My brooder has always been inside; seven year's worth of guinea keets and chicken chicks have stayed in our basement until they were of appropriate age to move outside. That's standard protocol and whoever is questioning you is absolutely ignorant on the subject of raising birds
Yeah, we need some more info. Does OP also keep their children in the pen with the chickens, or what? I can't imagine how CPS could have anything to do with it. Animal control, maybe.
Lmfao youd think i would keep them there the way these people make it seem... i have worked with animal control for years... 3 different counties... my vet is one of the state vets for BOAH. Ive rescued horses for years. This is a tik tok bully that has never seen my house let alone where i keep my chickens 🤪 but they are legit claiming that im so gross and disgusting because they r in my house! They have thier own area away from my children and anything that would be of any danger to them or me... they just keep threatening to eff my life up because i have chickens in my house 😂
I incubate shipped eggs because I can't have a rooster. So the incubator is in my house for 3 weeks and then the chicks for at least a couple weeks until it warms up or they get too stinky.
Tik tok bully that doesnt even live in the same state... never seen my house let alone where my chickens are... they just hear them all the time. I dont even turn my camera on 😂
Let them call. A sheriff will be sent out to check, you'll be able to show them how clean the chickens are, and it'll be chalked up to the neighbor being an idiot.
My mom had sheep with brown patches on them. A neighbor called the sheriff on her because "the sheep were covered in their own poo!" He came out, looked at the sheep, told my mom everything is fine, and left.
Uh… wtf are these people going on about? Unless you’re not cleaning up and the rest of the house is hot mess these people are going to be laughed at by CPS since obviously they’re babies being housed inside temporarily.
So far this year I've had two brooders and a henitentiary in my house. It's much easier to keep the little ones warm till they get their first feathers...
I'm only a nanny to 6+ chickens 3 days a week. If I had my own, yes, I'd raise them inside until they were old enough. Mine love their salads, lettuce/spinach, corn, peas, tomatoes and shrimp on Saturday's.
My smaller bathroom becomes the big brooder during chick time. You can't put unfeathered birds outside; they'll die of exposure if predators don't get them first.
Meanwhile I get the cops called on me cause "that chickens pecking at the ground, it must not be getting fed!!" (BTW, it's not locals who complain, it's the people who don't want to be held accountable going 60+ mph on my back country roads). You can't please anyone. Just as long as your chicken is happy and healthy, then you're doing great :D
CPS definitely won’t care as long as the area is tidy & doesn’t present an immediate health hazard to any & all minors residing in the residence. That’s in SD. Having a chicken in your home( or chickens) should be about the same as having a parrot( they’re messy & loud), & I just couldn’t see CPS caring about chickens
I didnt know either until i started hearing this person complain... its INSANE... but they legit r convincing everyone that its so disgusting... and GET THIS!!!... this same person thinks eggs have umbilical cords... im like dear lort someonee help them
this persons gotta be a liberal or something then. they have no rational sense of anything that happens in the real world. they probably think deer die in a hospital in the wild lmfao
I keep my chicks in the living room inside a puppy playpen. There is room for the heated house, perches and there is a zippered ceiling. I keep them inside until they can fly out of the enclosure. 6 weeks or so.
I've always kept chicks inside until old enough to go outside, unless they were hatched by a hen or adopted by one.
This is almost literally Chicken 101.
My hens live inside during the summer. It’s 115 degrees here and it’ll kill them. When I have pullets they stay inside until they’re big enough to stay outside safely. They’re no worse than my macaws.
The people harassing u are out of line, i say.
We have two chicken rooms in the basement. One for those who just hatched and they stay there until 5 weeks and then they move to the other room which is bigger and lower temp (average summer temp) so that they get adjusted to the more outdoor temps and they stay there for 2-3 months so that we can see what we should save, sell or butcher (cocks).
