I decided that because those stories behind keeping house chickens are interesting I would post them in a series specifically on House Chickens. I reached out to members of the Facebook group Huggable House Chickens And Ducks to share some of their experiences and found I had more material than I could use for just one post.
Sometimes the owners themselves have physical limitations so keeping a small number of chickens indoors as pets is easier than maintaining an outdoor coop. Some birds are low in the pecking order and get bullied some came into the house during quarantine or illness and never returned to a flock, while others have a disability like blindness or mobility issues. The reasons for having house chickens seem to run the gamut as well. Their experiences seem to vary widely from having just one bird to a whole flock from keeping birds predominantly outside while allowing them to come in for visits to chickens who have lived their whole lives never having touched the ground.
I belong to a number of online chicken groups and folks often post about their indoor birds. Occasionally I’ve brought a sick or injured bird inside while they were recuperating, but that’s the extent of my experience.
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