She’s a beautiful bird. I grew up on a farm, and grew an appreciation for Chickens. They’re a lot more intelligent than people give them credit for, and make great lap pets 😂
My entire childhood we had chickens and I'd sneak them inside every once in a while, but there was only one that my parents enjoyed having inside because of how sweet and sociable she was, she'd fly on your shoulder and lap and watch us from on top of the fridge. I miss her and wish I had another little friend to watch me cook from her refrigerator perch.
Your video was very informative and well thought out. Thank you for this! It brought back memories of when I had a chicken, Pepita, when I was eleven years old. She followed me everywhere, and loved to sit on my lap and relax. I will never forget what a beautiful soul she was! Chickens are wonderful!
She's too cute! We have two little adopted seabrights as well! I love their personalities. They've been very wary and skittish since we took them in but they're getting more used to eating from my hand and they've begun running to me when I come home because they know I give them treats. They're still not keen on being picked up and held but their progress has me hopeful. ❤
This is so sweet. There is a wild chicken who keeps trying to get in our house. She decided to live in our yard with our backyard. Chickens really really wants to come in the house. You are to allow her to maybe live in the house, even though we have dogs the dogs.
Hi, I have dogs that sleep inside, and at first they freaked out at my baby chick. My girl still does but her brother doesn't care much now. He'd rather sneak in the chicken run an eat their poop. Try having the chicken in a crate for a week to let the dogs adapt. Only take the chicken out of the crate when the dogs are outside at first. Then slowly reverse it, put the dogs in the crate, one at a time, and let the chicken walk around. It sounds like you could have a super cuddly chicken. The dogs will respect with slow training :)
When I feed eggs back to my chickens, I drop them whole, shell and all, into the blender. Give it a good whirl and poor into frypan and scramble. This hides the shell well and makes tiny particals hidden in scrambled egg.
Ren is beautiful and this video is so helpful. My bf recently got some chicks he's keeping in the house till they are bigger for the yard. I fell in love. As a former parrot owner and bird lover, it got me thinking, why not have one in my apt? One of his has bonded with me and really only ever wants to sleep on me. It reminds me of my parrot. They are sweet smart animals. Chickens aren't dumb and I hate when ppl say that. They all have these special individual personalities.
We have some indoor chickens. Some come in and out of the house like dogs, but we have a couple that really like to be inside. Our Polish girl Mavis is currently behind the television in the living room as she has decided that this location will be her broody spot! I love my chickens, they have their own room inside the house and come in each night. It gets kind of noisy in the morning but they are safe and have a great life! Put oyster shells in her food and you can skip the crushed egg shells.
House chickens are awesome! They're like any other parrot/bird pet, but way cuddlier and snugglier! My little rooster would nap on my chest when laying down. Soooo cute.
I've wondered how pet chickens are kept indoors, so thank you for explaining so much. I have a small outdoor flock of 4 standard chickens. Regarding food flying all over, have you tried fermenting her feed? If you feed her crumbles or pellets, fermenting reduces the dust. Mainly, fermented feed is easier to digest and chickens receive more of the nutrients in the feed. Enjoy chicken life!
I just adopted a disabled chicken. I started keeping her indoors, because she is mostly hobbling on the ground, and the rooster tries to kill her. One of her legs was injured by a previous owner. A lady online is making me a chicken wheelchair. I agree about birth control. I lost one a couple months ago from eggbound.
I have a serama rooster. He is very adorable and also an indoor chicken. Had him for about a week now. Very clingy and lovable. 7 weeks old and acting like our flying cat now lol
@amber82872 he never really changed 😁 clingy, lovable. Only thing that is new is he growls/hiss every time I say "see you boy" 😂 his most hated word now because he hates being alone.
Eggshell; get some water warm in a pot, when it starts to get warm you can start to rub the mucus part out, place the shell pieces on paper towels to dry out, turn the shells so they can dry through and through, place in pestle and mortar or a mason jar and the bottom of an ice cream scooper, crush up finely mix in with their food/slaw. By the way, beautiful girlie!!! 🥹 do you use a harness to walk her? I just got one for my girl, haven’t tried it yet, not nice enough yet.
a little late on this one but I dry my egg shells out before feeding them back to the chickens. if they are fresh they don't seem to eat them but especially if I have a bunch of egg shells I will throw them in my air fryer and set it to dehydrate. You can also just leave them out for a few days and they dry out.
For shells, I dehydrate them. I have a small dehydrator from Cabelas that works great for this. Then, once they're super crunchy, I put them in a Ziploc bag and pound them into nearly dust with a kitchen hammer. Then, sprinkle it over her food. This works especially well with scrambled eggs or other moist foods. As for the park - do you keep her on a leash? If so, I'd love to see how that works. I have 2 backyard chickens plus Rose, my adventure chicken. She's a Polish hen and lives inside with me and goes on trips wherever I'm going if it's overnight or longer (although she originally became an inside chicken due to aggression from the other two, she's now become practically my best friend, lol). Thanks for the informative video.
Thank you! We let them free at the park, but I always kept them in between us and they never got too far away. Always on the look out for unleashed dogs or predatory birds.
She's so gorgeous 😍🥰😍🥰😍!!! And a tip for her eggshells, either crush them into smaller pieces or if they're colored eggs such as 💙, 💚, or 🤎, only crush them slightly or feed her the eggs raw completely. It may be a little messy, but my rooster likes it just fine and so do his ladies.❤❤❤
i had a black silkie rooster when i was younger, and i had him harness and leash trained along with a couple of my other chickens. i used to get strange looks from the neighbors when they saw me taking artie on his walks
You can crush the shells as small as possible and combine them with the egg before cooking so they can get the nutrients back, I do that with my hen when she lays, she doesn't anymore, not sure why but I think it's best bc when she lays she seems to stress out before laying bc she doesn't lay in one place at all.
