no more barefooting?

[Autumn Mama]

We go bare foot, kids and I all day, not Dh so much.
We're healthy so far, but chook keeping is new to us this year. I wear shoes in the coop at times, Crocs, or sandals, and wash my feet once I get inside. So, technically, there is probably poop on my kitchen floor in minute quantities!!! But I wash it down each morning early (takes like 10 minutes, and stretches and limbers up my spine at the same time!), so it is cleaned very regularly.

You bet you would develop natural immunity to what you come in contact with! I would worry far more about encountering resistant bacteria and what-not in a hospital, than on a farm or a well-managed chicken coop. Just my .O2 cents! I guess each has to determine their own comfort level with risk, but, it seems the risk is pretty low...

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Here is my two cents worth.

My dears if the human race were that delicate, we would never have made it as a species and would have perished long ago.

Just use common sense and keep yourself and your animals clean. I believe in keeping my animals food and water as clean as possible. That could be an area of great concern.

 

[Uzuri]

Frankly, the chicken leavings are the least of your worries

If you let them go barefoot before and your chickens are healthy, then they're unlikely to run into any more germs than the wild birds and animals put out there already.

But just for the "Ick, slimy" side of things... yeah, invest in a footbath.

 

[SimplyForties]

There's a whole thread on here somewhere about people going barefoot in the chicken coop. Clearly the way you deal with it is up to you. I'd be more worried about kids tracking chicken poop in the house as opposed to any illness the chicken poop might transmit to them.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Our kids just called it "squishy dirt" , never bothered them. It's kind of funny now though, the grandkids can't go with birds without shoes.

That and they feed them "packaged stuff"...... shudder shudder - the times they are a changing.

Steve in NC