Poop management

[cpwhip]

build your dogs a potty patch and train them to use it.

 

[Ole rooster]

I would treat cleaning the back yard just as I would with cleaning the kitchen, bath room, or even making the bed in the morning. After each meal you wash dishes. You do all this on a regular routine so do the same with the yard. You don't want a dirty living room or tv room, and the pets you have don't won't one either. The problem some of us have is we think our pets are people. Not so. They don't have the same value system or habits we do. I've never seen one trained to use the commode. But take um outside and show um where the leaves are, and they're in "pig heaven".

But that's just me.

 

[laurie9503]

much easier on a daily basis than to wait and make the job big. there must be tons of bacteria and disease in that poop area waiting to sicken your animals out there.

 

[chickens? not yet]

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This is how we do it, we live on an arce, we have 4 dogs,3 small & one large dog. Once a week does it for our yard.

 

[cpwhip]

I have never poop scooped I run over it with the lawn mower it gets chopped up and the rain washes it into the ground. I have 4 dogs

 

[MuckyPuppy]

Instead of washing the doggy poo away, mowing it into bits, throwing it over the fence or composting it, I personally would just scoop and throw away into the garbage or dog waste composter for the following reasons.....

Dog poo can/has contaminated/polluted water (streams and lakes) and carry 23 million bacteria (per gram) and is one of the most common carriers of heartworms, hookworms, roundworms (can cause blindness to children and can live for years in the ground), tapeworms, whipworms, campylobacter, giardia, parvo, salmonella and etc. It also can take a year or more for a pile of dog poo to fully decompose.

but that is just me.

 

[MuckyPuppy]

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1. It is very brave of you to ask for advice.

2. I think it is a really good idea (from the others on here) to try and train the dogs only to go in one area. That way you won't have to try and get it out of the grass and it will be a really quick once a day job even in winter/rain.

 

[Xtina]

I always pick up poop on walks. I know it's a double standard. And my main concern besides a smelly, inhospitable yard is the bacteria contamination in the watershed so my solution isn't going to involve throwing it over the fence, water blasting it away, or spreading it everywhere in the lawnmower. I just want to get better about this the right way. I've never seen large biodegradable poop bags for sale but I'll look. I have the individual poop ones but I'm not going to hand scoop every poop out of the yard! Also, I'm not sure which solution protects the streams best!

 

[MuckyPuppy]

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I think that it is fantastic that you pick up the poop on walks. Although most good owners will pick up their dog's mess on walks I have seen enough who don't pick it up, claim their dogs will only go once (one guy said this just as his dog did one right in front of us) on a walk or those who will bag it and then either leave it by the path or hang it off of bushes or signs (sort of a smelly Christmas ornament

).

I don't know what the solution is if you don't want to hand scoop the poops. Training the dogs to only go in one place and having a dog poo composting solution next to the entrance/exit would make it easier but it still would have to be scooped up. Other wise I'm stumped.

What do you have in your chicken run? I am leaning towards sand personally but there are others that lean towards the deep litter method and they claim that with this you only have to clean out once or twice a year. Both camps say that it helps with flies and smell. I think they both sound pretty easy and low effort.

 

[Keltara]

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At this point, don't worry about using bio degradable bags. Just get some big trash bags and fill them up until you have a clean yard. If you have a stream near by, it won't be an issue anymore because it seems you are committed not not letting this happen again. The best protection for any water source is to keep the area surrounding it clean. Once you have it all clean, your animals will have a healthy environment along with your little boy and you.

After reading some of your old posts, I must admit that I am shocked that you even have your dogs after finding out that one of them bit your one year old baby without provocation and the other has a history of doing that sort of thing. At the time you posted it, you seemed pretty committed to getting rid of the dogs for the safety of your baby. It seems there is a lot more going on here than just the feces problem.