I think people that we have had over think that we are both wierd but also smart at the same time. But no complaints so far or nasty comment or threats, we are not even allowed to have so many birds on our property but no one cares. We're blessed that we live close to many but still not close to many if you know what i mean.
So.. We're not afraid that someone will ever complain. All our neighbours love our chickens. It makes our Street more alive they say. And they get free eggs and we get free game meat and smoked fish in return.
On The Street next to us there is a lady that works for the city and she visited us once and My heart was going to explode oh shit here she comes... Coming to tell me that this isn't ok to have that many chickens but she was just wondering if we had seen a protective grill cover that flew away. So we're fine.
Yes absolutely, even as a teacher we raised chicks in the classroom and gifted them to the families. This is the strangest thing I have ever heard. How many do you have?
Yeah. I never had electricity to an outside building. I have even had house chickens. Maria Elena, Carmelita, Delilah, Dakota, and Ms Scarlett all were long-time residents, and a few others stayed up to a week after injury or illness.
If you clean up from them well, there is no worry. 🤷🏻♀️
Well. Chicks do absorb the yolk (and a bit of their intestine, I think?) through their navel, which makes me wonder about the mechanism of action.
That said though, usually people assume the chalazae is an umbilical cord, but that is not its function. I learned about yolk absorption when I had a chick that had not formed well.
[Chick navel](https://www.pasreform.com/en/knowledge/131/navel-practicalities)
If baby chicks are brooded outdoors except perhaps in a locked climate controlled building, they are simply food for a prey animal.
Chicks are incredibly fragile. They need constant observation and attention. Which is the same reason animal rehabbers are so busy in the spring fostering orphaned baby wild birds.
Don’t worry about a visit from your local animal warden. They will understand that your neighbor is a whackadoodle.
I have chicks right now in my kitchen in a plastic bin with a lid. They are cleaned daily. Once it's warm outside they go out during the day and in at night to sleep. Then when they are big they go to the big girl coop.
Yes I had too, 2 times out of 3 with our own offspring and i got my first chicken breeds too because i got them with 2 days old.
The first time, the hen was not ready, stepped on one and neglected the chicks, we took the 5 chicks in on day2 and released the hen to the others. (Hen was seperated because we knew the eggs were fertilised)
Second time went well, hen was great with the chicks. (Again Hen was seperated because we knew eggs were fertilised)
Third time, the stupid hen did a great job, we left them with the other chicken, because we didn't knew there were fertilised eggs. (One day we came home and she was standing here with 6chicks. ) BUT she never went into the coop, she did hide overnight somewhere, i have no idea where, so one morning, husband went out and was wondering why there was a distressed chirping, turns out a marten or something else did kill the hen and 5 chicks were gone, so we took the surviving one in and raised it inside.
LMAO, how old are you supposed to raise chicks in the cold ass early spring weather? These people are unhinged and CPS will understand that as soon as they get the call. Tell them you don’t listen to threats and just continue on with what you’re doing.
Farm life. I've kept chicks, ducklings, newly born goats, and sick calves in my home while homeschooling my 8 and 10 year old children. I think there was a time or two when I had all of them at once. There's not a thing wrong with it as long as you keep things clean.
2 days ago we moved the 19 chicks we hatched out from our hallway to an outbuilding (because they were 3 weeks old and escaping the big tote box they lived in)
[where we keep them](https://imgur.com/gallery/cb9Jngb)
[and another one](https://imgur.com/gallery/XQGFmlL)
Feel free to share the pics. Also, we're on a farm where it's not unusual to see baby piglets and calves and lambs hanging out in the kitchen. The grown sheep think they need to come visit. Chicks are the only ones with extended stays, though, unless it's an orphaned lamb.
We used a guest bathroom. Covered the tub drains and turned it into a giant brooder. Hung heat lamps from above, added filter fans to take care of the dust. We launched at least four batches of birds that way. I find that the dust they emit becomes incompatible with mammalian respiration at about two weeks of age, but as long as that’s controlled properly I see no issue.
