temps

 

[Rainwing]

I kept my last buff orpington in the house with my family. It was cute but it gets messy and smelly quick so you have to do a lot of cleaning. I know some people in Japan keep chickens as pets in their apartments, no idea how. She would sleep in the cellar, but didn't mind it.

The buff orpington wasn't an issue with tearing up bedding but when one of my hens lost her wing to a raccoon and I had to keep her inside, she'd always tear up her newspaper bedding into little strips and get them all over the place and make a huge mess. The cage had a pan at the bottom floor but it didn't have a tall enough border to keep all the newspaper from flying out.

This rooster had the rest of his flock pass away and it seems he does well in a coop by himself with some human interaction.

You can try getting some sort of heating pad for the coop when you get down to one chicken to keep her warm. Every chicken copes with being lonely differently, some do not mind it, but others become extremely noisy and distraught, and it's best to either sell them to another flock or get another hen to accompany them.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Keeping it warm isn't the issue, it's the loneliness that would be hard for them. I'm sure some can adjust better than others can to being a solo bird with some human companionship, others would probably become very depressed. If that's the case and you cannot/don't want to get more birds, then rehoming would probably be the best option.