Perhaps your mother has never told you, so let me tell you in case you did not know: raising chicks in your house creates very bad indoor air.
My poor husband Sander has an office next to the porch room where the chicks were living and he has lung problems. It's a bad combination.
Researchers are concerned about indoor air. The air in most of our homes is of poorer quality than the air in Los Angeles on bad days. That's not good. Fumes seep from glues in particle board and other manufactured lumber. Vinyl floors and carpet fibers emit fumes. Carpet glue and carpet pads emit fumes. Animal dander irritates our skin and our respiratory system. All of these irritants must be processed by our body and filtered out. That filtration system requires nutrients.
Chick dander doesn't make the list of scientific studies because most people put the chicks outside in a chicken coop. That's a real good idea. I am not sure how much B-6 or B-12 I've burned through with this chicken dander, but the chicks are moved out now into their permanent home. They will be a bit cold, but Sander will breathe a whole lot better and the house already smells a lot less rangy.
