My Dog Eats Chicken Poo

[aart]

This is why I very rarely let dogs (butt licking turd eaters!) lick me, especially my face.
My pup is bummed since I put 1/2" hardware cloth along the bottom of the run walls, no more chicken poops for him!

 

[Flock Leader]

LOL. Our dog used to do it too. I never understood this (yuck!!!) but now I see it must be pretty common.

 

[TexasTransplant]

Yep my golden retriever is poo fixated too. I have to buy a special kitty litter box that he couldn't get his head into to eat the delicious little truffles our cat so kindly left for him. Out walking him on leash he would pretty much pull me over straining to get to any poop we passed and now we have chickens he follows them around waiting for them to go. It is pretty disgusting but I don't let my dog in my bed, on my furniture or lick my hands etc.

 

[gatrapper]

Our puppy was obsessed with chicken poop. I picked up a large bottle of hot sauce and some cayenne pepper at Wal-Mart. I went out and found chicken turds and covered them in the stuff. It only took him eating a few chicken turds to stop him from eating chicken poop.

 

[FlyWheel]

I heard dogs eat poo (sometimes even that of other dog's!) for the 'flora', or the colonic bacteria they need for proper digestion. Actually, we need it for digestion as well, however we tend to get it from other sources (like yogurt).

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I have the best dogs when it comes to chasing predatory creatures away from my flock. They hang out with my "girls"in the yard and seem to genuinely like being with them. One of them, a Bull terrier/Kelpie cross named Zoomer (best running companion, ever!), also sees his birds as living treat dispensers. I catch him in their night enclosure sneaking snacks. I see him out in the orchard grabbing a bite here and there. Granted, he makes my clean up job easier, but this can't possibly be healthy for him, right? I'm not sure there's a solution, since I want him out protecting the ladies, but maybe someone else has this problem and can share insight?? Btw...Zoomers kisses are shunned by the family now as he is aptly nicknamed "Mr. Poo-Breath."

You should rent him and a few of your hens out to the husbands and boy friends who are disgusted at their wives or girl friends letting their pooches lick their dinner plates clean before washing them. By about the second special chicken treat these women saw their dogs scarfing down these ladies would put a stop to Fido licking her dinner plates.

I am glad that you don't own any cows because then you will see firsthand what chickens consider "The breakfast of champions" Now tell me pray tell how many doggy treats do your hens eat, and do your eggs smell or taste like dogwood root.

 

[rosemarythyme]

To be honest I still kiss my dogs and let them kiss me, even with the poo eating. I'd kiss the chickens too but I'm not allowed. I'll kiss almost any animal, I always kissed my cockatiel and rats, but I'm a germaphobe when it comes to other humans lol!

 

[Nksg75]

Well my dogs not only eat the chicken, and Guinea pig poo, they go as far as licking it directly from the rears of both animals!!