I'm the queen of poop mountain!

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I sure hope you participate on the forums more! We don't bite, really truly... well, maybe except Kiki. :gig

I don't scoop poop, but then again I don't have anything even remotely resembling a manicured lawn, path, or deck; and my driveway is sand. The coop is 12 x 12 and sort of a psuedo deep litter, which absorbs droppings quickly. They are free range in summer, and this time of year they have the door open but they don't go out much. The dog keeps the chooks far far away from the porch otherwise I'd have to run out there in a temper several times a day to keep the blasted birdies off.

Agree that you need more chickens. Seeing as I have anywhere from 30 to 50 birds at any given moment poop scooping would be impossible.
 
Ol Grey Mare said:
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 :sick 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.....
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Hahahaha!! I love Mt Vapoopious! My dog also views the chickens as lucky treat dispensers. Blaughkk!

I want to do the deep litter method, but I'm not sure it would be possible with the coop I have now. This thing is more like a prefab rabbit hutch, but was marketed for chickens as well. It's so small that they only have room really to sleep and nest. I wasn't given a say in the coop unfortunately, I'm just the one who has to look after and care for my chickens.

My parents bought the coop before we planned on having more than one chicken, and before we knew what we were doing. They bought one quickly because of our unique situation. We were forced into rescuing a stray chicken...by the stray chicken. She showed up one day all messed up and decided she liked us better than the other people, or at least she liked us better than her flock that beat her up and kicked her out. So, the coop was a rush decision. Then we got our stray a friend because we thought she was sad. Then we got another friend, that the first two don't really like, so I've got all kinds of dysfunction happening.

Back to the coop... The two hens sleep in the tiny coop comfortably, but there is no perch, so, they're forced to sleep on the litter. That's the main reason why I'm so obsessive about the poop in the coop. I figure its the most decent thing I can do for them until we have a better coop/run set up going. Hopefully by the spring, before summer.

We need to move the run and coop anyway as it gets too wet, the run, the coop stays dry.

Thank you so much for the info! I'm happy to have any advice I can get
 
BantyChooks said:
I sure hope you participate on the forums more! We don't bite, really truly... well, maybe except Kiki. :gig

I don't scoop poop, but then again I don't have anything even remotely resembling a manicured lawn, path, or deck; and my driveway is sand. The coop is 12 x 12 and sort of a psuedo deep litter, which absorbs droppings quickly. They are free range in summer, and this time of year they have the door open but they don't go out much. The dog keeps the chooks far far away from the porch otherwise I'd have to run out there in a temper several times a day to keep the blasted birdies off.

Agree that you need more chickens. Seeing as I have anywhere from 30 to 50 birds at any given moment poop scooping would be impossible.
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Lol! Yeah, I'd say more chickens would help me get over my obsessive compulsive pooper scooping. Nothing's really manicured around here, but I'm worried that the UPS man will drop our packages in poop. Plus, it's nice for my son to have a bit of unpooped on surfaces if he wanted to play lol.

I tried to keep the chickens off the porch, but they're sort of jerks most of the time, and my barred rock chases my cats and my poor old lab is so out of it she poops on the patio too sometimes!

The chickens are out on most days. Unless it's pouring rain, snow or super windy, they can't bear to be confined. They scream like they're in the middle of being axe murdered by somebody. They're very dramatic and rotten little things! Lol
 
MrsMcnugget said:
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?
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I pick up the chicken poop every day too :oops:
 
Oh yes, I’m your twin. Back before I ever got chickens, I was “poop scooper extraordinaire” for our seven dogs, seven LARGE dogs! Need I explain? There is no one who can place “pieces” on the pooper scooper in such an orderly fashion only to be able to get to just one more pile better than me. Uh, yup, I could win that contest, fo sho! And lawd have mercy, once the leaves start falling I go absolutely nuts. The poop is there, you just aren’t sure where...little land mines just waiting for someone to step on them.
Once I got chickens I then became obsessed with the little piles as well; some firm and then some not so firm (oh my word that $#!+ stinks). Everywhere, they do not discriminate. They don’t have that “sweet spot” in the yard to always visit, and spin around like a tiny tornado before they squat and deliver. Nope, they leave presents in just the right spots...right where your feet will plant as you’re walking to your car, or to the barn, or to the ..., save those very few “el stinkos” that the dogs take care of for me. Oh yeah, those dogs help me some. I’m just thankful they don’t help with their own! OMG am I ever so thankful.
So, to end this bit of miserable OCD confession, I will conclude by saying, “I’m glad to have a twin, @MrsMcnugget!”
 

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