Chicken Shoes!

[room onthebroom]

good to see you room mine looks messier but have a caregiver come in 3 times a week and cleans

Hi Penny. Please send her my way when she's done at your place!

 

[room onthebroom]

I would also highly suggest one of these shoe brushes. I have another one at the farm that I hate. But this one at home is great because its flat. Stand on it on one foot, brush the other foot. Doesn't scoot out from under you that way. It's easy to hose out when it gets muddy/poopy buildup but the rain keeps it fairly well clear.
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Ooooooooh! I want that!!!

 

[tigger19687]

FYI, I got mine at Ocean State job lot for like $6 ? I think.

You better go look now before Winter is over. I NEVER find them out of that season unless I am at TSC and it is different and like $24

 

[pennyJo1960]

morning gang they said our rain is back, has not hit yet but back to black boots

 

[orrpeople]

I feel a little late to the party & yikes, this is embarrassing, but here's my front porch.
It actually gets worse than this, because usually there's feathers & chicken/duck poop on it too. Picture an additional 4 pair of rain boots out there in the rainy season. The kids pickup the poop everyday, but the chickens just keep ploppin'em out, so we have to keep a stiff brush out there for the indoor shoes.
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Love it! That's how a productive house's front porch should look!
Did you all even get to have a rainy season this year? Ours has been super minimal...

 

[tigger19687]

I was hoping that I would be able to keep shoes outside on the deck soon .

Seems Winter decided to come back so that is all on hold

 

[pennyJo1960]

If we put our on the deck crazy white dog gets them ... just inside the sliding door
they have their own rug to live on

 

[room onthebroom]

Love it! That's how a productive house's front porch should look!
Did you all even get to have a rainy season this year? Ours has been super minimal...

So far, pretty minimal here too. There's only one pair of rain boots out so far & those are in a boot tray in the house to hopefully keep the black widows & wolf spiders out of them. Its lightly raining today & we usually get a marine layer that comes in at night. Last year we were flooding. Luckily it didn't get into the house, but the garage was like a little running brook & under the house (enclosed by drywall, but dirt floor) was like a stagnant cesspool. We keep a lot of storage in both of those places & it took the downstairs forever to dry out. I had to keep reminding myself that this was nothing & others were getting it 1,000x worse. Perspective! Perspective! Perspective!

 

[pennyJo1960]

We actually have allot warmer day than I was thinking we went to Costco then walmart did our monthly shopping meat has been re packaged and all in the freezer

 

[rehsanipoor]

@Joeschooks Was looking for shoe ideas and laughed when I saw somebody else beat me to this thread.. I was going to start one. We are new to chickens and the mud is driving me crazy. What kind of chips did you put down? Maybe this would be cheaper than pavers and easier than pallets.