Thank you! I heard that I should bake the shell so it gets dried out and brittle enough to crush easily. I'm going to try that when she starts laying again.
I have had backyard chickens for the past 12 years. So I like to think I know a thing or two about chickens. And from what I found over all of my years of owning them they don't mind the heat as much as they mind the cold I live up here in the Pacific Northwest so they are exposed to a lot of rain and in my own personal experience. They generally like to try and stay inside on those especially rainy days. Personally would I ever want to keep my chickens inside and do the whole cloth diapering thing probably not. I think they belong in a nice coop with other birds. Because I think they enjoy getting to have their own space. And getting to have other birds around them. We currently have six right now and they go along perfectly fine and I don't think they would be particularly happy. If I brought them inside I don't think they would be as happy however I have had little chicks inside and they seem to enjoy it more than the older birds. But we have them in an apartment and we did not have a good setup mainly. Because we didn't have diapers for them. They just enjoy The Great outdoors. Obviously some chickens are different mine just so happened to like The Great outdoors.
I finally got my sebrights, a silver hen and rooster, and 2 golden hens and a rooster. In addition to my mille fleur and porcelain sablepoots, and porcelain and mille fleur belgian bearded duccles. I also have a ameracauna rooster and a buff orpinton hen. One of my mille fleur hens i hatched out this year resides in my house with my porcelain sablepoot hen.
Golden Seabrights! I raised a pair with my dad when I was young. At the time, my favorite show was 'The Wonder Pets', so I named my female Ming-ming and the male Buff after two pets in the show (okay, okay, so the turtle's name was actually Tuck, but I misheard it when I was like 8). Out of all the bantams we raised, they were my favorite pets.
I fell in love with chickens when my dad bought some when I was around 10. I could watch them go about their day for hours, so interesting to watch! You earned a sub, I look forward to checking out your chicken diaper videos, as someone who would like to eventually have a few indoor chickens.
Reading comments…haven’t seen anything about laying her eggs in her diaper. How do you manage that? I’ve had an indoor rooster for over a year, but adopted a young hen about two months ago so they’ve been living outside, but I’ve very recently been letting them in for brief visits. Both are clean and quiet. I used to keep a puppy pad under his favorite roosting spot, and he seldom pooped anywhere else. Not fully housebroken, but not far from it; thank goodness chickens don’t pee, so cleanups aren’t bad! (No carpet in house.)
She had a birth control implant that prevented egg laying. In between implants, I would only use diapers that could accommodate poop and and egg and/or let her go diaper-free when I sensed an egg was coming.
We rescued a flock of mostly bantams, got 2 big girls some how, one of the girls is pretty anti social so I am considering brining her in as a pet. Learning what that entails at the moment, will have to cage at night when the cats are in, looking to find out how much loose time she will need to stay healthy, already had a close call with another hen we brought in in an emergency, she was getting abused by her cage mates and needed nursing for a couple days but developed digestive distressed from lack of activity in a relatively short period of time. The flock will be moving to a bigger property soon where they will be free ranged during the day and I have to decide if we are keeping her soon, I'm afraid with her tendency to wander off alone she will be more susceptible to predation....
Oh, dustbath in house...not good. Dust will fly and gritty dust everywhere. Maybe a porch? Backyard? She prob has no insects living on her and thats why birds dust bathe, to kill those. She'll still be happy just going thru the motions of a dust bath on your living rm carpet. The fact that she is so calm and tame showes her to be happy and well adjusted. Well done!
You can ground the shells in grounder to a smaller pieces and she should be able to eat them or you can powder them (dried & powder) and mix with her food
love it❤thats incredible she's inside gorgeous girl only ppl that have chickens understand how magical they are my husband gets annoyed when i bring my english game bantam inside love the diaper idea
On the topic of feeding my chickens eggs… My chicken lays eggs and the occasional egg gets cracked. Just the shell and doesn’t pierce the membrane. I peel the eggshell off the egg in pieces and feed it to them that way. If I finish all of the shell I just let them eat the egg flat out. Not cooked. They really like the raw egg and every time I pick up one of her eggs, they come running lol. So that’s how I do it at least.
As a house chicken mum myself one trick i have found to get my silkie Copernicus to eat her egg shells is to dry them out in the oven crush them then i just mix them in her food chickens really do make wonderful house pets i have had my girl for over 18 months and she is wonderful a real member of the family.
Thanks for posting. I have a 10-week old silkie that seems to have something wrong with her. She may be blind. She is otherwise happy, healthy and very loving. I'm thinking about setting her up indoors.
I keep one inside too. i have many, but her is my pet. she gets in the garden too. they preen all the time. all the hens that lives outside, rarely live longer than 4 years, it's either disease or predators, so i'd like my pet to not die. she gets also chicken friends visitors too
Hello! Im thinking about getting a chicken as an indoor pet but im having a problem. At nights do you let her sleep wherever she wants and be free or you have a cage or something like this? I cant find a decent size cage for a chicken to fit in my house and i want to knoe your opinion on like should i let my chicken free at night or something like this
I love my sebrights my 3 girls are now 5 1\2 years old. I have a Mille D'Uccle that REFUSES to get her booted feet dirty EVER, she love living in the house but we made her ramps, shelves in our bantam coop so she can get anywhere without getting feet on the floor.
I have some Sebrights among other bantam breeds.... Not inside, I built a large coop and have a 10 by 8' shed to shut them up every night and open every morning to keep safe from predators. I also let them free roam everyday, all day and have food in their coop and their hangout spot. I have little bowls of their food I add water to and big bowls (fortiflex feeder pans) for dry food. They eat up the wet food and love it, fresh daily. Also an option for indoor chickens, a simple little kiddie pool with some dirt for dust baths.