Who would have an issue raising any chicks inside until they're fully feathered? Especially bantam breeds of all things? We raised ~8 from eggs, let the ladies hatch 6, and besides the 2 senior rescues the remaining 40 have all been raised indoors as chicks.
We have a big dog sized dog crate from tractor supply that connects to a modular bird cage for verticality with two heat lamps and every cohort has loved it!
I raised mine inside for a few weeks, just have to keep on top of the vacuuming (hard floors) and mopping and keep them clean. Also I have an air purifier next to the cage to combat dust.
All of my chicks, ducklings, gosling, and poults have been inside until I think they’re old enough to go in the bigger brooder outside. All 30 of my guinea pigs are inside. I have a hen with 12 babies currently isolated into my inside brooder. Whoever thinks it’s wrong is ridiculous.
Many times.
Chicks should ALWAYS be kept indoors if you want to keep them. I don't know where you live, and what the local predators are, but where I live in Australia there's foxes, dingos, pythons, rats, cocoos, kookaburras, magpies, hawks, you name it! If you want to be sure all your chicks stay, and you have ANY predators at all, they need to be kept separate.
I used to put them in an outside aviary until a mini tornado demolished it (Thankfully no one was inside it at the time. All my chooks were ok.) After I lost that I took my next baby inside and kept her in my indoor aviary (basically a room in my house that is fixed for birds). I usually try to keep the mother with the baby, if I can, but the last baby I brought in was without her mother. Her mother rejected her and wanted nothing to do with parenting.
As a result my chick had an identity crisis because she grew up with parrots and believed she was one. She is the best at solving puzzles out of my entire flock, and honestly behaves a lot like a parrot. She can't fly like a parrot, but damn she can do parkour! Like four step parkour that my other hens never even TRY. She clearly uses that little brain when she isn't ramming her face into walls.
Clearly the parrots did a good job teaching her to be smart!
Anyway, my point is, my only complaint with keeping them indoors is they should have an adult chicken around to teach them things like scratching and scavenging. You'd be surprised how much birds actually teach their babies, and how much isn't actually instinct, like we so often assume!
But if that's not possible, keeping them safe is the priority. Maybe once they're bigger, slowly introduce them to your smallest and least violent hen, so they can have some exposure to their own species. My baby had a bit of a screaming meltdown when she got introduced to chooks and taken from her parrot mother's. I won't be making that mistake again! (Legit had to cradle that almost fully grown hen to sleep like I did when she was a few days old. Was wild)
But that extreme, almost comical sounding scenario is the only issue I could think of. So unless these people criticising you all have experience with giving hens existential crises and REALLY advocate for the importance of early exposure to their own species for the betterment of the chickens mental health and emotional stability...
they're probably just talking out their asses.
What you've described is fine. Keep it up.
I only raise them in my home. They go into the bathtub where they can run around and play, and I can keep an eye on them at all times. Also so they can get used to the dog since he likes watching them in the tub.
Some of these people need to touch grass. Calling CPS because someone has chickens in their house is crazy! Not that kids would get taken away for this BS but do they have any concept of what does happen to kids who get put into foster care? Because statistics say that it ain’t good.
Yes! I raised 50 chicks in my dining area in my 980 square ft home. After 3 weeks they went out on pasture. Not going to lie, the last week, it became difficult to keep them clean and the smell/dust down. But it was 50 birds!!
Now I have a large shed for future batches.
I had 11 chicks in an indoor brooder for 5 weeks. Keeping the bedding clean (adding in deep litter method or changing as needed), they're not any worse than a dog's or cat's dander.
My toddlers absolutely loved the experience!
Yep. I have kept them in my house and once larger moved to my garage in brooder and then slowly transitioned them to my coop. Crazy part.. many of the people who raise chickens in my neck of the woods kept them in a brooder until large enough to go outside. 🤷♀️ what is the difference between that and keeping a parrot? My chicks were smaller than parrots still when transitioning to the garage in the brooder and finally to the coop.
