I'm the queen of poop mountain!

[MrsMcnugget]

I haven't been interacting on BYC like I intended when I joined. Instead, I search for answers to questions and seek out silent support for any chicken issues which may pop up.

But as winter drags on, and my one-sided chicken conversations dangle on the edge of sanity, between reverence and obsession, I wonder if I am suffering from some sort of chicken keeping induced psychosis.

In other words; perhaps I'm not getting enough human interaction? So, here I am, on what is probably one of the least human-y forms of interacting... Forums.

I wanted to ask this question: Does anyone else go around picking up chicken poop all day, every day? Or, is this just some severe personal, obsessive flaw I have?

I only have three chickens, which I'm very surprised chicken math hasn't over taken me yet, and I pick up all poo from their tiny coop and run, as well as the driveway, patio, garage and yard if I see it. Some days I tell myself, "Not on this day! Today I will only pick up the coop!" But then I begin to feel very guilty and run around chasing poo!

As if chickens weren't bad enough, I am the pooper scooper for all cat and dog poops as well. Ugh... I feel like my life is all poop right now. It could be the crappy weather, fewer hours of sun or my meds aren't working any more... Or all of the above.

Can anyone relate to anything I'm saying here? Or am I just a but?

 

[FishMtFarm]

Yup, you officially have gone crazy! Lol

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Yay!!! Chicken Flock Crazy!! hehehehe

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Great post...hope we see you more around here.....

I use deep litter so there is no picking of poo from the run, I deep bed the coop so that also means no poo picking there. I clean the poop board they few days. When they range I just hose the sidewalk and patio after I put them up....the poo I the grass is left, unless the dog finds it she views the chickens as her own personal treat dispensers.

The cats and dogs, though, I'm definitely their personal poop valets....and whrn we had our horses we actually had Mt Vapoopious.....

 

[rebrascora]

Your sanity is definitely on a knife edge. Perhaps allowing "Chicken Maths" to get a hold would cure you of your poop obsession (or tip you over the edge!!). If you had more chickens it would become physically impossible to pick all the poop and then you would either lose the plot or accept that a poop free environment is not necessary or natural.

 

[Kiki]

I pick up poop daily too, but not chicken poop only dog poop.
SO..I think you might be a little bit more on the crazy side than I am.

 

[lazy gardener]

Chicken poo: gets scraped off my boots before I come in. well... most of it. I have to kick the frozen dog poo to loosen it up where it is frozen to the paths so i can scoop it. DL in coop and run. No scooping there. So far, I've been blessed in that the perches are not bad.

 

[pamelajean]

Love this thread. How many times can the work poop be used in one thread.
One of the worst things about winter - if I miss cleaning up after the dog and the poop gets snowed on I go a little bananas (only in my head). Melted snow poop in the spring is the worst.
My birds (ducks) - I clean up in their coop once per week - but only heavily soiled areas. But I do use deep litter so some of it stays. In the summer I hose down poop on the grass and only pick up the more solid piles and chuck them in the garden.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Yup it's official, you've flown over the chicken coop ,sorry there's no cure

 

[21hens-incharge]

Totally OCD!!

I pick up the dogs poop daily....multiple times a day.

Chicken poop is as needed.