Will fermenting feed prevent cecal poop smell?

[morrowtom63]

I need to know if fermenting layer crumble will reduce or eliminate cecal poop smell because my current setup cannot allow any smell of chicken manure to escape. Or does anybody here have any suggestion on how to prevent or completely eliminate cecal poop?

 

[Cheekychook12]

I need to know if fermenting layer crumble will reduce or eliminate cecal poop smell because my current setup cannot allow any smell of chicken manure to escape. Or does anybody here have any suggestion on how to prevent or completely eliminate cecal poop?

What is your current setup?
I doubt there is much you can do to stop poop from smelling bad..
you could try feeding them small amounts of herb and lavender but I doubt it’ll work

 

[Altairsky]

No, there is nothing that can prevent cecal poop from smelling the way it smells because of chicken anatomy.

 

[StinkyAcres]

Maybe consider adding something absorbent like zeolite to their bedding.

If your chickens aren't producing those stinky cecal poops there is something wrong.

"Cecal poop is produced from the caecum of the chicken and are expelled every 8-10 droppings. It is generally thicker and stickier than normal, and can range from yellow to black in colour and has a particularly obscene smell. As unpleasant as it might be, cecal poop is a good indication that the digestive tract is working properly."
https://www.backyardchickencoops.co...entre/chicken-poop-whats-normal-and-whats-not

 

[Debbie292d]

We use horse bedding pellets in the coops and brooders. We have had three large brooders full of chicks in our house, and you wouldn't know it. I stir the pellets every other day or so in the brooders with my hand, as their poops are dried out.

 

[Perris]

As others have said, caecal poop is a good and necessary thing for the chicken.

my current setup cannot allow any smell of chicken manure to escape

For human social or coop physical reasons? If the latter, you need to improve the ventilation quickly or your chickens will develop respiratory problems.

If the smell offends you, imagine being in their position and having to live in it and breathe it 24/7. Ammonia damages their air ways just as it does ours.

fermenting layer crumble

Smells pretty awful too. Fermented whole grains smell nice, but layer crumble is a different animal, which would compound the olfactory challenge there not ameliorate it.

 

[SkyAJK]

Add some rosemary herb, this herb smells could mask some of the poop smell, but as far as I know.