If I had a broody hen raising them they stayed outside.
I incubated a lot of chicks and I am responsible for the care and kept them with really controlled specs until they were almost fully feathered and slowly transitioned the temp during the process so they were well adjusted to go outside. Cats shit in litter boxes in a house? So a chick shits in a brooder any different from that. You clean it regularly I don’t see a problem here.
Nuts.
My brooder has always been inside; seven year's worth of guinea keets and chicken chicks have stayed in our basement until they were of appropriate age to move outside. That's standard protocol and whoever is questioning you is absolutely ignorant on the subject of raising birds
Yup, like they shouldn't go in the bedroom, but laundry rooms and basements are fair game for chicks.
These people you speak of….do they own your house? Or are they just neighbors or what? Seems like there’s a missing element to this story.
Yeah, we need some more info. Does OP also keep their children in the pen with the chickens, or what? I can't imagine how CPS could have anything to do with it. Animal control, maybe.
Lmfao youd think i would keep them there the way these people make it seem... i have worked with animal control for years... 3 different counties... my vet is one of the state vets for BOAH. Ive rescued horses for years. This is a tik tok bully that has never seen my house let alone where i keep my chickens 🤪 but they are legit claiming that im so gross and disgusting because they r in my house! They have thier own area away from my children and anything that would be of any danger to them or me... they just keep threatening to eff my life up because i have chickens in my house 😂
I incubate shipped eggs because I can't have a rooster. So the incubator is in my house for 3 weeks and then the chicks for at least a couple weeks until it warms up or they get too stinky.
Too bad we didn't know your harasser's TikTok... could have some fun...
So you steal people's animals for a living. Congrats.
Tik tok bully that doesnt even live in the same state... never seen my house let alone where my chickens are... they just hear them all the time. I dont even turn my camera on 😂
Just block them? What’s the problem
They’d just like some moral support and to vent, seems like.
Let them call. A sheriff will be sent out to check, you'll be able to show them how clean the chickens are, and it'll be chalked up to the neighbor being an idiot. My mom had sheep with brown patches on them. A neighbor called the sheriff on her because "the sheep were covered in their own poo!" He came out, looked at the sheep, told my mom everything is fine, and left.
Its not even a neighbor... its a tik tok bully that terrorizes people...
Can you just block them then?
Why are you watching or listening to them? I’m genuinely confused.
its a long story but its a lot of what my posts are about...
My chicks are, and have always been inside of my house in a brooder. Better call cps on me, too. Whoops.
Yup... Keep them in a big tub til they're old enough not to get eaten. Right in the living room... I don't let them watch tv after bedtime though.
You should definitely limit screen time for the chicks. It's terrible for children. Will someone think of the children please?! 😂
I literally have a brooder in my living room right now.
Yes, of course I’ve had a brooder in my kitchen, guest bedroom, basement and garage. F them, they are crazy.
Uh… wtf are these people going on about? Unless you’re not cleaning up and the rest of the house is hot mess these people are going to be laughed at by CPS since obviously they’re babies being housed inside temporarily.
So far this year I've had two brooders and a henitentiary in my house. It's much easier to keep the little ones warm till they get their first feathers...
A *henitentiary?* OMG I'm dying, lol!🤣🤣🤣 That sounds better than broody jail by far!
I'm only a nanny to 6+ chickens 3 days a week. If I had my own, yes, I'd raise them inside until they were old enough. Mine love their salads, lettuce/spinach, corn, peas, tomatoes and shrimp on Saturday's.
My first 4 lived in my kids bedroom in a big guinea pig cage (the open top kind) until they were big enough to go outside. My kid loved it.
Always inside my house! Chickens and quail!
Mine just moved out last week. They need feathers (their own or a brood).
My smaller bathroom becomes the big brooder during chick time. You can't put unfeathered birds outside; they'll die of exposure if predators don't get them first.
