people with house chickens

[kukupecpec]

Awww!!!! What a cutie! How fun to have a turkey! I've heard turkey eggs are the absolute best too. Well I know I speak for all of us when I say we want pictures of your diaper clad Lurk!
Ok now I want a turkey... DH would KILL me. I didn't tell him the eggs in the bator were duck eggs... I just bought them and hid the incubator in my dresser - brinsea mini advance so it's nice and tiny - I had to have ducklings. I just had to! I was hoping to give a couple to Trina and Pom to raise, but I may be raising them all inside so they are used to me.

I've also got two littler serama chicks in the house - only ONE egg from nearly 5 dozen made it to hatch thanks to the horrible post office. Had a dz+ shipped every week for a month, even had a few bantam cochin. Can't believe it! Thankfully my friend had some only a week older and gave me one to keep my loner company. In playing with my ducklings, I think I like them better. I prefer my indoor waterfowl to the majority of my house chickens. They all end up outside except for sweet Taco. He will always be my fav! Best pet ever. He is enjoying a new home though.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I'm starting to think that Sunni's lack of interest in food has nothing to due with recovering from the dog attack. I am about 90% sure she is molting. She dropped maybe 25-35 feathers all over the house today. Every time she would preen or when I would take her diaper off, she would lose two or three feathers. She has also lost a noticeable amount of weight in the last week. I don't want her to get too skinny, so I've been tube feeding her morning and evening. She sure is young to be molting, but I've heard that a chickens first molt can happen at pretty much any age. She will be 8 months old on the 6th of January. I think I'll most likely be picking up a lot of feathers for a while. My mom likes to keep the house tidy, so hopefully she doesn't mind the feathers all over the place. I'll have to try and keep up on it. I really hope Sunni doesn't go through one of those explosive molts where they are nearly bald in some places. She'd look pretty silly. Lol!

Exciting! I love painting! You should show off some pictures when you're done. I've added three little ducklings to my flock. I am determined to keep one of them inside. I think I've picked it out too, one of them is way more attached to me than the others are. She would rather snuggle with me than the other duckies too! I love it! lol This is Dixie my future house duck I made them a cute little basket with a fleece liner/cover for them to sleep in right next to my bed. Then when they cry I can just slip my hand in the basket and they all snuggle up with me. Dixie prefers to sleep in my hair, but I've gotta keep her from making that a habit, one day she will be too big to share my pillow lol

They are so cute!! What breed are they? I can't wait to see pictures of the cute little baby diapers. Oh and I'll be sure to post some pictures of the paint jobs and Sunni exploring the new house. I'm sure she'll love the house. Other than to the basement, there are no stairs. Sunni has a hard time with stairs. But at the new house she'll be able to cruise around the house without problems, and I'll be able to just leave her coop open so she can go in and out as she pleases. I'll have to keep a close watch on our dog though. As long as no food is involved, they don't take hardly any notice to each other, but I still have to watch them close. Sunni is such a little diva towards our three house cats. She used to be a diva with the dog too, but now she gets scared if he comes too close. Her favorite thing is to chase the cats or scare them though.

Hello everyone! Glad to find this thread via a very nice welcoming person who sent me a link. I have a house chicken and a house turkey! Its alot of up keep but its worth it.. Eggnog is my chicken i just got her from a friend she had a toe pecked off and another almost pecked off.. She couldn't keep her any more so she came to me and she decided she wanted to be a house chicken soo i just went with it. And since i already had a house turkey it was easy to adjust them together my house turkey is named little wing but we call her lurk or lurkey! Had her since she was a week old.. She couldn't walk and needed therapy which she got along with bi weekly injections for joint support cuz shes a broad breasted white and they are very heavy.. 30lbs

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Welcome to the thread! I have never seen a house turkey before. That is just the coolest thing ever. I just have one house chicken. She is in the house due to some illnesses as well. When she was 10 weeks old she got a hold of some string and it strangled her poor little tongue. I syringe fed her for three months before her swelled tongue finally fell off and she could learn to eat on her own. By that time she was getting bullied by my other chickens and she was really bonded with me. So she came to live in the house.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Oh! I almost forgot. I have a picture of Sunni wearing her new Hen Holster from @MaddiesMum She is OBSESSED with preening and playing with the Velcro straps. I can't get her to stop tugging on it. It must feel funny on her beak or something.

