What kind of clothes/shoe do you wear when you're in the coop and run?

[ChickenToes]

I wear pretty much anything in the coop. In the morning, it's usually my pajamas. During the day it's whatever I happen to be wearing that day. But I always wear rubber boots into the coop.

So yes, this morning I was walking around the yard in my pink pajamas and blue rubber boots. I'm very classy.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

I love my Crocs. They are antimicrobial and are very easy to clean.

 

[OutInTheStiks]

Normally just whatever I happen to have on. I do keep a pair of crocs just inside the basement door that I put on if I happen to be barefoot. Although, last night I forgot to close the chicken door until I was heading to bed so I strolled across the yard in boxerbriefs to close the doors to both coops.

 

[rhondapiper]

I wear flipflops in the summer. My chickens peck pretty gently, so no worries about getting henpecked toes. I've got fake crocs, but everything I put on the front porch gets filled with spiders, so I prefer flipflops. The crocs fill up with nasty bugs fast.

For winter, I bought a pair of rubber boots, but I got them too small and they're hard to slip on and off. I'm going to get another pair, a few sizes too large, just for the coop. The spider issue isn't so bad in winter, so hopefully I won't be too afraid about putting them on.

As for clothes, I wear just about anything. I don't buy clothes that don't wash well, so I go in there in anything from pajamas to dressy work clothes.

I use a natural bug spray on my legs, because I'm in sundresses or running shorts a lot of the time, and I get tons of mosquito bites. I don't bother with gloves when I clean, just wash up well when I'm finished.

 

[davidr]

I have "backyard" clothes that i garden, cut the grass etc. But I have a pair of old shoes that I wear in the chicken house and no where else.

I do use a hand sanitizer (sp?) after being in the chicken house, or touching the chickens. The pop up kind that comes in a canister.

If I was to track sandy chicken poop back into the house it would be the end of me, the chickens, and all life on the planet.

David

 

[ChooksChick]

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You slay me!! Too funny...before I lost my job, my hubby used to complain about my ritual of walking straight through the house, business heels and all, and out the back door to the coop- without breaking stride. I'd go hang out with the birds to decompress. I'd only come back to the house after a bit so the family didn't have to deal with a meanie.

It wasn't that I'd blow the family off that bothered him, but that I was out hanging with chickens in business clothes and heels!



Now I generally wear any old thing and tend to be barefoot. That's a hazard, of course, because occasionally I will fail to see something prior to planting a foot in it...but not often. I think twice this summer.

We, too, have chiggers like mad- and they're worse this year than I've seen in years.

I get a bottle of sulfur (Flowers of Sulfur or Sublimed Sulfur on the label- not the agricultural sulfur) from the pharmacy at the grocery store and dump some of it in an old sock. This is used to dust between you and any place where clothes fit snugly (i.e. the places chiggers go to bite, because they push off of clothing). If going camping, I put a tablespoon of it in a gallon ziplock and put my undergarments and socks in and shake- let it sit overnight.

Never get a chigger bite if I sulfur up! ...but I get eaten alive if I don't.


And for those who read the label, I KNOW it says not to get it on skin, but the Poison Control nixed that worry for me when I called to ask, and it's approved for compounding dermatological treatments- means it's safe for skin use...and I'm allergic to sulfa drugs- doesn't bother me a bit!

 

[AZ Heat]

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Oh boy... you're asking for it if your chickens peck like mine do...

 

[raimnel]

Way to funny! I think I laughed myself through this thread.

I usually wear my pj's in the morning to tend first to the fatties (broilers) then to our peeps (our fancy and reg. chickens who are all only 5 weeks old) The neighbor tries not to look.

This week was the first time I seen him home in the morning. and this morning was the first he seen me outside tending to the chickens. (in my pj's) to funny. during the day I'm in what ever I put on for the day and flip flops again sparkely nail polish not a good idea, fortunitally (sp?) for me my flip flops have jewels on them and they are more interested in them then my toes.

 

[oldchickenman]

nothing neked i say neked

 

[DiVon80]

Here in Louisiana summers are really warm rest of the year pretty nice. So in summer Its rubber boots w shorts, Fall rubber boots w shorts and a flannel shirt, Winter rubber boots w jeans/sweat pants, Spring pretty much a variation of the same. Always rubber boots that I can leave by the door.