If you're raising backyard chickens for eggs, don't feed them eggs. It trains them to eat the eggs you're trying to farm for yourself. Even if you yank it out of its shell and scramble, cook, and serve it like that, if the chicken thinks eggs are food, and finds out that what you're feeding it, is in-fact eggs (chickens are smart enough to figure it out, trust me), then you my friend, will no longer find eggs in the coop when you go looking. The chicken will lay the egg, turn around and eat it on the spot.
Toast the egg shells in the oven before you feed them to her. You can break them or grind them down and put them into the eggs to feed them back to her. This will help to increase her calcium levels
i have two indoor amrock or plyrock idk they are the zebra striped chickens and they love being indoors i find this video really great they arent messy i dont use diapers
Love your video. ❤ Sadly where I live they found out and told me to get ride of them or I have to pay 20$ fine everyday till they gone. So I gave Helene, Frieda and Goldie to a friend, the President changed in our community and he aloud me to have chickens yeah now I have 3 Easter egger. They are still in the brooder got Heidi, Elfi and Yule hatched on February 14 2023. I made a chicken run 10 ft x 10 ft and a small hen house my back yard is 70 ft x 50 ft Perfect for chickens. We have 2 cats and one dog. They fine with with chickens. But even having my own house. People try to tell you what to do, is horrible! I don’t tell them what to do. So I hope that one neighbor stays out of my life. Glad I got new neighbors on the other side and they totally fine with my chickens and we best friends
my chickens love non gmo , organic chedder cheese.. some come in my lap for hugs and patting. some dont. all indiviuals .they free range . hawks around . but like driving on the freeway you gotta live.
Your hen is amazing. I incubated and hatched my own fellow with patience, care and love! He is a month old now and he's adorable. He is funny and very playful. I can show you pictures of him if you want!
just found this video by randomly looking around and don't have any hen experience so perhaps my suggestion are really stupid for some reason, but to your question to have to make them enjoy the egg shell better. Perhaps you could do like I have done for plants and stuff which was to grind the egg shell in a mortel or something. It makes a fine white powder which I guess you could just mixed in with whatever else you are feeding her? It will be like a powder coating, or perhaps it could even be mixed in a mixer with water to make a shell infused type of drink that still just tastes as water. What does all you hen connoisseurs say? Is it Jay or Nei?
@@renthehousehen Is there any way for you to tell by the color, thickness or brittleness of her egg shells if her diet lacks sufficient amounts of calcium?
I have an indoor bantam frizzle rooster. I have a huge flock outside but this little guy is my buddy. I am trying many diapers and wondering where you get yours. I need the right style!
My girl Cath is indoor at night. Her sister Kim just passed away from this terrible sickness and I had the her inside for the last month she loved it and I don't want Cath lonely. I love my animals chicken, rabbit and a wild rat I caught and could not kill so the Ratamus is in the cage he has a good time. Back to the chicken she loves being inside. Great vid.😂
Don't knock it 'til you try it! For me, it's decently low maintenance and chill to have indoor chickens (until they get sick with a mystery disease, which is something I'm dealing with right now)
Just came across your channel. Ren is so cute! I have a frizzle bantam rooster who lives in my house with me, and I love him. Looking forward to more of your vids!
I have an indoor chicken who is disabled. She does not like other chickens so I wouldn't put her out with the other chickens anyway. She suffered wry neck as a chick and we got it under control but I didn't realize she would need to stay on the vitamins forever. She relapsed with a vengeance a few weeks later, couldn't eat or drink on her own, walked back wards at high speed and her first 2 toes on her right foot point to the left now, broken id guess. She wasn't like this when we got her as a baby chick. She will be 2 years the beginning of May. She lays green eggs about every other day. She has her own area in the house and I take her outside to enjoy nice warm, sunny days. She is not a cuddly Chicken but when she's out and about will get up on the couch, place herself up against my leg and take a nap. And she talks to me or answers me when I talk to her. If you are looking for rescue chickens, look for battery hens from poultry farms near you. They usually get rid of them anywhere from 12-18 months old for very cheap, $2-$6. They would still be laying at that age but I think would be great to rescue bc they've never been in the grass, haven't dust bathed, scratched for works and bugs and maybe never really been in the sun. They usually have to learn to do normal chicken things but those breeds are usually friendly even with the neglect of being shoved into cages with other hens, no room and little human contact.
does the vet insert the implant? I have a rescue 2 day old chick that Id love to make a house chicken. She is a very small chicken probably smaller than Ren. Its just so sad that we have made chickens lay so much.
It depends on the chicken! Ren didn't react when my other bird Mina died, and we enjoyed several months just her and I, just fine. As of 3 weeks ago, Ren has two new friends! They're all slowly becoming friends.
Hiya, I just found your channel when searching chicken diapers which are really helpful.. thanks :) Anyway, I decided to watch from the beginning because I think Ren is/was cute. I've only had chickens for a few months and love it. Mine are outside tho. If I didn't have indoor cats, other than my 6wk old rooster, I'd have his dad inside to give the girls a break. (Baby is being sold) You mentioned in this one about making the shells more palatable.. I cook the eggs, shells and all and mix them with half cooked rice. If you add some diced cooked apple it sweetens it and the shells absorb the moisture. Just crush them really well. You could also add a small handful of dry rolled oats lightly mixed. Mine go nuts over it. My rooster doesn't like eggs unless I make it tasty. Also for an upset tummy or sour crop, or as I'm dealing with at the moment, vent gleet, try a mix of fully cooked rice and wheat soaked overnight with a teaspoon of natural unsweetened yoghurt per chicken and 2mls yakult probiotic. :)
Ren does not but I have a new bird named Tina that will yell when I leave the room. It doesn't last very long. If this is a problem you're experiencing, I would offer treats while you're leaving so they are distracted as you exit.