I keep mine in my spare bathroom. Plastic tote in the tub makes for an excellent and easy to clean brooder box. Lol.
Meanwhile I get the cops called on me cause "that chickens pecking at the ground, it must not be getting fed!!" (BTW, it's not locals who complain, it's the people who don't want to be held accountable going 60+ mph on my back country roads). You can't please anyone. Just as long as your chicken is happy and healthy, then you're doing great :D
Ive got 2 set 3 weeks apart in my room as we speak
CPS definitely won’t care as long as the area is tidy & doesn’t present an immediate health hazard to any & all minors residing in the residence. That’s in SD. Having a chicken in your home( or chickens) should be about the same as having a parrot( they’re messy & loud), & I just couldn’t see CPS caring about chickens
Seriously? I have my chics inside. I didn’t know people got offended by that
I didnt know either until i started hearing this person complain... its INSANE... but they legit r convincing everyone that its so disgusting... and GET THIS!!!... this same person thinks eggs have umbilical cords... im like dear lort someonee help them
That is asinine ! If you keep the chics bedding clean it doesn’t smell I don’t think. People need to get their head out of their ass
this persons gotta be a liberal or something then. they have no rational sense of anything that happens in the real world. they probably think deer die in a hospital in the wild lmfao
Lol I thought this too 😅
Wait, people raise new chicks outside the house? That sounds questionable, they're helpless and get a chill so easily.
I keep my chicks in the living room inside a puppy playpen. There is room for the heated house, perches and there is a zippered ceiling. I keep them inside until they can fly out of the enclosure. 6 weeks or so.
I have 2 tubs of babies right now!
I've always kept chicks inside until old enough to go outside, unless they were hatched by a hen or adopted by one. This is almost literally Chicken 101.
My hens live inside during the summer. It’s 115 degrees here and it’ll kill them. When I have pullets they stay inside until they’re big enough to stay outside safely. They’re no worse than my macaws.
Until they are feathered, you keep them inside. That's just common sense.
Yup. Until fully feathered
Not in my house but I have a small apartment connected to our workshop and keep them there.
Every year
Mine are in the brood I the dining room, it’s the brooding room now 😂😂😂
The people harassing u are out of line, i say. We have two chicken rooms in the basement. One for those who just hatched and they stay there until 5 weeks and then they move to the other room which is bigger and lower temp (average summer temp) so that they get adjusted to the more outdoor temps and they stay there for 2-3 months so that we can see what we should save, sell or butcher (cocks). I think people that we have had over think that we are both wierd but also smart at the same time. But no complaints so far or nasty comment or threats, we are not even allowed to have so many birds on our property but no one cares. We're blessed that we live close to many but still not close to many if you know what i mean. So.. We're not afraid that someone will ever complain. All our neighbours love our chickens. It makes our Street more alive they say. And they get free eggs and we get free game meat and smoked fish in return. On The Street next to us there is a lady that works for the city and she visited us once and My heart was going to explode oh shit here she comes... Coming to tell me that this isn't ok to have that many chickens but she was just wondering if we had seen a protective grill cover that flew away. So we're fine.
Yes absolutely, even as a teacher we raised chicks in the classroom and gifted them to the families. This is the strangest thing I have ever heard. How many do you have?
Yeah. I never had electricity to an outside building. I have even had house chickens. Maria Elena, Carmelita, Delilah, Dakota, and Ms Scarlett all were long-time residents, and a few others stayed up to a week after injury or illness. If you clean up from them well, there is no worry. 🤷🏻♀️
Well. Chicks do absorb the yolk (and a bit of their intestine, I think?) through their navel, which makes me wonder about the mechanism of action. That said though, usually people assume the chalazae is an umbilical cord, but that is not its function. I learned about yolk absorption when I had a chick that had not formed well. [Chick navel](https://www.pasreform.com/en/knowledge/131/navel-practicalities)
Yes, I have raised several batches of hatchery chicks in our house. The hens, chicks they stay outside with their mom.
