Tell me about your house chickens please

[amyquilt]

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This is SO NEAT!!!! Do you have any design plans that you can share???

 

[cwc362]

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I think Seramas might be a good choice--I've seen several articles and some youtube videos in Malaysia? ( or whatever country they originated in) Where people kept them indoors in cages like birds. Evidently they are really tame also. Shouldn't be more smelly than a parrot , I would think. But I've never had a parrot , so I don't know.

But having suffered from Depression before-My advice is to get the chickens if they help. Much better than some of that awful medicine they put you on.

Good luck--Wayne in Huntingdon Tn

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

You do what you have to do. If keeping chickens will help you then go for it. I personally had my fill of chickens in the house this past spring I had 28 in one brroder, 10 in another 25 in another then DH comes in with 6 turkeys. Talk about dust. It also didnt help that they were three months old before they got the coop finished. I didnt mind the smell as I cleaned up everyday and they were in a spare bedroom at the back of the house but the dust it pereates everything. I don't think I will ever get it all out. Banaties in my opinion are loud. A friend of DH's gave us ten banties we now have over 35 as they are very prolific and broody but they are loud I think they are louder than my standard chickens. especially the roosters. they crow all hours of the day and night.

 

[Chickenaddict]

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This is SO NEAT!!!! Do you have any design plans that you can share???

I wish i would have wrote it down but i winged it and used materials that were VERY inexpensive along with things i had laying around. 4- 2 by 2's were used as posts for the corners. The box is 5 ft by 3 ft by 3 ft tall. the linolium tiles i bought at home depot for $10 a box i believe there were 45 tiles that were 12 inch by 12 inch. I didn't need all of them so i had extras, I built a frame with no top with the 2 by 2's and screwed a bottom to them using plywood, tiled it before i screwed the bottom on. I then took thin plywood for the "walls which i only made 2 ft high all the way around, i had it cut at home depot as well as the 2 by 2's... Made it a real snap to put together. I put the tiles 1 ft high on the walls and left the rest bare, then i used 1 by 2's as a border just above the tile line on the walls for extra support and a decorative look, also gave me a ledge to prop the nesting boxes on, one on either end of the box which free'd up alot of floor space, i took another 2 by 2 and screwed it into each nesting box creating a middle perch between the 2 boxes. I then finished framing the roof with 2 by 2's and stapled chicken wire over the top and sides to make it airy, then i took a shower curtain rod and put it over the front of the box to add curtains instead of making a door or using chicken wire. I hope that helps lol im not good at translating that kind of stuff. But am pretty good at winging things lol. The nesting boxes were unfinished wood crates i bought at michaels for $10 each. I then painted them blue to go with the blue tile and voila an indoor chicken house

 

[amyquilt]

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I think Seramas might be a good choice--I've seen several articles and some youtube videos in Malaysia? ( or whatever country they originated in) Where people kept them indoors in cages like birds. Evidently they are really tame also. Shouldn't be more smelly than a parrot , I would think. But I've never had a parrot , so I don't know.

But having suffered from Depression before-My advice is to get the chickens if they help. Much better than some of that awful medicine they put you on.

Good luck--Wayne in Huntingdon Tn

Thanks Wayne.
I am on meds, but the chickens were definitely theraputic, as well.

I'm looking at Seramas and Silkies. I only want 2-3, not a bunch...that would be way too much to handle indoors.

 

[amyquilt]

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This is SO NEAT!!!! Do you have any design plans that you can share???

I wish i would have wrote it down but i winged it and used materials that were VERY inexpensive along with things i had laying around. 4- 2 by 2's were used as posts for the corners. The box is 5 ft by 3 ft by 3 ft tall. the linolium tiles i bought at home depot for $10 a box i believe there were 45 tiles that were 12 inch by 12 inch. I didn't need all of them so i had extras, I built a frame with no top with the 2 by 2's and screwed a bottom to them using plywood, tiled it before i screwed the bottom on. I then took thin plywood for the "walls which i only made 2 ft high all the way around, i had it cut at home depot as well as the 2 by 2's... Made it a real snap to put together. I put the tiles 1 ft high on the walls and left the rest bare, then i used 1 by 2's as a border just above the tile line on the walls for extra support and a decorative look, also gave me a ledge to prop the nesting boxes on, one on either end of the box which free'd up alot of floor space, i took another 2 by 2 and screwed it into each nesting box creating a middle perch between the 2 boxes. I then finished framing the roof with 2 by 2's and stapled chicken wire over the top and sides to make it airy, then i took a shower curtain rod and put it over the front of the box to add curtains instead of making a door or using chicken wire. I hope that helps lol im not good at translating that kind of stuff. But am pretty good at winging things lol. The nesting boxes were unfinished wood crates i bought at michaels for $10 each. I then painted them blue to go with the blue tile and voila an indoor chicken house

How many chickens do you house in that indoor chicken house?

 

[Chickenaddict]

21 babies right now, I had 4 adult seramas in it before