Thanks so much for your content! I have indoor/outdoor hens (2). I haven’t found a diaper that works well. You mentioned FB and Instagram but I haven’t found the kind you have. Do you know the username of where you got them? Thanks!
The one she's wearing in this video is from Shannen Sews which is also available on Instagram and Etsy. The sizing however has changed since this was purchased, so be sure to review her size chart - she includes all the measurements and everything! My current favorite are Peckingtons (also available on Etsy) but they are on hiatus until February.
This is so cute! I love ren! You said your looking for more chickens to add to your indoor flock, would you get any larger breeds like buff Orphington‘s, Rhode Island Reds, silkies, or Sussex? Or do you think you will stick so small Breeds like bantams?
I love this I would love to have my sweet babys in the house But 10 Ladys and 3 gentlemen wouldnt work to well ! But you have a heart of gold to keep your sweet lady with you most all the time ! I do have to ask since you have been around chickens can you still eat wings etc I can not ! A wonderful video can't wait until part 2 God Bless !
Hii love the video I am trying to train my black chicken to like wear a harness bc then I can pick her up with the handle she is a very calm sweet girl and very tame so love the vid I'm trying to train mine
I think it's ok to rescue a sick chicken and keep it inside for a bit, but chickens are very social animals and they usually live in groups. Where do you keep her, when you're not at home and does she have to sleep in a diaper? I guess it's a better life than factory farming for eggs and meat, but still not species appropriate.
Sure, it's unusual but perfectly appropriate for having all of their needs met. While Ren enjoyed being a solo chicken (because her and I are bonded), she does have two friends now 😊I work from home, so we spend a lot of time together. She wears a diaper when we sleep together. What harm do you think is caused by living primarily indoors?
@@renthehousehen good to hear she has friends 😊I don’t think there’s any harm caused by living primarily indoors, though they should be allowed to be outside as well to be able to forage for seeds and insects, dust bathing ,interacting with their flock and so on. All their natural behaviors. If that’s the case I don’t see a problem. I’m only concerned that people who live in city apartments might see these videos and think it’s a good idea to keep one hen inside, possibly by itself while they’re at work, that would be sad.
@@Familiarspirits They're able to exhibit their natural behaviors indoor and outdoors 😊 I would hope no one keeps any animal at home alone all day, too! 🥲
@@Familiarspirits I agree with you! Chickens have a natural instinct and desire to scratch and forage outside they get micronutrients from the ground which are a necessary part of there diets. Chickens are also social animals and like to roam in flocks of at least 3! At night chickens need a roosting stick not a pillow. Also a diaper on a chicken long term could cause issues with the vent. Also a chicken on contraception is ridiculous. She should create an outdoor coop for the day time and bring her in at evening times at least. That chicken needs sunlight and a stimulating environment.
I just recently ended up with a house chicken, she's 2 months old.. one of my hens hatched her out with 5 siblings. She tends to get herself into trouble and need rescuing and so since I was the one to help her get unstuck from a pet pen panel at a month old, she seemed to imprint on me, she had been nervous around humans up until that point. The following couple of weeks she started following me around outside and isolating herself from the other chickens in the barn.. she stopped eating even though the other chickens aren't mean to her at all. She cries if she loses sight of me... So she's in the house lol, not at all something I ever expected to happen. She does have to stay in a cage/enclosure due to my other pets but she is happy as can be living this way.. it's very interesting lol.
She’s a beautiful bird. I grew up on a farm, and grew an appreciation for Chickens. They’re a lot more intelligent than people give them credit for, and make great lap pets 😂
I love my chicken. She’s my BFF. So glad others feel the same way.
My entire childhood we had chickens and I'd sneak them inside every once in a while, but there was only one that my parents enjoyed having inside because of how sweet and sociable she was, she'd fly on your shoulder and lap and watch us from on top of the fridge. I miss her and wish I had another little friend to watch me cook from her refrigerator perch.
Your video was very informative and well thought out. Thank you for this! It brought back memories of when I had a chicken, Pepita, when I was eleven years old. She followed me everywhere, and loved to sit on my lap and relax. I will never forget what a beautiful soul she was! Chickens are wonderful!
She's too cute! We have two little adopted seabrights as well! I love their personalities. They've been very wary and skittish since we took them in but they're getting more used to eating from my hand and they've begun running to me when I come home because they know I give them treats. They're still not keen on being picked up and held but their progress has me hopeful. ❤
Aww!
A chicken is a bird, many people have pet birds...of ALL kinds! Its not the chickens' fault humans see them as little more than egg farms!
This is so sweet. There is a wild chicken who keeps trying to get in our house. She decided to live in our yard with our backyard. Chickens really really wants to come in the house. You are to allow her to maybe live in the house, even though we have dogs the dogs.
Hi, I have dogs that sleep inside, and at first they freaked out at my baby chick. My girl still does but her brother doesn't care much now. He'd rather sneak in the chicken run an eat their poop. Try having the chicken in a crate for a week to let the dogs adapt. Only take the chicken out of the crate when the dogs are outside at first. Then slowly reverse it, put the dogs in the crate, one at a time, and let the chicken walk around.
It sounds like you could have a super cuddly chicken. The dogs will respect with slow training :)
When I feed eggs back to my chickens, I drop them whole, shell and all, into the blender. Give it a good whirl and poor into frypan and scramble. This hides the shell well and makes tiny particals hidden in scrambled egg.
Ren is beautiful and this video is so helpful. My bf recently got some chicks he's keeping in the house till they are bigger for the yard. I fell in love. As a former parrot owner and bird lover, it got me thinking, why not have one in my apt? One of his has bonded with me and really only ever wants to sleep on me. It reminds me of my parrot. They are sweet smart animals. Chickens aren't dumb and I hate when ppl say that. They all have these special individual personalities.