 

[kukupecpec]

I'm starting to think that Sunni's lack of interest in food has nothing to due with recovering from the dog attack. I am about 90% sure she is molting. She dropped maybe 25-35 feathers all over the house today. Every time she would preen or when I would take her diaper off, she would lose two or three feathers. She has also lost a noticeable amount of weight in the last week. I don't want her to get too skinny, so I've been tube feeding her morning and evening. She sure is young to be molting, but I've heard that a chickens first molt can happen at pretty much any age. She will be 8 months old on the 6th of January.

I think I'll most likely be picking up a lot of feathers for a while.

My mom likes to keep the house tidy, so hopefully she doesn't mind the feathers all over the place. I'll have to try and keep up on it. I really hope Sunni doesn't go through one of those explosive molts where they are nearly bald in some places.

She'd look pretty silly. Lol!
They are so cute!!

What breed are they? I can't wait to see pictures of the cute little baby diapers.

Oh and I'll be sure to post some pictures of the paint jobs and Sunni exploring the new house. I'm sure she'll love the house. Other than to the basement, there are no stairs. Sunni has a hard time with stairs. But at the new house she'll be able to cruise around the house without problems, and I'll be able to just leave her coop open so she can go in and out as she pleases. I'll have to keep a close watch on our dog though. As long as no food is involved, they don't take hardly any notice to each other, but I still have to watch them close. Sunni is such a little diva towards our three house cats. She used to be a diva with the dog too, but now she gets scared if he comes too close. Her favorite thing is to chase the cats or scare them though.

Molting in the house is oh so fun.
Not.
Taco had a hard molt in the house, and he was TINY so I can imagine your LF feather explosion. You will enjoy finding missed feathers for months to come. I still find the occasional feather under the couch or behind a desk... Poor thing was so ugly. They look GORGEOUS when the new feathers grow in though, so if they are kept warm, a hard molt is so totally worth it! Why they don't molt in the summer when it's 100 degrees just baffles me... lol
Then again for house chickens it's usually MUCH warmer in the winter haha - anyone else crank the thermostat up past 80 in the winter and refuse anything above 65 in the summer? LOL I'm a desert rat, we definitely have this temperature thing all wrong

 

[Ilovemyturkey]

I love this! To cute.. Lurks diaper is the same color as her

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Molting in the house is oh so fun. 
Not. 
Taco had a hard molt in the house, and he was TINY so I can imagine your LF feather explosion. You will enjoy finding missed feathers for months to come. I still find the occasional feather under the couch or behind a desk... Poor thing was so ugly. They look GORGEOUS when the new feathers grow in though, so if they are kept warm, a hard molt is so totally worth it! Why they don't molt in the summer when it's 100 degrees just baffles me... lol
Then again for house chickens it's usually MUCH warmer in the winter haha - anyone else crank the thermostat up past 80 in the winter and refuse anything above 65 in the summer? LOL I'm a desert rat, we definitely have this temperature thing all wrong

I love summer. I hate the cold. :/ If we set our thermostat too high the propane bills would be insane, so we set it to 62 in the winter. The house usually stays about 65-68 degrees, but to me that is much too cold.

I love this! To cute.. Lurks diaper is the same color as her

Where do you get diapers for you Lurk? Do you order them or make them?

 

[PhantomChikkinz]

Sunni looks great in her fancy new holster! I'm considering going that way myself, actually.

Theresa: is my jinxing you still in effect? I was able to get pictures posted after 2 days, if I remember correctly.

And hey, since we're sharing pics... I snapped a few of mine in the yard today, including my 1 month olds who hadn't been out until today

 

[Ilovemyturkey]

I get lurks diapers from avainfashions.com they custom make them

 

[Ilovemyturkey]

Your chickeis are so cute!

 

[PhantomChikkinz]

Your chickeis are so cute!

Why thank you!

The one month olds are 5 Mille Fleur D'uccles, a golden Sebright, and what I'm now 99% sure is a modern game bantam. Such cool little birds with HUGE personalities!

The Silkie pictured is Phantom (where my username comes from, obviously. Haha), the cuddliest rooster in the known universe! Not (fully) pictured are Polka Dot (the mama bird, who is a straight feathered sizzle) and the two little monsters (2 month old frizzled Cochin bantam, and 2 month old Porcelain d'uccle).

I've got a couple of babies in the brooder still, and I think their pictures are on here somewhere. It's an addiction.

Still extremely jealous of your awesome turkey