Do you all keep a pair of 'coop only shoes'?

[ChickyCh00k]

My chickens will attack my toes!

 

[raingarden]

I have one pair of Crocs that are worn all day every day. It doesn't matter whether I'm feeding chickens or going to the doctor's office, they all see the same pair.
Replace about every six months.

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

If it's above 40 and there isn't snow I go barefoot

Same, but then go clean my feet off with the hose. Unless I can find my crocs, then I wear those but most of the time i don't know where they are.

 

[MeanCheek]

Same, but then go clean my feet off with the hose. Unless I can find my crocs, then I wear those but most of the time i don't know where they are.

Yeah, it's kind of a chore to find shoes when I need to go somewhere!

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Yeah, it's kind of a chore to find shoes when I need to go somewhere!

Every. Time.

 

[CaliforniaMountainChicks]

Same, but then go clean my feet off with the hose. Unless I can find my crocs, then I wear those but most of the time i don't know where they are.

I could never go barefoot to my chickens! My coop is 100 feet away from the house and to get there I'd have to walk through goat heads, pine needles and sharp pine cone pieces. It would be like walking in a minefield lol. No soft grass to walk on in the high desert mountains!

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

I could never go barefoot to my chickens! My coop is 100 feet away from the house and to get there I'd have to walk through goat heads, pine needles and sharp pine cone pieces. It would be like walking in a minefield lol. No soft grass to walk on in the high desert mountains!

I've built up callouses on my feet so they can withstand gravel! but the worst thing is sandspurs in summer!

 

[3KillerBs]

I *should*, but I can't currently afford another pair of muck boots and I have chickens housed in multiple places around the yard.

I wear my muck boots for all messy yard chores and in the chicken coop. They live on a boot tray just inside the door.

I never keep shoes, gloves, etc. outside because I once put my hand into a garden glove that was stored on a shelf outdoors with the tools and found a wasp setting up house in one of the fingers.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I *should*, but I can't currently afford another pair of muck boots and I have chickens housed in multiple places around the yard.

I wear my muck boots for all messy yard chores and in the chicken coop. They live on a boot tray just inside the door.

I never keep shoes, gloves, etc. outside because I once put my hand into a garden glove that was stored on a shelf outdoors with the tools and found a wasp setting up house in one of the fingers.

I had the same thing happen only it was a giant spider. I put my hand in the glove, felt the squish and pulled my hand out to see a nice fat gooey spider on my finger Never will I ever keep anything I wear outside again!

 

[BarnyardChaos]

The boys wear cheap knockoff crocs, but I have a nice pair of chicken clogs from TSC
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Once the snow comes, we will probably get cheap boots for the same purpose.

I have those, too! Yep, only outside. We have a couple of bottle calves, three chicken coops and a garden - and these are my go-to outdoor shoes if it's not too muddy in the calves' pen. I wear them in other areas besides in the coop/run, but they don't leave the property and they don't come inside. I have a half-dozen other choices of barn/yard shoes for visitors, and they are required to change into them if they visit the chicken pen. I explain that it's messy and poopy in there, and they don't want to mess up their nice shoes. Never an argument.