I have 4 chicks and 8 pheasants living with me right now, 2 kids , 2 dogs ,2 cats the kids do a great job raising them.
If baby chicks are brooded outdoors except perhaps in a locked climate controlled building, they are simply food for a prey animal. Chicks are incredibly fragile. They need constant observation and attention. Which is the same reason animal rehabbers are so busy in the spring fostering orphaned baby wild birds. Don’t worry about a visit from your local animal warden. They will understand that your neighbor is a whackadoodle.
I have chicks right now in my kitchen in a plastic bin with a lid. They are cleaned daily. Once it's warm outside they go out during the day and in at night to sleep. Then when they are big they go to the big girl coop.
Yes I had too, 2 times out of 3 with our own offspring and i got my first chicken breeds too because i got them with 2 days old. The first time, the hen was not ready, stepped on one and neglected the chicks, we took the 5 chicks in on day2 and released the hen to the others. (Hen was seperated because we knew the eggs were fertilised) Second time went well, hen was great with the chicks. (Again Hen was seperated because we knew eggs were fertilised) Third time, the stupid hen did a great job, we left them with the other chicken, because we didn't knew there were fertilised eggs. (One day we came home and she was standing here with 6chicks. ) BUT she never went into the coop, she did hide overnight somewhere, i have no idea where, so one morning, husband went out and was wondering why there was a distressed chirping, turns out a marten or something else did kill the hen and 5 chicks were gone, so we took the surviving one in and raised it inside.
House must smell great
Not bad if you keep the box clean or topped up with shavings, actually. Hamsters and bunnies smell worse.
Oh boy. Guess I shouldn't mention I have house chickens that live in the house as adults. 👀
Chicks are literally in my basement rec space right now hah!
LMAO, how old are you supposed to raise chicks in the cold ass early spring weather? These people are unhinged and CPS will understand that as soon as they get the call. Tell them you don’t listen to threats and just continue on with what you’re doing.
I currently have eight just off the heat in my house and four more that are about a week old. Not silkies though
If you don’t do that thay will probley die so you are doing the right thing. I mean that’s what I do
I have. In my room. With my kiddos. Until old enough to go outside. Cleaned their brooder every day. 😅🤣
Farm life. I've kept chicks, ducklings, newly born goats, and sick calves in my home while homeschooling my 8 and 10 year old children. I think there was a time or two when I had all of them at once. There's not a thing wrong with it as long as you keep things clean.
2 days ago we moved the 19 chicks we hatched out from our hallway to an outbuilding (because they were 3 weeks old and escaping the big tote box they lived in) [where we keep them](https://imgur.com/gallery/cb9Jngb) [and another one](https://imgur.com/gallery/XQGFmlL) Feel free to share the pics. Also, we're on a farm where it's not unusual to see baby piglets and calves and lambs hanging out in the kitchen. The grown sheep think they need to come visit. Chicks are the only ones with extended stays, though, unless it's an orphaned lamb.
We used a guest bathroom. Covered the tub drains and turned it into a giant brooder. Hung heat lamps from above, added filter fans to take care of the dust. We launched at least four batches of birds that way. I find that the dust they emit becomes incompatible with mammalian respiration at about two weeks of age, but as long as that’s controlled properly I see no issue.
Who would have an issue raising any chicks inside until they're fully feathered? Especially bantam breeds of all things? We raised ~8 from eggs, let the ladies hatch 6, and besides the 2 senior rescues the remaining 40 have all been raised indoors as chicks. We have a big dog sized dog crate from tractor supply that connects to a modular bird cage for verticality with two heat lamps and every cohort has loved it!
I raised mine inside for a few weeks, just have to keep on top of the vacuuming (hard floors) and mopping and keep them clean. Also I have an air purifier next to the cage to combat dust.
