Where your chick brooder is located MATTERS

[ChookaPete]

Very well written and I love your annotated pictures!

They illustrate your point excellently.



I think a lot of folks new to keeping chickens, particularly those that boast about it on social media more than anything (I mean online platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Reddit, not online forums like here), are the ones who think it's nothing to raise some baby chicks as well as fully-grown chickens in their homes. Any time you keep ANY kind of animal in your home, regardless of how clean they are, it will get dirty EVERYWHERE - especially with a furnace circulating air (and therefore, particles as well) around the home.


I adore my chickens. They essentially are my pets. But I only ever once brought one of them inside my home. I picked up Clover, walked inside, held her tight and gave her a hug, then put her back in her nest (she was brooding). She never even touched the floor. I just felt it was cute to hold her inside my house, but it was over in a minute. I know how messy they can get, even if they appear to be clean.

 

[GoldenSlumbers]

I just raised my chicks in a spare room for 6 weeks. I placed a duct booster fan near the brooder and ran the hose to a sealed window pass-through. Also closed off the HVAC vents so the room was basically negative pressure. Some dust settled in the immediate area, but the rest of the room stayed relatively clean.
It was only four chicks though. YMMV.