- Sep 19, 2012
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Hi all
I have a flock of 27 chickens, free ranging. We LOVE the eggs...only about 7 of my girls are laying but...within a month or so...oh boy!
Anyway. With a free range flock, how the HECK do you keep all of the ...poop! out of the house? I do have "chicken shoes" that I wear whenever I go out to the coop to get eggs, clean, or "play" with the girls. As our coop is...right there...not far from the house (I know, problem #1...but, winter in Maine having to plow and go far from the house every morning...in the driving snow?...no) so I use these shoes many times going outside if I'm going near the coop area. I demand that shoes are off right at the door...and my chicken shoes don't come past the door frame.
BUT...as the girls go where they will...they get their...stuff...everywhere they go. Including my front steps! We try to keep these steps washed off but...anyway. The mud room is a mess! we sweep it, wash it, and work hard to keep that mud room stuff from making it into the kitchen but, it still does. Now, don't get me wrong. It's not like there's poopy all over our kitchen...just that some dried stuff makes it past that mud room door.
Thanks for any help.
I have a flock of 27 chickens, free ranging. We LOVE the eggs...only about 7 of my girls are laying but...within a month or so...oh boy!
Anyway. With a free range flock, how the HECK do you keep all of the ...poop! out of the house? I do have "chicken shoes" that I wear whenever I go out to the coop to get eggs, clean, or "play" with the girls. As our coop is...right there...not far from the house (I know, problem #1...but, winter in Maine having to plow and go far from the house every morning...in the driving snow?...no) so I use these shoes many times going outside if I'm going near the coop area. I demand that shoes are off right at the door...and my chicken shoes don't come past the door frame.
BUT...as the girls go where they will...they get their...stuff...everywhere they go. Including my front steps! We try to keep these steps washed off but...anyway. The mud room is a mess! we sweep it, wash it, and work hard to keep that mud room stuff from making it into the kitchen but, it still does. Now, don't get me wrong. It's not like there's poopy all over our kitchen...just that some dried stuff makes it past that mud room door.
Thanks for any help.