What is a "house chicken?"

[Dodgegal79]

I have a house chicken. She goes out through the cat door in the morning and comes in at night. Dad gives her her daily bread crumbs and then she sleeps on the floor on newspaper under the piano. She did hatch chicks 2 months ago in a box of garbage paper my dad had, she now has 5 little ones. She is a OEGH, so they aren't very big. But she has taught them to go outside and come in a night, so now I have 6 house chickens. The little ones aren't friendly like she is, not sure if it will happen.

 

[Davaroo]

Pretty bird. Please tell me you're using an AFECU on her?

 

[chicknhawaii]

You know, I was reading this and just thinking that you guys were all kidding. OMG but check this out...for $15 you can get a AFECU!

 

[Oblio13]

I looked it up in the dictionary:



House Chicken

[noun, hous chik-uhn]

A domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, wearing a diaper and kept inside a human residence by a crazy woman.

 

[asher]

My friend has been bugging me to start making chicken diapers to sell. I used to sell kids clothing all of the time.

Hey, maybe I'll do it. In my spare time...

 

[KrisRose]

I have TWO house chickens. Does that make me double crazy???

 

[Davaroo]

House Chicken

[noun, hous chik-uhn]

A domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, wearing a diaper and kept inside a human residence by a crazy woman.

'Bout sums it up.

I have TWO house chickens. Does that make me double crazy???

AS we say here in the South: "Ahhhhyep."

And people think this is all a joke.

"The greatest folly of our age is we'll embrace any notion."​

 

[smom1976]

oh my where this thread is going ....

now as for house chickens.. in a cage it would be no different than a large exotic bird.. They are soooo messy.. like a chicken..

I suppose that people let their exotic birds out to perch somewhere and they are allowed to roam a bit. (cleaning their mess up behind them) no different for a chicken..

Just easier to keep outside..

 

[Davaroo]

Actually, I think I'd prefer a chicken in an AFECU than some honkin big parrot tearing up the curtains and defecating all over the couch.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

We had a rooster in the house last winter. Actually he was a basement rooster. He would come up to the child safety gate at the top of the basement stairs and sleep there at night and hang out there during the day. It was always fun when ALL the animals(and kid) would get going.
I would turn music on. Have the kid dancing, the dog jumping around barking, the cats running around like crazy and the rooster on the top step dancing and making his cute roo noises.
After a while I never noticed his crow. But the husband did, so Fred went to a new home. He was a gorgeous bird. Not overly aggressive. But also not friendly.

I guess one day when I was out at the barn he got out of the basement and was free in the house for a bit. I am not sure how the husband would be about keeping a house hen. But am pretty sure a house rooster is out of the question