Cleaning yard before setting up coop

[redinator]

I'm just getting started w chickens and I'm getting ready to set up an area for their coop, run and enclosure. I also have two dogs that use the yard as their toilet. I pick up poop regularly and my dogs get their annual vaccines and worm checks. I'm just wondering if there's anything I can/should threat the new chicken area with to ensure the chicks don't get sick from eating off the ground.

 

[aart]

I'm just getting started w chickens and I'm getting ready to set up an area for their coop, run and enclosure. I also have two dogs that use the yard as their toilet. I pick up poop regularly and my dogs get their annual vaccines and worm checks. I'm just wondering if there's anything I can/should threat the new chicken area with to ensure the chicks don't get sick from eating off the ground.

Nah!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Nah!

 

[redinator]

Nah!

I love less work, lol.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Go ahead and clean, but I guarantee the chickens will scratch up all kinds of treasures, i.e., old batteries, broken glass, nuts and bolts and even car parts. Quite the Archeologists.

 

[redinator]

Go ahead and clean, but I guarantee the chickens will scratch up all kinds of treasures, i.e., old batteries, broken glass, nuts and bolts and even car parts. Quite the Archeologists.

I'm starting them in an area I plan to put a garden in later. So this is great that they can do all the tilling, cultivating, pest control and fertilizing, lol. They'll defiantly earn their keep and get rewarded w greens and scrapes from the garden when it's finished. It's separate from our main yard so when they get moved they won't be able to tear it out and my dogs won't be able to dig in it either.

 

[rosemarythyme]

For the most part the dogs can't get what the chickens can get and vice versa. So since the dogs are in good health I can't think of a specific concern with the chickens being where the dogs had been.

Also not to be gross, but if they can, they will try to drink dog pee, don't ask how I know this.

 

[redinator]

For the most part the dogs can't get what the chickens can get and vice versa. So since the dogs are in good health I can't think of a specific concern with the chickens being where the dogs had been.

Also not to be gross, but if they can, they will try to drink dog pee, don't ask how I know this.

Fighting the urge to ask, lol . . . .

 

[paintedChix]

Go ahead and clean, but I guarantee the chickens will scratch up all kinds of treasures, i.e., old batteries, broken glass, nuts and bolts and even car parts. Quite the Archeologists.

So true!!

 

[avjudge]

Also not to be gross, but if they can, they will try to drink dog pee, don't ask how I know this.

Well turnabout is fair play, since I can pretty much guarantee the dogs will also try to eat the chicken poop!