people with house chickens

[ChickenPeep]

MsChickenMomma, she is so cute! That pink color contrasts perfectly to her buff feathers... love it!

Yes, it might take her a little while to get adapted to it, but soon enough she'll be wearing it like skin.

 

[ChickenPeep]

Happy Halloween everyone! Here is a cute Halloween chicken video that I made!!

 

[kukupecpec]

I was wondering at what age your chickens started being house chickens and at what age they started wearing diapers?

I have 3 EE chicks (last of the babies from my precious Hermanos the Roo) that I hatched, and lived inside in the brooder for maybe 2 months before the next batch needed the brooder. They WERE in with the serama since they were roughly the same size, and Berry eventually accepted them as her babies, but we enlarged the coop with chainlink so the young chicks can fit right through the bars. I don't mind them roaming the yard, but at night they can't seem to get back into the coop with the other chickens. I've been finding them all over the yard in weird places huddled up in the cold for over a week so I'm thinking about bringing them in the house at night. They are all pretty friendly, no problem handling them, but I'm debating diapering them. Just put them to bed but I will have to take a picture of them in the morning.

 

[3ChickensNADuck]

I didn't get a diaper for them until around 6 months. I didn't want to keep buying/making new diapers if they grew out if it. But I've heard of people diapering maturing chicks

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Sunni is 6 months old. I would have started diapering her when she was 2 and a half months when she first got sick (if anyone here doesn't know, Sunni doesn't have a tongue. She ate a string when she was 10 weeks old, and it strangled her tongue. I had to feed her with a syringe for 3 and a half months before she learned how to eat pellets on her own) but I couldn't convince my DM to let me bring her in the house until about two weeks ago.

I have seen somewhere on here that you can start diapering chickens as soon as they aren't a pasty butt risk anymore. So about two weeks?

 

[kukupecpec]

Well I make and sell diapers so I have no problem making them, in fact they probably fit my serama diapers right now haha.

I think I'll give it a try

 

[kukupecpec]

Here the three little guys are -







I brought them in tonight, they were crammed up under the corner of the coop! Strange little chickens, probably freezing.
I set them down in a box with a blanket and all three snuggled right in! I set the box next to my bed, we will see how they do!
Probably wait to bother with diapers tomorrow, don't want to get them all strung out right before bed.

 

[VegaJones]

Hi guys I have 5 5week old silkies. Two im driving up north to my sister and 3 im keeping with hopes of buying 2 more pullets in the spring. How can I start keeping them inside. Sounds weird to ask but they are a little skittish and I want them to be happy with us so right now I have them inside. I hand fed them some yummy treats and put some scratch on a tray on the floor and we are all in the living room. I have wood floors. Any suggestions

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Hi guys I have 5 5week old silkies. Two im driving up north to my sister and 3 im keeping with hopes of buying 2 more pullets in the spring. How can I start keeping them inside. Sounds weird to ask but they are a little skittish and I want them to be happy with us so right now I have them inside. I hand fed them some yummy treats and put some scratch on a tray on the floor and we are all in the living room. I have wood floors. Any suggestions

My only advice for taming chickens is to let them come to you. (Unless you absolutely have to pick them up) Offer them lots of healthy treats from your hands, and sit near them, very still and quite. If you give them lots of treats and don't make too many loud noises or anything right away, they will learn to trust you. Also talk to them in a sweet and gentle voice. I tamed almost 20 two and a half year old hens by doing this.

 

[VegaJones]

here are my little ones