We have some indoor chickens. Some come in and out of the house like dogs, but we have a couple that really like to be inside. Our Polish girl Mavis is currently behind the television in the living room as she has decided that this location will be her broody spot! I love my chickens, they have their own room inside the house and come in each night. It gets kind of noisy in the morning but they are safe and have a great life! Put oyster shells in her food and you can skip the crushed egg shells.
Ooo I want to hear more! Very curious to see how the dust bath turns out!! What a lucky chick
It will be uploaded on Friday! Stay tuned.
Yes! Super curious about an indoor chicken dust bath!!
House chickens are awesome! They're like any other parrot/bird pet, but way cuddlier and snugglier! My little rooster would nap on my chest when laying down. Soooo cute.
I've wondered how pet chickens are kept indoors, so thank you for explaining so much. I have a small outdoor flock of 4 standard chickens. Regarding food flying all over, have you tried fermenting her feed? If you feed her crumbles or pellets, fermenting reduces the dust. Mainly, fermented feed is easier to digest and chickens receive more of the nutrients in the feed. Enjoy chicken life!
I’ve never tried that. Sometimes I mix it with water cause Ren loves that but fermentation sounds delicious for them too!
I just adopted a disabled chicken. I started keeping her indoors, because she is mostly hobbling on the ground, and the rooster tries to kill her. One of her legs was injured by a previous owner. A lady online is making me a chicken wheelchair.
I agree about birth control. I lost one a couple months ago from eggbound.
I'm sorry for your loss! Egg binding is so devastating. How is the wheelchair going for your other hen?
I have a serama rooster. He is very adorable and also an indoor chicken. Had him for about a week now. Very clingy and lovable. 7 weeks old and acting like our flying cat now lol
How’s he going now?
@amber82872 he never really changed 😁 clingy, lovable. Only thing that is new is he growls/hiss every time I say "see you boy" 😂 his most hated word now because he hates being alone.
Eggshell; get some water warm in a pot, when it starts to get warm you can start to rub the mucus part out, place the shell pieces on paper towels to dry out, turn the shells so they can dry through and through, place in pestle and mortar or a mason jar and the bottom of an ice cream scooper, crush up finely mix in with their food/slaw.
By the way, beautiful girlie!!! 🥹 do you use a harness to walk her? I just got one for my girl, haven’t tried it yet, not nice enough yet.
a little late on this one but I dry my egg shells out before feeding them back to the chickens. if they are fresh they don't seem to eat them but especially if I have a bunch of egg shells I will throw them in my air fryer and set it to dehydrate. You can also just leave them out for a few days and they dry out.
Thank you! That's a great tip about the air fryer.
For shells, I dehydrate them. I have a small dehydrator from Cabelas that works great for this. Then, once they're super crunchy, I put them in a Ziploc bag and pound them into nearly dust with a kitchen hammer. Then, sprinkle it over her food. This works especially well with scrambled eggs or other moist foods.
As for the park - do you keep her on a leash? If so, I'd love to see how that works.
I have 2 backyard chickens plus Rose, my adventure chicken. She's a Polish hen and lives inside with me and goes on trips wherever I'm going if it's overnight or longer (although she originally became an inside chicken due to aggression from the other two, she's now become practically my best friend, lol).
Thanks for the informative video.
Thank you!
We let them free at the park, but I always kept them in between us and they never got too far away. Always on the look out for unleashed dogs or predatory birds.
She's so gorgeous 😍🥰😍🥰😍!!! And a tip for her eggshells, either crush them into smaller pieces or if they're colored eggs such as 💙, 💚, or 🤎, only crush them slightly or feed her the eggs raw completely. It may be a little messy, but my rooster likes it just fine and so do his ladies.❤❤❤
i had a black silkie rooster when i was younger, and i had him harness and leash trained along with a couple of my other chickens. i used to get strange looks from the neighbors when they saw me taking artie on his walks
You can crush the shells as small as possible and combine them with the egg before cooking so they can get the nutrients back, I do that with my hen when she lays, she doesn't anymore, not sure why but I think it's best bc when she lays she seems to stress out before laying bc she doesn't lay in one place at all.
Thank you! I heard that I should bake the shell so it gets dried out and brittle enough to crush easily. I'm going to try that when she starts laying again.
I have had backyard chickens for the past 12 years. So I like to think I know a thing or two about chickens. And from what I found over all of my years of owning them they don't mind the heat as much as they mind the cold I live up here in the Pacific Northwest so they are exposed to a lot of rain and in my own personal experience. They generally like to try and stay inside on those especially rainy days. Personally would I ever want to keep my chickens inside and do the whole cloth diapering thing probably not. I think they belong in a nice coop with other birds. Because I think they enjoy getting to have their own space. And getting to have other birds around them. We currently have six right now and they go along perfectly fine and I don't think they would be particularly happy. If I brought them inside I don't think they would be as happy however I have had little chicks inside and they seem to enjoy it more than the older birds. But we have them in an apartment and we did not have a good setup mainly. Because we didn't have diapers for them. They just enjoy The Great outdoors. Obviously some chickens are different mine just so happened to like The Great outdoors.
My 2 hens love the outdoors and indoors!
“What they don’t know won’t hurt ‘em” is how I had 3 pets most of my adult life when there’s almost always a 2 pet limit when renting. 💁🏼♀️
I finally got my sebrights, a silver hen and rooster, and 2 golden hens and a rooster. In addition to my mille fleur and porcelain sablepoots, and porcelain and mille fleur belgian bearded duccles. I also have a ameracauna rooster and a buff orpinton hen. One of my mille fleur hens i hatched out this year resides in my house with my porcelain sablepoot hen.