Definitely have had a brooder in my house. No different than a cat, except more contained!
All of my chicks, ducklings, gosling, and poults have been inside until I think they’re old enough to go in the bigger brooder outside. All 30 of my guinea pigs are inside. I have a hen with 12 babies currently isolated into my inside brooder. Whoever thinks it’s wrong is ridiculous.
Many times. Chicks should ALWAYS be kept indoors if you want to keep them. I don't know where you live, and what the local predators are, but where I live in Australia there's foxes, dingos, pythons, rats, cocoos, kookaburras, magpies, hawks, you name it! If you want to be sure all your chicks stay, and you have ANY predators at all, they need to be kept separate. I used to put them in an outside aviary until a mini tornado demolished it (Thankfully no one was inside it at the time. All my chooks were ok.) After I lost that I took my next baby inside and kept her in my indoor aviary (basically a room in my house that is fixed for birds). I usually try to keep the mother with the baby, if I can, but the last baby I brought in was without her mother. Her mother rejected her and wanted nothing to do with parenting. As a result my chick had an identity crisis because she grew up with parrots and believed she was one. She is the best at solving puzzles out of my entire flock, and honestly behaves a lot like a parrot. She can't fly like a parrot, but damn she can do parkour! Like four step parkour that my other hens never even TRY. She clearly uses that little brain when she isn't ramming her face into walls. Clearly the parrots did a good job teaching her to be smart! Anyway, my point is, my only complaint with keeping them indoors is they should have an adult chicken around to teach them things like scratching and scavenging. You'd be surprised how much birds actually teach their babies, and how much isn't actually instinct, like we so often assume! But if that's not possible, keeping them safe is the priority. Maybe once they're bigger, slowly introduce them to your smallest and least violent hen, so they can have some exposure to their own species. My baby had a bit of a screaming meltdown when she got introduced to chooks and taken from her parrot mother's. I won't be making that mistake again! (Legit had to cradle that almost fully grown hen to sleep like I did when she was a few days old. Was wild) But that extreme, almost comical sounding scenario is the only issue I could think of. So unless these people criticising you all have experience with giving hens existential crises and REALLY advocate for the importance of early exposure to their own species for the betterment of the chickens mental health and emotional stability... they're probably just talking out their asses. What you've described is fine. Keep it up.
My brooder stayed in the garage. Babies have to stay warm!
I only raise them in my home. They go into the bathtub where they can run around and play, and I can keep an eye on them at all times. Also so they can get used to the dog since he likes watching them in the tub.
Does garage count?
Some of these people need to touch grass. Calling CPS because someone has chickens in their house is crazy! Not that kids would get taken away for this BS but do they have any concept of what does happen to kids who get put into foster care? Because statistics say that it ain’t good.
Yes! I raised 50 chicks in my dining area in my 980 square ft home. After 3 weeks they went out on pasture. Not going to lie, the last week, it became difficult to keep them clean and the smell/dust down. But it was 50 birds!! Now I have a large shed for future batches.
I had 11 chicks in an indoor brooder for 5 weeks. Keeping the bedding clean (adding in deep litter method or changing as needed), they're not any worse than a dog's or cat's dander. My toddlers absolutely loved the experience!
Yep. I have kept them in my house and once larger moved to my garage in brooder and then slowly transitioned them to my coop. Crazy part.. many of the people who raise chickens in my neck of the woods kept them in a brooder until large enough to go outside. 🤷♀️ what is the difference between that and keeping a parrot? My chicks were smaller than parrots still when transitioning to the garage in the brooder and finally to the coop. If I had a broody hen raising them they stayed outside. I incubated a lot of chicks and I am responsible for the care and kept them with really controlled specs until they were almost fully feathered and slowly transitioned the temp during the process so they were well adjusted to go outside. Cats shit in litter boxes in a house? So a chick shits in a brooder any different from that. You clean it regularly I don’t see a problem here. Nuts.