Yucky strange things we do for our flock

[BlackHackle]

What have you done as you tended to your flock that’s yucky or strange to others?

Wiped a chickens butt for a show

 

[JedJackson]

I was cleaning out my waterer this morning , you know with my fingers going round and round trying to catch the poop .... and I thought who would have thought I’d end up here?

What have you done as you tended to your flock that’s yucky or strange to others?

Here’s another one ;

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 ?

I used my hand ... I have water and antibacterial soup in my coop


Tell me your fast and efficient ways to tend to your hens health and well being .... then go wash your hands

I have a couple of boxes of disposable gloves at the ready for dealing with poop, so my skin doesn't ever come in contact with their doo doo. I have a pair in my back pocket all the time at home. It's not that I am squeamish, just a matter of keeping things sanitary for the flock's health and mine. Actually, I take care of most hands on business with my flock early in the morning, and delay my shower until after that so I don't have to worry about stuff like salmonella.

Now, when I was a kid, that was a different story. I was usually barefoot and stepped in plenty of poop-- easily washed off with a hose if you don't let it dry. And I didn't hesitate to scoop up poop with my hands if it got in their nest boxes. Who had time to go get a scoop? We didn't even have a scoop. It was the shovel or nothing.

Probably the most unsanitary thing I did then was wash chickens in the kitchen sink before shows. I am not sure how I convinced my mom to let me do that, but she did not like it at all! It disgusted her and she would have that sink filled with bleach water for hours and hours afterward. I would never, ever do that now.

 

[BantyChooks]

word to the wise: Always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS keep your mouth closed when using the hose.

Never a truer post has been written.

I am perhaps a little lax on sanitary methods. I'm sometimes amazed I haven't gotten salmonella yet. I won't tell any stories for fear of someone having me committed, but there's plenty of them, that much I can assure you.

 

[Killer Tomato]

My boyfriend is a plumber, so he can pretty much deal with human poop and not get squeamish -- but he literally gags with any kind of animal poop. For the first 6 months that our chickens began laying, he could NOT eat the eggs because "everything comes out of the same spot!" (he didn't know that before, and was fine with store bought eggs). It was ridiculous.

He's since gotten over it, and loves the eggs, but he's still extremely grossed out by all animal poop. I could see his disgust when I was cleaning the coop, or walking around the garden in flip flops.

When I come to bed at night he will ask me, "You're not climbing into bed with those *Hobbit Feet* are you? Have you washed those things off?" (yes, I usually have).

 

[rosemarythyme]

After fishing two chicks out of an old and much used outside privy a few years ago I can honestly chicken poop doesn't bother me that much

You win this thread. Absolutely, 100%. Although probably... not the thread you want to win!