Golden Seabrights! I raised a pair with my dad when I was young. At the time, my favorite show was 'The Wonder Pets', so I named my female Ming-ming and the male Buff after two pets in the show (okay, okay, so the turtle's name was actually Tuck, but I misheard it when I was like 8). Out of all the bantams we raised, they were my favorite pets.
Lol “tuck” 😂😂
I fell in love with chickens when my dad bought some when I was around 10. I could watch them go about their day for hours, so interesting to watch! You earned a sub, I look forward to checking out your chicken diaper videos, as someone who would like to eventually have a few indoor chickens.
Reading comments…haven’t seen anything about laying her eggs in her diaper. How do you manage that?
I’ve had an indoor rooster for over a year, but adopted a young hen about two months ago so they’ve been living outside, but I’ve very recently been letting them in for brief visits. Both are clean and quiet.
I used to keep a puppy pad under his favorite roosting spot, and he seldom pooped anywhere else. Not fully housebroken, but not far from it; thank goodness chickens don’t pee, so cleanups aren’t bad! (No carpet in house.)
She had a birth control implant that prevented egg laying. In between implants, I would only use diapers that could accommodate poop and and egg and/or let her go diaper-free when I sensed an egg was coming.
Agreed about the landlords! They overcharge and add fees for everything, just live your life 💜
We rescued a flock of mostly bantams, got 2 big girls some how, one of the girls is pretty anti social so I am considering brining her in as a pet. Learning what that entails at the moment, will have to cage at night when the cats are in, looking to find out how much loose time she will need to stay healthy, already had a close call with another hen we brought in in an emergency, she was getting abused by her cage mates and needed nursing for a couple days but developed digestive distressed from lack of activity in a relatively short period of time. The flock will be moving to a bigger property soon where they will be free ranged during the day and I have to decide if we are keeping her soon, I'm afraid with her tendency to wander off alone she will be more susceptible to predation....
Oh, dustbath in house...not good. Dust will fly and gritty dust everywhere. Maybe a porch? Backyard? She prob has no insects living on her and thats why birds dust bathe, to kill those. She'll still be happy just going thru the motions of a dust bath on your living rm carpet. The fact that she is so calm and tame showes her to be happy and well adjusted. Well done!
Etsy probably has tons of small businesses, why do you think none would be on there for such a niche thing that involves sewing?
I love Ren!! I have backyard chickens but dream about having an indoor hen one day. Can't wait to see more!
I bake the egg shells and then grind them into powder and add it that way.
Chickens can live inside…my mom says she prefers chickens to parrots. All you need is an aviator harness to take em outside. 😂
AHHHH love this content!! Cant wait to see more
You can ground the shells in grounder to a smaller pieces and she should be able to eat them or you can powder them (dried & powder) and mix with her food
Thank you for making this video!! I absolutely love it. ❤
love it❤thats incredible she's inside gorgeous girl only ppl that have chickens understand how magical they are my husband gets annoyed when i bring my english game bantam inside love the diaper idea
Awww.. She's so cute and her name too. Ren❤️
Mix the shells with dry food it’s all about consistency
They are such cuties.
I've been thinking of this for the past 3 months !!💯😂👍 she's beautiful ! Imagine you don't cook chicken !
Ren, you are so amazing and so loved!! 💗💗
On the topic of feeding my chickens eggs… My chicken lays eggs and the occasional egg gets cracked. Just the shell and doesn’t pierce the membrane. I peel the eggshell off the egg in pieces and feed it to them that way. If I finish all of the shell I just let them eat the egg flat out. Not cooked. They really like the raw egg and every time I pick up one of her eggs, they come running lol. So that’s how I do it at least.
Aww the little wave at the end 🐓❤️
As a house chicken mum myself one trick i have found to get my silkie Copernicus to eat her egg shells is to dry them out in the oven crush them then i just mix them in her food chickens really do make wonderful house pets i have had my girl for over 18 months and she is wonderful a real member of the family.
Gotcha! I'll try that next time
Sebright Bantams are so adorable. It is no wonder why the breed is featured in so many recommended breeds lists.
This is so good. I so agree with you and everything you said about her, I can say the same about mine too. Chickens are really lovely.
I’m looking forward to getting a pet hen since I’m allergic to pets but over all because my mom doesn’t want cats or dogs .
Thanks for posting. I have a 10-week old silkie that seems to have something wrong with her. She may be blind. She is otherwise happy, healthy and very loving. I'm thinking about setting her up indoors.
I have an indoor chicken with a parrot they get along c:
Yes use a marble mortar and pestle on washed shells that have been dryed in the sun
I keep one inside too. i have many, but her is my pet. she gets in the garden too. they preen all the time. all the hens that lives outside, rarely live longer than 4 years, it's either disease or predators, so i'd like my pet to not die. she gets also chicken friends visitors too
Thank you so much for this video. I am about to hatch an egg of a chicken. I am really excited about it.
Best of luck!
Hello! Im thinking about getting a chicken as an indoor pet but im having a problem. At nights do you let her sleep wherever she wants and be free or you have a cage or something like this? I cant find a decent size cage for a chicken to fit in my house and i want to knoe your opinion on like should i let my chicken free at night or something like this
I love my sebrights my 3 girls are now 5 1\2 years old. I have a Mille D'Uccle that REFUSES to get her booted feet dirty EVER, she love living in the house but we made her ramps, shelves in our bantam coop so she can get anywhere without getting feet on the floor.
I have some Sebrights among other bantam breeds.... Not inside, I built a large coop and have a 10 by 8' shed to shut them up every night and open every morning to keep safe from predators. I also let them free roam everyday, all day and have food in their coop and their hangout spot. I have little bowls of their food I add water to and big bowls (fortiflex feeder pans) for dry food. They eat up the wet food and love it, fresh daily. Also an option for indoor chickens, a simple little kiddie pool with some dirt for dust baths.
