Dumb dog won't stop eating chicken poop!

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I am setting up to ferment my feeds, but, oh no! Does this mean I have to scrub my chickens poop now!!! Just kidding, we are working on the railings now and there's only one hen that likes to visit the poarch , I am really looking forward to this project, the feed, not the poop scrubbing.
PS, course if i point it out to Max and tell him to eat it, I'm sure he will.

 

[Beekissed]

Funny thing...my dog is a confirmed chicken poop eater but since I've been feeding fermented feeds, he doesn't even give them a second look. I think now, with feeding the FF, there is less corn/grain waste in the feces and that was what my dogs were after. Now I have poop everywhere!

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Hope it rains soon! Max though will eat anything I tell him to, apples, banannas, grapes, a stick, a bug, an orange peel, regardless of its nutritional content, he will just have to step up to the plate!!
Yes, he has eaten a few rocks too,clay rocks. He's my shop vac.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Now, I'm thinking, this winter I kept a bag of scratch inside so i could just toss it outside, naturally the dogs got into it and gobbled as much as they could, they vomited it up, three huge piles in the sun poarch, oh great, I had to turn away to collect myself and put together a cleaning kit, but by the time I did that, they had already re-eaten it! Mostly cracked corn came up, and isn't that a filler product in most dog foods? Maybe it was the amount, or that corn isn't easy to digest in the first place...at least they cleaned it up for me...good doggies..now out. If i could cut my dog food I can get an auto door for the coop......hmmmmm

 

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[echosrevenge]

Now, I'm thinking, this winter I kept a bag of scratch inside so i could just toss it outside, naturally the dogs got into it and gobbled as much as they could, they vomited it up, three huge piles in the sun poarch, oh great, I had to turn away to collect myself and put together a cleaning kit, but by the time I did that, they had already re-eaten it! Mostly cracked corn came up, and isn't that a filler product in most dog foods? Maybe it was the amount, or that corn isn't easy to digest in the first place...at least they cleaned it up for me...good doggies..now out. If i could cut my dog food I can get an auto door for the coop......hmmmmm

Yes, many dog foods use some form of corn (often the "meal" left over from making high-fructose corn syrup) as a filler ingredient or a binder. Dogs can't digest it AT ALL - the only part of the corn kernel they can digest is the germ, which contains the DNA...the only protien in the corn, and about .2% of the weight of the kernel. The rest just....passes on through, pretty well unchanged. A dog's digestive tract is only about 8' long, which is just not long enough to extract nutrition from complex carbohydrates and sugars in grains and grasses...but is plenty of time to get 'the good stuff' out of some helpfully predigested chicken turds! Interestingly, the short length of their digestive tract also contributes to why healthy dogs don't get salmonella/e coli/food poisoning - the food is through and gone so fast that any pathogens don't have a chance to build up a dangerous population. High acid (much more acidic than human digestive juices) and a body temperature well over 100 degrees helps with this too.

Dogs have evolved over millions of years to safely eat ALL KINDS of things that people can't. It's part of what made them such a good species to domesticate in the first place - they don't compete with us for food, but instead eat things that would be refused or even make us sick.

 

[PilotChick]

Guess I'm not sure if I feel better or not, but my boy (in the avatar pic) is a big time chicken poop eater-- LOVES to follow my three ladies and eat their tasty little droplets of goodness that they leave behind them. I was digusted at first, but when the deck is clean of chicken poo, it's hard to complain!

 

[Rebel]

I walked around the yard covering chicken poop with cayenne pepper...our lab came in drooling and headed straight for the water which I picked up. I made him wait for 2 hrs. to drink. Just an inconvience to him. I can always tell when he has been at "it" because he comes in drooling....his brother, a miniature poodle ,
on the other hands loves hot stuff. I know this can't be good for them but after a year of trying I give up...it is just a waste of good cayenne pepper!

 

[staceymbent]

Chicken very poop is very high in nitrates which is very hard on a dogs liver. So you dont want them to eat it at all. My ex-husband is a practicing Veterinarian with a PhD in Medician and a Masters in Zoology and a Masters in Body Chemestry Research and he is in the Mensa society.

 

[Hinotori]

Wild and domestic canines eat poop. Don't worry about it.

The only concern would be if you wormed the birds with Ivermectin and the dog had the MDR1 mutation.

None of the vets I've asked about it have been concerned other than recommending regular worm checks, though that was more for them eating rodents.