Dumb dog won't stop eating chicken poop!

[karlamaria]

My dogs love it to, but I refuse to allow it, it's just gross. My dogs go potty out the front door and the chickens are out back. I'm planning a dog kennel on the grass with a dark top on top for shade, no way do I want my pets eating poop! The dog pen I have and will put up is a 10x 10 so big and roomy, and my dogs are tiny.

 

[Beekissed]

So I guess it's nice to know I'm not alone in this - since I was mortified to realize what my dog was doing. And I guess I get it - it's normal. but...but... IT'S JUST SO GROSS!! I'm a bit in *shock* at those who consider it a help for the dog to keep the chicken poop licked clean. LOL I mean, come on - my pooch comes in after doing that AND LICKS MY TODDLER'S FACE!!

Y.U.C.K. lol I'm sad to hear there were no suggestions about breaking them of eating it. lol But I will say we did break our dog from her habit of rolling in the poop. She did it 4 days in a row and every time my hubby gave her a VERY unwelcome and very cold bath with the hose. She finally put 2 and 2 together and never did it again.

Hold the phone a minute...you let your dog lick your toddler's face~knowing they also lick their own genitals and butts~but you freak over the dog eating chicken poop and THEN licking the toddler's face? Dog's have the ability to transmit their intestinal parasites to your toddler in just that way, so I can't imagine why that wouldn't gross you out but the thought of chicken poop also being in that dog's toddler wet wipe would!

Solution~don't let the dog lick your toddler(or any human, for that matter) in the face. Much easier to train a dog to stop doing that than it is to train them to stop hoovering up any stray, weird things in the yard when your back is turned.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

True so true, not only parasites but viruses that will put you in the er, haha. Besides the things we think are gross are super duper yummy to a dog. They can lick the bottom of my shoe anytime!

 

[karlamaria]

Othing cool about a dog eating crap and getting diarrhea . At least for my dogs any ways. It's gross, and ain't going to happen lol, my dogs love to find my crocs after being in the coop, I now hang them on arack so o way to et to them.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Each to his own, I doubt I could stop my dogs from eating poo or bugs short of locking them in a sterile environment they'd still lick their butts. They haven't gotten sick from so i say - go for it. I'm just not a germaphobe.

 

[AmyLM]

Mine too. *sigh* Mines gotten so bad that he will go and turn over all of my shoes and lick them clean after ive been in the hen house... *gags!!!* then of couse he wants to lick ME.

Glad mines not the only wierdo....

 

[mstricer]

Be glad its just chicken poo. I have an automatic cat box cleaner.

 

[chickenpooplady]

My dog Cody does the same thing. He follows the chickens around and then as soon as they poop he licks it up like it is a treat. It is really nasty. The worst is when Cody tries to lick my face. I have no idea what to do about it. Cody is a weirdo. He has never gone after a chicken, he only wants their poop.

 

[GardenerGal]

"Poop. It's what's for dinner (if you're a dog)." -- Slogan of the National Chickenpoop Association

"One man's chickenpoop is another dog's dinner." -- Ancient Proverb

Anyone who has owned a dog and had a backyard, knows that dogs love, love, love to eat, chew, or roll in anything that smells intriguing. Maybe the eating of poop has to do with sensing (maybe through scent) that there are nutrients in it -- not for the chicken, but for other animals who can use the nutrients that the chicken didn't need or use, and pooped out. Soil organisms extract nutrients from poop and break it down into soil. Maybe larger animals also get some benefit from the poop, in some way. as well.

Stopping dogs from eating poop is not likely something you can train into the dog. It may have to come down to keeping the chickens in a run, or the dog on a tether, or constantly hunting down and cleaning up the poop before poop-eating pooch gets to it.

 

[Beekissed]

Or...you could make sure your birds are utilizing their feeds in such a way that they have little feed/protein in their stool to attract the dog and very little smells in which to roll. I've noticed that since I've been feeding fermented feeds that there is virtually no smell to these chickens'(Cornish Cross)droppings and the dog isn't even giving them a second look....before that I never stepped in a chicken turd for the past 6 years because this same dog and his mate kept them hoovered up. Now there are huge piles of poo where the dog lives and I'm stepping on chicken poop all the time.

Something has changed to make them unattractive to the mutt and the only thing I'm doing different is fermenting the feed. The dog will still eat all the deer poop he finds, will roll in dead and rotten squirrels and eat them, but he seems to have lost his appetite for chicken droppings. Go figure!