The apartment pet chicken

[Opiumbrella]

All the above are correct, they should be with their own, the smell & mess, respiratory issues for you is a concern as well all that bird dust. I had a parakeet in the house that I had to rehome due to the dust & smell.

However ... This one has been unique to say the least. Its a Serama single hatch Christmas last year, has had a watery, weepy, teary R/eye that I suspected to be URI.
Treatments for URI didn't help, discovered shavings & small animal bedding irritates her eye (dusty) they start weeping and get gunky. Treated with Vetrycin & Triple Antibiotic, clears up the eye but now discovering chilly temps affect her eye ... Temps outside was in the low to mid 60s, her eye got all teary. So treated again and now put a heat lite when it's chilly. But she is unique as this is the first single hatch that has been content with this living arrangement.

She's on potty pads at night in her cage, and day she goes out into the brooder that is in my patio. Has bonded with my 50# dog but will not tolerate my 8# dog. I bring her in around 4:30 - 5pm, she settles down under her Octopus and at 5:30 I put her blanket over the cage, close the drape at 6pm. No complaints, she's very quiet and I wake her (still under her Octopus) at 7:30am. She goes out to the brooder where she spends the day in the patio, in/out of the brooder or roams the yard. *** Note I ferment her feed, there is less poop and it don't smell except the cecal. I use the Horizontal Water Nipple and pick up poop in the patio when I come across any.

As the ^^^^ posts say, they are NOT house pets & social animals ... She is unique and a Serama. I recently got 2 chicks (8wk & 5wk) about her size but are large breeds, they share the brooder with a divider but she has no interest in them. Rather do her own thing.

Oh, and your little girl is precious. So nice the doggy loves her. I couldn’t even imagine doing this with mine lol. (I have a wolf dog and malamute) so glad your giving this baby the life she deserves.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Oh, and your little girl is precious. So nice the doggy loves her. I couldn’t even imagine doing this with mine lol. (I have a wolf dog and malamute) so glad your giving this baby the life she deserves.

My girlfriend that I raised her for says she's "high maintenance" ... Anyone else would have culled her right off. If she wasn't so "easy" to care for, I'd opt to let her go. Have thought of getting her another her size but it would probably change the dynamics of her personality. She is "unique" as all the other single hatches I've raised weren't "house" chicken material