What do you wear on your feet in your coop area?

[TXchickmum]

-garden clogs. -wear 'em outside for everything - gardening, tending chickens, fetching mail, etc.

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Muck boots... for anything like tending the chickens, milking the cow, helping my mom and dad with the garden, milking the goats, riding my horse and exercising them: almost every thing around the farm.

 

[Hokum Coco]

Somethings you might try when you retire:

I went a whole year bare foot in Canada for at least 15 minutes a day.
Things I learned during that experience. Rock salt smarts on the feet. Super markets will let you in the store and purchase what you want for just this one time only (on six different occasions) walkers on the street are dumb founded when they see bare foot tracks on the side of the road in the snow. If you are rich they call you ex-centric if you are not they call you stupid.

Never had the flu or even a cold that year!

 

[PeepsAreForMe]

flat bottom shoes eh? hope were not this person in wallmart a while back- http://sadpanda.us/images/1223785-1FRXSWG.jpg
then again they woud be pretty awesome as coop shoes given their ability to soak up any unsightly stains quickly though for some reason all the adverts for em seem to think it comes out blue.
-sorry...saw that pic on friendsofwallmart along time ago and saved it.
she has the right idea,those things are very absorbant,if ended up with cuts on feet from the chucks that doesnt matter.... just give the top of the affected foot a quick wipe with the other 'shoe' and it will absorb the blood in no time,for extra protection coud stick one on the top of the foot as well.

mine range from bare feet due to making a break for freedom out the door to see the chickens after being kept stuck indoors all day,to big mountain horse yard boots.

there is a special shoe/boot cleaner available if look in rider/countrywear/farmer shops.
this is the sort of cleaner- http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com/boot-cleaner-scraper-brushes-black.html
we have a much larger version of that drilled to the wall at our farm project with a pressure sensitive tap on it so people just have to put their shoe on it and the tap comes on,itd be worth getting a basic one of those then woud be able to wear any type of boot/shoe that want.

OMG I just checked my thread because someone just replied. That Walmart picture and commentary was freakin hysterical!!!! My husband got a good laugh too, I had to read it to him!

 

[FenikT]

No "special" footwear here. I normally wear hard soled bed slippers outside in the morning to let the girls out of the coop or into the run. In the afternoon I usually toss my work boots on to beat around the yard. Whatever the case, I always hit the soles w/ the hose to clear off dirt, pooh, etc. and to disintegrate any pooh presents left on the concrete pad or wood porch.

 

[mtnviewfarms]

Heavily treaded fleece lined waterproof boots in snow and muddy rainy weather.

Old tennis shoes with good tread - prefer high tops so the straw and 'stuff' from the coop/run dosen't get in my shoes for warmer dry weather.

 

[WRVgirl]

I have 3 different "chicken" shoes, depending on the weather! Lol

1 pair of old, raggedly flippy floppies for the summer [which is practically year round here in NC]
1 pair of old, raggedy garden crocs for running back and forth from the coop to the garage and garden hose for making fermented feed
and
1 pair of old, raggedy rocket dogs [like the big, fuzzy ugg boots] with a flat bottom for when it's ridiculously cold outside and I need my whole foot and calf to be warm, not just my soles.

Lol

I sometimes go running out back in normal shoes and catch myself halfway off the porch, or halfway to the coop when I have to slow down and hop over chicken poop mounds
But it's all worth it because I'm going to have awesome grass this summer!