Raising chickens

[nslay]

I really just want them because I have an interest in them, they are beautiful, and they lay eggs.

Ah, I see. It sounded like you wanted one for a pet.

Cats and other pets can pick up a lot of parasites and diseases as well. As long as they don't transfer to humans, it's not so bad. But I guess if they can't be house trained, they're not going to be much good to have inside.

I've found that if people have birds in their house, it's usually a duck or something like that.  Those aren't house trainable either but you can put a plastic bag on them to act like a diaper.  Here is a picture of a pekin indoors and one with a plastic bag on:




Funny enough here are pictorial instructions to put a diaper on a duck:
(art by Hatsu the owner)


Pekins:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/Pekins/BRKPekin.html