Need the carpet cleaned~house chicken in house [HELP]

[australorpchick]

Oooh, thanks for the tip. My beige carpet is looking horrible. Now that my parents are moving out

, I can finally shampoo my carpets.

 

[ozark hen]

I just saw this post and let me tell you, I have been using my homemade detergent on my carpets for some time now. Not only do pet stains come out but the carpet smells so fresh and clean!! Love it!!

 

[Cetawin]

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Oh My Another Eccentric Person, huh?

PPl don't realize how intelligent a chicken is & how loving & loyal & when our chick was younger & my daughter slept in the room with him, he snored.Who could not love that?

ummm sure we do...that is why we have so many. LOL

 

[Silkiefan]

... yeah, we're out here, you're not alone! I too, have housechickens, and my remedy for excessive poo is to let them out during the day, and in at night... (sweep & mop with bleach every day) but since you live in an apartment with carpet, I understand you might not be able to let them out during the day, so here's what I do when it's raining:
baby gates in the kitchen. They're on linoleum, they get to clean the floor of extra goodies that the dogs somehow missed, and poo cleanup isn't that bad. Do you have a separate kitchen that you could use baby gates in the doorways? Oh, I hope you do, otherwise my suggestion is kinda useless and I'll have to agree with the other folks & say DIAPERS.
Good luck!

Hey, wait a minute... didn't you keep calling the chicken a "HIM"? how do you keep him quiet?

 

[fowler_chick]

uuummm i wont coment on having chicken in the house, my father is a land lord....it rememinds me of a show they have on a and e....laundry soap is the best way to steam clean a carpet, that's what we do all the time...(no chcikens in the house just messy kids!!) if your trying to hide the fact that you have a chicken why a rooster?...lol.....if you have a back porch of some sort i would ask the land lord if it was ok to build a small chicken coop on it!! on the coop section there is a really cool apartment size coop!!!.....Good Luck

 

[warmfuzzies]

Wow. I dont want to be a brat, and I think having a chicken in the house is your choice.

BUT you live in someone else's apartment, and you have a chicken in the house, which you let run all over and poop on the carpet???

Wow. At least put a diaper on the thing.

I think putting it in a puppy pen and putting wood chips down would only make it worse. How are you going to keep the poo and wood chips out of the carpet? Unless you have a hard floor.... but even then, why not get a cage, like a guenea pig cage or something, that keeps him off the floor completely.

THAT would be fun I think.

Think about the next people who move in, they may have a little baby learning to crawl on that carpet, eating things off the floor.

 

[citrusdreams]

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While I don't want to be a party pooper either, I agree.

No disrespect or flaming intended but what you're describing (poop all over, having to have the carpets cleaned because of chicken poop everywhere, getting in trouble for having dog pee everywhere, and other things you've said) is every home owner's nightmare. IMOHO it would be one thing to do this to your own home, but you're renting someone else's home. Again, no disrespect intended, but if I were your landlord and I caught you, I'd make you move immediately

That stuff not only seeps though the carpet, but stains the floor underneath and eventually will smell to high heaven. From the situation you're describing, I would think the floor's finish will be ruined by the ammonia and then again by heavy duty cleaning to get the ammonia and such out of the cracks and lines in the floor underneath the carpet. Then the floors will have to be redone.

That said, if you're going to keep this chicken in the house, knowing the people you're renting from don't approve, please put a diaper on it and keep it clean, or put it in a rabbit hutch or something. I can't imagine having poop everywhere and having the problems you're describing. I mean, it's *poop*, not a feathers or fur-everywhere problem.

Please be careful for your own health: I'd be a bit concerned about keeping a chicken in the house because of the potential respiratory dangers alone. The dust they produce (and then from the shavings you'll be adding) can be very dangerous to humans. Yeah I know, there are some people that can get away with it, but wouldn't it be unfortunate if you are one of the ones who will eventaully get sick?

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

I would suggest ripping up that carpet and you won't have to worry with it at all....I am so anti-carpet anyway

and I could never let a chicken live inside....if I did I would have to put the diapers on them....there are some ladies who make them on here.

 

[BlackBart]

If I leave the kitchen door open "The Three Banditos" (Hamburg, Yokohama, Cochin) are in the house. Sometimes I don't know they are in until I hear a faint peep from under the coffee table.

Paper towels for the lump and warm water with a bit of dish soap afterwards. Steam cleaning in the fall and more of a effort to keep the door closed.

One night I had to go out, we never lock out front door, we just pull it shut but that night I guess it didn't catch and the dogs must of pushed it open, "The Three Banditos" had a party in the house for three hours! what a sight to come home to, I think I would rather have been robbed !

 

[warmfuzzies]

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Mine come running in too, especially Henny Penny the ugliest production red ever.

Now that we have a new puppy who spills his food in the laundry room, they are all trying to come in for dog food.