If you're raising backyard chickens for eggs, don't feed them eggs. It trains them to eat the eggs you're trying to farm for yourself. Even if you yank it out of its shell and scramble, cook, and serve it like that, if the chicken thinks eggs are food, and finds out that what you're feeding it, is in-fact eggs (chickens are smart enough to figure it out, trust me), then you my friend, will no longer find eggs in the coop when you go looking. The chicken will lay the egg, turn around and eat it on the spot.
We have indoor chickens. Or i can say that Home chickens. They roam freely in our rooms. They take rest on our beds, sofa and on my chest ❤️❤️
How sweet!
Toast the egg shells in the oven before you feed them to her. You can break them or grind them down and put them into the eggs to feed them back to her. This will help to increase her calcium levels
Ren's gonna be a star, a star I tell you. The Real Lives of Vegas House Hens *in bright lights*
i have two indoor amrock or plyrock idk they are the zebra striped chickens and they love being indoors i find this video really great they arent messy i dont use diapers
Try crushing the shell really small and put it in her normal feed
Love your video. ❤
Sadly where I live they found out and told me to get ride of them or I have to pay 20$ fine everyday till they gone. So I gave Helene, Frieda and Goldie to a friend, the President changed in our community and he aloud me to have chickens yeah now I have 3 Easter egger. They are still in the brooder got Heidi, Elfi and Yule hatched on February 14 2023.
I made a chicken run 10 ft x 10 ft and a small hen house my back yard is 70 ft x 50 ft
Perfect for chickens.
We have 2 cats and one dog. They fine with with chickens.
But even having my own house. People try to tell you what to do, is horrible! I don’t tell them what to do. So I hope that one neighbor stays out of my life.
Glad I got new neighbors on the other side and they totally fine with my chickens and we best friends
Little red laced bantam. So cute
I crush the shells up with paprika. It's great for them and it makes it's turn red. We all know how much our girls loves colors 💕
How fun! Colors are very interesting, they say!
She is soooo adorable
I am waiting for her new video😍
Great video!
my chickens love non gmo , organic chedder cheese.. some come in my lap for hugs and patting.
some dont. all indiviuals .they free range . hawks around . but like driving on the freeway you gotta live.
Your hen is amazing. I incubated and hatched my own fellow with patience, care and love! He is a month old now and he's adorable. He is funny and very playful. I can show you pictures of him if you want!
just found this video by randomly looking around and don't have any hen experience so perhaps my suggestion are really stupid for some reason, but to your question to have to make them enjoy the egg shell better. Perhaps you could do like I have done for plants and stuff which was to grind the egg shell in a mortel or something. It makes a fine white powder which I guess you could just mixed in with whatever else you are feeding her? It will be like a powder coating, or perhaps it could even be mixed in a mixer with water to make a shell infused type of drink that still just tastes as water. What does all you hen connoisseurs say? Is it Jay or Nei?
This is definitely the most common advice I've received! Be best thing someone told me was to dry it out in the microwave and then crush it.
@@renthehousehen Is there any way for you to tell by the color, thickness or brittleness of her egg shells if her diet lacks sufficient amounts of calcium?
I like how you set Karens and Kens straight 😊
I love your choice for pet
I have an indoor bantam frizzle rooster. I have a huge flock outside but this little guy is my buddy. I am trying many diapers and wondering where you get yours. I need the right style!
There are so many options! I have a RUclips playlist for chicken diapers or a list on my Medium account: renthehousehen.medium.com/
I have two Bantam ducks as pets, my family thinks I have lost my mind but I love them.
Ren, is so pretty.
My girl Cath is indoor at night. Her sister Kim just passed away from this terrible sickness and I had the her inside for the last month she loved it and I don't want Cath lonely. I love my animals chicken, rabbit and a wild rat I caught and could not kill so the Ratamus is in the cage he has a good time. Back to the chicken she loves being inside. Great vid.😂
I'm so sorry for your loss of Kim! ❤
i was thinking about keeping the chicken indoors but after seeing how crazy this all is im gonna have to re think this lol
Don't knock it 'til you try it! For me, it's decently low maintenance and chill to have indoor chickens (until they get sick with a mystery disease, which is something I'm dealing with right now)
Any suggestions for getting a chicken and keeping it indoors
I heard you can feed them beans and pasta and grind up oyster shells
Just came across your channel. Ren is so cute! I have a frizzle bantam rooster who lives in my house with me, and I love him. Looking forward to more of your vids!
How cute! Chickens make the best friends 💗
Thank you all i can say whatever makes you happy, so enjoy your chicken
Thank you so much 💖
where'd you get your diapers from? can't get my chick to wear diapers for anything, i clean up so many poops
I have an indoor chicken who is disabled. She does not like other chickens so I wouldn't put her out with the other chickens anyway. She suffered wry neck as a chick and we got it under control but I didn't realize she would need to stay on the vitamins forever. She relapsed with a vengeance a few weeks later, couldn't eat or drink on her own, walked back wards at high speed and her first 2 toes on her right foot point to the left now, broken id guess. She wasn't like this when we got her as a baby chick. She will be 2 years the beginning of May. She lays green eggs about every other day. She has her own area in the house and I take her outside to enjoy nice warm, sunny days. She is not a cuddly Chicken but when she's out and about will get up on the couch, place herself up against my leg and take a nap. And she talks to me or answers me when I talk to her.
If you are looking for rescue chickens, look for battery hens from poultry farms near you. They usually get rid of them anywhere from 12-18 months old for very cheap, $2-$6. They would still be laying at that age but I think would be great to rescue bc they've never been in the grass, haven't dust bathed, scratched for works and bugs and maybe never really been in the sun. They usually have to learn to do normal chicken things but those breeds are usually friendly even with the neglect of being shoved into cages with other hens, no room and little human contact.
