Indoor chickens?

[spacetygrss]

A coworker of mine recently purchased some day-old chicks (back in May, I believe). Of course, she kept them in a box when she first got them. Recently, I realized that she plans to keep the all in her house ( I think she plans to let them out back for a couple of hours each day--supervised).

Do a lot of people do this? I was just shocked since she has 10 of them! I can't imagine ten chickens running around my house!

 

[Farmer Brown]

Chickens inside from time to time can be entertaining but 10 full grown chickens living inside most of the time

. Ours will sneak inside from time to time and they always seem to say thank you by taking a poo before they leave.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh well that seems a little bit crazy to me maybe if she had less chickens and/or a house/cage/enclosure thing inside the house for them. Now that is full grown standard chickens but I will say however that some people I will not say lots have sucessfully kept bantam chickens in the house but I think they had like a pen or cage or something. You can do that with banties because I have heard they only get to be like parrot (large) size. but that is only with like one or two I think and so I think even with banties ten would be a bit much but that is just my personal opinion.

 

[spacetygrss]

Okay, so I'm not the only one who thinks that this is odd! I tried not to show my surprise, but I doubt that I was successful.

I can't even IMAGINE what that would be like.

 

[Farmer Brown]

Odd is a relative term when dealing with chicken folks.

 

[CMV]

As having had chickens (and ducks and geese) in my house on occasion, I must say that it is crazy to have chickens in your house. They are not meant to be in the house. They are happiest scratching about in the dirt in the fresh air and sunshine. It is not healthy, no matter how clean you keep them.
Every time I have to keep a bird or birds in the house I say "Never again!"

 

[ShrekDawg]

Nope your not alone that is odd haha lol

 

[SeramaLife]

I have 20 in the house. Tiny little seramas, and they are all in cages.

 

[silkiechicken]

Sure it can be done, but that is a whole lot of work to keep the house from smelling like chicken. They can be rather aromatic when not well ventilated, or not kept up closly after. There are a few that keep smaller bantams, such as game types, seramas, or silkies indoors in kennels, but often for show birds which are valuable.

 

[ShaggysGirl]

ewww My DH would divorce me...lol But I'd hate to smell it..the cat box is bad enough much less grown chickens