- Mar 14, 2015
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I live in an apartment and through lucky happenstance find myself with one D'uccle hen who is obviously an indoor chicken. I bought her as a two day old as one of three chicks, all Le Fleur D'uccles. I discovered at about 10 weeks that two of them were roosters. They would fight each other whenever I let them out of their hutch, therefore, I found another chicken person who wanted them. Singing Feather, my remaining chicken, lives most the time in a rabbit hutch sitting atop my bedroom dresser. I recently bought a 70" tall parrot cage which I am trying to figure out how to add "floors" to it so she doesn't harm herself jumping down to the floor! When I am not away at my job, I take her into the livingroom where her parrot cage is and let her sit on top of it. She is quite a character and since she is a single bird, she has bonded to me so strongly that she will shriek whenever I leave the room! Since she is so tiny, her shrieks are not loud enough to disturb my neighbors. I bought her a radio that I keep on a classical music station, and that seems to calm her when I am away. She is quite a prolific egg layer for a bantam, laying one a day for 5 or 6 days and then resting one day. Thank goodness she is not broody. I have a question for anyone willing to answer......I am considering getting more Le Fleur chicks in the spring, two or three more and I wonder if this is going to upset her once I have them all together, or will she welcome them? I know each individual is different, but generally speaking, does anyone have any experience with introducing a single chicken into a small flock? I'm just wondering if she would be happier in a larger group or kept as a single pet? Thanks in advance for any comments. this is not her pic, it just shows what her breed looks like