Is Poop part of the circle of life.

[galanie]

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There are pathogens in dog poo that are not present in chicken poo that can make both us and the chickens sick. Besides which the three species digestive systems are different. A dog can digest nearly anything without being harmed, including bones. Not the same for the chickens and for us.

Poo is part of the cycle of life but I'll take the processed poo in the form of plant life, thank you. Aged chicken poo is the best fertilizer my garden ever had. Cat and dog poo, no. Not only because of the pathogens, but the plants themselves don't care for it.

To answer the op's question, yes. I have been composting the dogs poo along with the chicken poo. There are thousands of years of knowledge on the topic, even in the Bible. The natural cycle is that worms and bacteria eat the poo, not the animals. Any pathogens in poo, be it chicken, dog, human, pig are quickly killed with a good, aerobic, hot compost. I can get 160F for a few days after scooping out the doo from the coop. For a good reference, read the Humanure Handbook from Joseph Jenkins. Lots of crappy humour

and loaded with the science behind the stuff.

I should mention, not all poo is created equally

....it is very natural for the chickens to follow herbivores around and scratch out the maggots from that. Different poo altogether.

You are quite right. But we almost never have that good, hot, compost. I'd never make dog poo the "cycle of life" by putting it on my vegetable garden. But my point is, like you said so very well, "The natural cycle is that worms and bacteria eat the poo, not the animals."

 

[Ole rooster]

Chocolate colored eggs, that funny.

But my dog, he know's he better not be eating poop of any kind. I wash his mouth out with acid when he does. He don't care for all the smoke coming out of his mouth. I imagine it burns too.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

since I just got 3 puppies I have not a speck of chicken poop on the poarch, and until the puppies can go further away to poop their piles are scratched out and the rain washes them away faster, win win. I like this food chain thing...and my husband says he finally understands what the roosters are saying now, it's not bok bok, its bug bug bug and oppoop poop poop

 

[brahmakid11]

yucky

 

[PressOn]

I just got to ask, were the eggs chocolate colored?

Nope they were regular brown eggs.

I know dog people who compost the dog poo and use it on their flower gardens. They have gorgeous flowers. My comfrey plants love dog poo and the ones who get fed dog doodies daily are 5 times the size of the ones who don't.

I think that I will feed the poop to the trash and be excited about shorter marigolds.

I have been composting the dogs poo along with the chicken poo. There are thousands of years of knowledge on the topic, even in the Bible.

Not to bible bash but; To the best of my knowledge Exodus was not about waist being freed from the gestural intestinal tract. Poop must have been part of Song of Solomon, nothing surprises me from that book.​

 

[mickeymousears]

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I'd have to say the chicken poo isn't good for the dog either for the same reason

I know dogs can handle some pretty nasty stuff- but that doesn't mean its good for them. I'm no expert in chicken parsites but I'm going to play it safe and assume they carry types of round worms-well any intestinal worm or bacteria that can survive in dogs and make the dog sick. If your dog is already on a limited diet for health concerns I would count that as doubly bad. And sick doesn't mean vomiting or diarrhea necessarily some parasites can last a long time undetected.

 

[colebarnhart]

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[mickeymousears]

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Uhm I'm going to assume that's a joke- a sick not funny joke.

I worked in vet clinics for years and nothing surprises me anymore!

 

[Ole rooster]

Strange thing.....nothing has suprised me about vet clinics either. Some don't know a snake bit from an allergy. Some think a bad hip is a broken leg. So that deal goes both ways. Some want $1200 for an overnight "oberservation" that would mean put it in a kennel and if it lives it was ok. So that means I don't trust you and the vet clinics either.

I had a young stallion die when my vet at the time said he was just not used to Georgia and may have eaten oak leaves. They made him hurt, he said. After 3 days of the vets BS, the fold layed down in his stall and spun himself in circles all night with his front legs from the pain. He had dug a trench from his pawing and spinning. I had just brought him home from Oklahoma two weeks before. Guess what, he dies from a ruptured gut from worms in his heart that blocked all blood flow to the intestines. The University of Georgia Vet School cut him open and found that. His intestines rotted from lack of blood. I had to demand that idiot "vet" worm my fold, before I took him to the school, even though he was sick. I was trying to save my folds life and the vet was afraid of his shadow. You would not believe what came out of horse when he did finally worm him, but it was to late. Handfulls of worms, large and small. So don't start in on me and preach sancity of a vet. They are idiots that play guessing games. The animal can't tell what wrong and the vet don't know. They guess. I had 2 horses die I trusted to a vet. Both times they diagnosed wrong. No, I don't trust vets. Both times the horse dies. What I got was a vet bill, all the horses expenses, and I got to bury them. All but the UGA vet school. They called and told me the fee had been charged off to research. I didn't owe them anything. They started working on my fold at 11:00 at night and stay at it till 3:00 in the morning. The head of the school and senior students did the work.
For your information I may just have the best mannered, best cared for dog on this site. Or any site for that matter. No I don't carry him around in a basket, and I don't dress him up with bows and such. He is allowed to be a dog, up to the manure thing. He kills possum for me, moles, and any other critter I tell him don't belong here. And I don't doubt for one second that dog wouldn't give his life up if anything ever went at me. He won't stand for it.


So take the post for what it is.

 

[chickchicks]

id say its very difficult to get your dog to poo in one area. mine used to have a specific spot untill the chickens came and he saw that they didit anywhere they wanted and he started to do the same ! mine now waits for the chickens to do there busines runs over eats there poo and then poos in that spot !!!! its mayhem