Pet chickens inside house...

[BayouPoules]

Ya know,.. I thought I remembered someone saying they had 101 House Chickens!

,.. it's a new member,. from my area... Maybe your chickens wont seem so bad to your DH when he reads 101 in the house


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4799686#p4799686

 

[emvickrey]

I live in the country near a gravel pit and many chicken barns. It hardly ever rains in the summer so we have lots of dust anyway. I raise my chicks in the house in a room I call the nursery. After they get big enough to my satisfaction to go outside I clean the room, dust everything and even the airconditiner gets cleaned up. They put out lots of dust. I have 2 dogs. One of them has shed everyday of her life and she's 13. It's worse in summer of course but my bacuume has more dog hair in it than anything else. I love my dog so I just clean it up and go on. Right now she is nearing her expiration date and vomits from time to time and can't hold her bladder. I just clean it up because I love my dog. I will NEVER have another as good as she is. Although she is nearly deaf she still understands me with hand signals. I have to walk with her now when she goes out so she doens't wonder out in the road becaue she can't her traffic. Before we could just open the door to let her take care of business and she would bark to come in. I do it because I love my dog. And thats why I brought George inside. I'm an animal lover. The ones that need special attention get it in this house. I refuse to kill or rehome him because i'm afraid he won't get treated as well.


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[Orchid]

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Really? How do you keep things sanitary? I have cats and dogs and kids in the house, but I do insist on keeping it clean...can't imagine trying to keep up with mopping up after chickens, too!

One of the differences to me between, say, a dog and a chicken, is that dogs are "denning" animals and chickens are not. A dog is very happy as a housepet because it's their instinct to have a den, but it's a chicken's instinct to roam around scratching up the ground and flying up to a roost at night. So it seems to me that chickens would naturally be happier outdoors. Although if your house holds a lot of undiapered chickens on a regular basis then maybe it wouldn't be unusual for them to scratch a bug out of the carpet...

 

[jacyjones]

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Personally I can't see how they would be. Kept indoors wearing diapers instead of scratching around outside in the fresh air for bugs like they should be? In my opinion it's not right or fair.

I have to agree. But then my dogs are kept outside too and only come in the house in the evening - they are working pets amd love their kennel!

 

[emvickrey]

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ICK. I have dogs and cats as housepets, but they are also housebroken. Are your chickens housebroken, and if so, how did you train them?


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Personally I can't see how they would be. Kept indoors wearing diapers instead of scratching around outside in the fresh air for bugs like they should be? In my opinion it's not right or fair.

Agreed.

George goes outside on most days. Sometimes he won't come out of his cage. So he stays inside. If he don't want out he will go to the back of his cage where he knows I can't reach him. IF he does he will either hop out when I open the door or he will stand where I can reach him and gets all excited. I don't know if he knows he's a chicken.

 

[RECE*2C*]

i have a squirrel that lives in our house the only way he will go out side is if i am with him and he will not leave the porch. He found us when he was a baby and hasn't liked it out side ever scene. So i don't think it is unfair of mean and if they want to go out side during the day who's to say she cant' or wont let them out?

 

[HLAC]

I have a whole bunch of chickens in the house.

No diapers.




They stay in the freezer... then go into the 'fridge and then the oven.

 

[emvickrey]

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Personally I can't see how they would be. Kept indoors wearing diapers instead of scratching around outside in the fresh air for bugs like they should be? In my opinion it's not right or fair.

I have to agree. But then my dogs are kept outside too and only come in the house in the evening - they are working pets amd love their kennel!

My dog I've had for 13 years now would choose if she wanted out or in. One year she stayed outside almost all year. She went where she wanted, hunted if she wanted or just layed around if she wanted. But no matter wheer she was when I called her name she came running home. She's not able anymore and we've moved where there is a very busy road right out front. She can't hear very well and to get her to hear when outside I have to scream her name then she thinks she's in trouble. So we use hand signals to keep her within sight which that is going on her too. As long as she's not suffering, I would change her diapers. She has abeen an exceptional loyal dog and I will let her live her life as long as she isn't suffering and I will keep her happy even though I have to cleanup vomit and pee becaue she can't hold her bladder sometimes.

If I put her in a kennel she will get depressed and feel like she's being punished and to put her on a chain is like putting her in jail. She wants to be as close to me as she can get. I go to the bathroom she sits outside the door. She is in every room I am. I know, off subject. Just saying, not all situations or animals are the same. I can't see having 101 chickens in your house unless they are in a brooder. But i'm certainly not going to judge anybody. I keep chicks in the house for a few weks myself and in winter they stay inside till they have feathers. Lots of work for me cleaning pens everyday but they are healthy and warm.

 

[rungirl]

I have a whole bunch of chickens in the house.

No diapers.




They stay in the freezer... then go into the 'fridge and then the oven.

 

[Sjisty]

I don't see anything wrong with having house chickens. Frack, my house chicken, actually went broody and hatched eight eggs in my kitchen! She goes to the front door and lets me know she wants to go out. When she's finished scratching, dust bathing, etc., she scratches at the front door to come back in. She rarely has any accidents in the house, so no diapers necessary.