Yucky strange things we do for our flock

Have you picked up poop with your hands?

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snow5164 said:
While gathering eggs you see a big poop in the sand ... do you
A-pick it up with your hand?
B-go get the scoop ?
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I usually have the pooper scooper with me in the run while working with the chickens. But using your scenario (let's say it's dusk and chickens are roosting, and I don't carry the poop scooper at that point), I'll either...

1) kick some litter over it and promptly forget about it

2) get the paint scraper that's parked in the run specifically to scrape poop off things like roosts and hardscape, flick it somewhere, then kick some litter over it and promptly forget about it

Obviously that doesn't work with sand, but great with deep litter. Pooper scooper is for big obvious poops I don't want to step on, and for free ranging time, because if I don't pick up, my dog will.
 
Killer Tomato said:
This is not chicken related, but with my little geriatric Dutch rabbit, I would regularly have to bathe his butt too, and the easiest way was to climb in the bathtub with him (I was fully clothed).

I would sit him, between my legs, with a little water in the tub, and clean his nether regions. He was very old,(10) and only daily medications, so needless to say, he wasn't very tidy. I was literally loosening the water softened poops from around his genitalia. He never bit me, or panicked, or struggled. I managed to bond him with a sweet, young thing (he was neutered), and between the both of us, he stayed a bit cleaner, and lived another happy year.

I can't believe I confessed this.
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That is such a sweet story!
 
rosemarythyme said:
I usually have the pooper scooper with me in the run while working with the chickens. But using your scenario (let's say it's dusk and chickens are roosting, and I don't carry the poop scooper at that point), I'll either...

1) kick some litter over it and promptly forget about it

2) get the paint scraper that's parked in the run specifically to scrape poop off things like roosts and hardscape, flick it somewhere, then kick some litter over it and promptly forget about it

Obviously that doesn't work with sand, but great with deep litter. Pooper scooper is for big obvious poops I don't want to step on, and for free ranging time, because if I don't pick up, my dog will.
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Yes my dog also goes for the Hershey’s kisses :sick
 
I'll never tell, but:

How bout clean up after the fact?

I keep a small bottle of dish washing soap by the coop. Never use a tissue from my pocket b/c there is often some hay chaff in that pocket, and if there is hay chaff, it's a given that there's been an egg or two there, possibly with a skid mark on it. I have to take a nail brush to the bottom of my feet often b/c they get "stuff" that is not very lady like ground into them. I think the bottoms of my feet are maybe not supposed to be black! And my floors???? Must push a broom or mop around often to clean up the crud that gets tracked through the house.

A word to the wise: Always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS keep your mouth closed when using the hose.
 
Can’t deny I’ve touched chicken poop with my bare hands. Are usually try to keep rubber gloves in the coop but. But other things I’ve had to do for my chickens that I never thought I would do was push prolapse back in to my chicken twice a day for about a week straight. I think the worst chore I’ve ever had to do though wasn’t for my chickens but for my goats. I have decided now that I have had to reach inside my go to pull out her baby because she was having trouble giving birth then Not too much can phase me or gross me out now LOL
 
Of course!
It's nothing a little soap and water won't wash off!

And once my hands are dirty...the list of things I touch broadens more and more. Lol.
Picking poo off feathers, pasty butts, holding my chickens when they have muddy/poo feet, picking poo off my seat in the run, none of it bothers me... "any more" ... (I can't remember that it ever has...)

I've been raising animals my entire life! Rodents, reptiles, birds, horses, goats, cats, dogs...you name it. And I've done countless "icky" things...all in the name of LOVE for my animal-babies!!
 

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