Inside chickens?

[Shadrach]

I have chickens coming in and out of the house throughout the day.
I've kept sick and injured chickens in the house until they die or recover.
I've kept chicks whose mother has been killed in the house until fully feathered.
I have a very popular egg box in the house.

It's all very messy and very dusty. it's also very noisy when the cock brings a hen in to lay an egg.
The door is always open, the sick leave when they feel fit enough, the chicks go outside when the various tribes visit and meet other chickens
and the laying hens rejoin their tribe when they're done

A chicken doesn't know it's a chicken unless it has other chickens to compare itself to.
A chick reared inside a house with humans will think it's a human. Chickens need other chickens to relate to and learn from. You are not going to be able to teach the chick what if needs to know to socialise with other chickens and survive outside should you decide at some point to let it out of the house.
As others have written, it needs chicken company and the sooner the better.

This story concerns a chicken who didn't know she was a chicken.
Shadrach's Stories

 

[centrarchid]

I have hand-reared numerous chickens. The hand-rearing is much more intensive than brooder-rearing and based on your assertions more likely to cause social issues later. I also do a lot of hen-rearing where hen is part of natural social group in a totally free-range setting allowing for a lot of comparisons. Several times only one bird was reared at a time. All integrated as as adults very well and functioned as either hens or cocks (harem masters) in a harem (tribe). Tribe is not best term to use for natural chicken social groupings.

The groupings most people keep chickens are better described as flocks with some even crossing the line into sub-flocks representing cohorts of immature birds (juveniles) that have same home range but do not associate strongly with adults or other juvenile groups representing different cohorts.

 

[SW31]

I’ve had to keep two hens in our hall, after they were severely attacked by a neighbour’s dog, for two months. We used a small Omlet run. Oh boy, did I know I had them!
As they were getting better they became more demanding. One was renamed Angry Bird. She screamed and screamed to be let out of the roosting box as soon as it was light. She screamed and screamed to be let out of the run. She screamed in frustration as they were only allowed to go in the hall and kitchen.
I’d let them out of the run, go outside and let the other two out and return to approx 10 poos. I would say, is this a one paper splat or a two paper splat, clear up then mop round. When finished turn round to find they’d done some more - I wish I had shares in kitchen paper towels given the amount I bought.
Straw in their run got kicked everywhere and yes, there was a lot of dust in the house.
But yes, in an emergency, I’d do it again. But otherwise it’s outside for them.

There’s only so much stress we and the cat can take from AngryBird; funny enough she was never like that before, sweet at the bottom of the pecking order. Now she wants to be at the top!