Had an African Grey. Much messier.
Can you link the diaper, I have a pet chicken to and I always use handmade diapers...
does the vet insert the implant? I have a rescue 2 day old chick that Id love to make a house chicken. She is a very small chicken probably smaller than Ren. Its just so sad that we have made chickens lay so much.
yes, the vet does it!
Is it alright to raise a solo chicken? I want to get a house chicken but only if it's not bad for them to be the only one
It depends on the chicken! Ren didn't react when my other bird Mina died, and we enjoyed several months just her and I, just fine. As of 3 weeks ago, Ren has two new friends! They're all slowly becoming friends.
@Anita Morrison-Reich Looks like your reply got cut off!
Great info, thanks for sharing
Hiya, I just found your channel when searching chicken diapers which are really helpful.. thanks :)
Anyway, I decided to watch from the beginning because I think Ren is/was cute. I've only had chickens for a few months and love it. Mine are outside tho. If I didn't have indoor cats, other than my 6wk old rooster, I'd have his dad inside to give the girls a break. (Baby is being sold)
You mentioned in this one about making the shells more palatable..
I cook the eggs, shells and all and mix them with half cooked rice. If you add some diced cooked apple it sweetens it and the shells absorb the moisture. Just crush them really well.
You could also add a small handful of dry rolled oats lightly mixed. Mine go nuts over it. My rooster doesn't like eggs unless I make it tasty.
Also for an upset tummy or sour crop, or as I'm dealing with at the moment, vent gleet, try a mix of fully cooked rice and wheat soaked overnight with a teaspoon of natural unsweetened yoghurt per chicken and 2mls yakult probiotic.
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I have had turkeys, ducks and chickens outside. But deeply concerned about their waste inside.
The volume of poop is no joke! We use several methods to ensure the house is clean
Does she scream when you leave the house/room? and if so, how do you deal with it?
Ren does not but I have a new bird named Tina that will yell when I leave the room. It doesn't last very long. If this is a problem you're experiencing, I would offer treats while you're leaving so they are distracted as you exit.
Thanks so much for your content! I have indoor/outdoor hens (2). I haven’t found a diaper that works well. You mentioned FB and Instagram but I haven’t found the kind you have. Do you know the username of where you got them? Thanks!
The one she's wearing in this video is from Shannen Sews which is also available on Instagram and Etsy. The sizing however has changed since this was purchased, so be sure to review her size chart - she includes all the measurements and everything!
My current favorite are Peckingtons (also available on Etsy) but they are on hiatus until February.
This is so cute! I love ren! You said your looking for more chickens to add to your indoor flock, would you get any larger breeds like buff Orphington‘s, Rhode Island Reds, silkies, or Sussex? Or do you think you will stick so small Breeds like bantams?
Thank you!! I would definitely adopt other breeds of chicken, too!
I love this I would love to have my sweet babys in the house But 10 Ladys and 3 gentlemen wouldnt work to well ! But you have a heart of gold to keep your sweet lady with you most all the time ! I do have to ask since you have been around chickens can you still eat wings etc I can not ! A wonderful video can't wait until part 2 God Bless !
Thank you!! 💗I don't eat meat. This video is super old now so theres already a part 2 ready for you to watch 😊
@@renthehousehen Thank you
Hii love the video I am trying to train my black chicken to like wear a harness bc then I can pick her up with the handle she is a very calm sweet girl and very tame so love the vid I'm trying to train mine
I think it's ok to rescue a sick chicken and keep it inside for a bit, but chickens are very social animals and they usually live in groups. Where do you keep her, when you're not at home and does she have to sleep in a diaper? I guess it's a better life than factory farming for eggs and meat, but still not species appropriate.
Sure, it's unusual but perfectly appropriate for having all of their needs met. While Ren enjoyed being a solo chicken (because her and I are bonded), she does have two friends now 😊I work from home, so we spend a lot of time together. She wears a diaper when we sleep together.
What harm do you think is caused by living primarily indoors?
@@renthehousehen good to hear she has friends 😊I don’t think there’s any harm caused by living primarily indoors, though they should be allowed to be outside as well to be able to forage for seeds and insects, dust bathing ,interacting with their flock and so on. All their natural behaviors. If that’s the case I don’t see a problem. I’m only concerned that people who live in city apartments might see these videos and think it’s a good idea to keep one hen inside, possibly by itself while they’re at work, that would be sad.
@@Familiarspirits They're able to exhibit their natural behaviors indoor and outdoors 😊
I would hope no one keeps any animal at home alone all day, too! 🥲
@@Familiarspirits I agree with you! Chickens have a natural instinct and desire to scratch and forage outside they get micronutrients from the ground which are a necessary part of there diets.
Chickens are also social animals and like to roam in flocks of at least 3! At night chickens need a roosting stick not a pillow.
Also a diaper on a chicken long term could cause issues with the vent.
Also a chicken on contraception is ridiculous.
She should create an outdoor coop for the day time and bring her in at evening times at least.
That chicken needs sunlight and a stimulating environment.
I've heard of someone making the eggshells into powder. This may work for you. Love Ren.
I just recently ended up with a house chicken, she's 2 months old.. one of my hens hatched her out with 5 siblings.
She tends to get herself into trouble and need rescuing and so since I was the one to help her get unstuck from a pet pen panel at a month old, she seemed to imprint on me, she had been nervous around humans up until that point.
The following couple of weeks she started following me around outside and isolating herself from the other chickens in the barn.. she stopped eating even though the other chickens aren't mean to her at all.
She cries if she loses sight of me...
So she's in the house lol, not at all something I ever expected to happen.
She does have to stay in a cage/enclosure due to my other pets but she is happy as can be living this way.. it's very interesting lol.
Such a meaningful bond you have!