Locking Bar Eglu Classic

[chicken bark]

Please do not read if you have eaten/or are about to eat.

 

Yesterday I gave my hens some left over sweetcorn. It was gone in seconds obviously - all hens seem to love sweetcorn.

 

Today Chicken Bark did her usual first poo of the day - it has a distinctive fizzy sound to it. In it was a piece of sweetcorn which Summer spotted straight away. I will not say any more.

 

 

I have tried to convince myself that the sweetcorn was already on the floor and that CB just went near it (but I know this is not the case).

[chickyhazel]

Chickens are so stupid... look for food, see food, eat food... they probably thought it would be a shame to waste it Although it is pretty

[Chicken Shirl]

Gosh My hens will not even step in their poo and they will skirt around food if it is anywhere near poo. I know it's hard to believe (and I can hear the from here) but it is true. My DH and I comment on this all the time. They are never contained so it must be that. We have had chickens for the last eight years and I have never picked a chicken up with poo on her/his feet. Mud, yes, but not poo.

[Space Chick]

I gave my dog sweetcorn, and didn't clean up before letting the girls out as didn't know he'd been.

 

I'll leave you to work out the story

 

Thankfully the offending girl wasn't laying at the time

[jennydavies]

I can totally understand what you say Shirl, ours will not go anywhere near poo, they avoid it in the hen-house, in the run and in the grass. They will not touch any bits of food if it falls in poo (even sweetcorn, which is their absolute favourite) no, ours do not do poo

[chicken bark]

I can totally understand what you say Shirl, ours will not go anywhere near poo, they avoid it in the hen-house, in the run and in the grass. They will not touch any bits of food if it falls in poo (even sweetcorn, which is their absolute favourite) no, ours do not do poo

 

Wanna swap hens?

[Alis girls]

Waste not want not - i can remember when kids were little - nappy contained bits of carrot, sweetcorn and pea - totally undigested - thanks have had breakfast - animals have no qualms - our cat often sniffs her brothers bum after hes done a poo. I dont let her on my knee for at least a day

[Chick-a-doodle-doo]

I used to have a dog who ate poo then sit on my knee and burp

 

Sorry, probably off topic but had to share.

[Chicken Shirl]

I used to have a dog who ate poo then sit on my knee and burp

 

Sorry, probably off topic but had to share.

 

[stoice]

I've seen chooks eat hedgehog poop before.

My dog LOVES chicken poop but then she also likes rabbit raisins and horse poop too. We have a definite 'no face kissing' rule in our household!

[Saronne]

I used to have a dog who ate poo then sit on my knee and burp

 

Sorry, probably off topic but had to share.

 

 

Hahaha!!!

 

Saronne x

[Egluntyne]

Waste not, want not.

[littlehenny]

When we first got our chickens my next door neighbours cat used to come over the fence, eat their poo then return to her kitchen to sick it all up!!!!

[Debby Tutton]

I know what you all mean,

 

We got 2 ikkle kittens when the dog was a year old and we hardly ever had to empty their cat tray. Me, being a bit dim, was concerned they weren't well My hubby filled me in on what was really happening.

 

We keep the dog out of the chook paddock; just in case. She used to wash the kittens bottoms all the time, I don't think the chooks would be so tolerant.

[chickyhazel]

Wanna swap hens?

If you're giving away hens, I'll have the amber star - ours is gorgeous!

[Valkyrie]

Ahhh, recycling chickens and dawgies.

[inezrosen]

Gosh you all have lovely creatures - my chooks eat (in addition to obvious food in dog poo) dead birds, dead rats/mice and past incarnations even ate each other! Mind you, it keeps you fit chasing chickens round the garden to retrieve the said items. (Still not as bad as the dog swallowing whole a dead rabbit and on another occasion a heavily decayed stoat!)

Inez (mum to 3 "girlies" - unnamed after the fox got my last batch).

[Alis girls]

No you didint have to share the burping dog with us but it made me laugh. Makes me wonder why we have animals - children are bad enough - boys esp going thro the wind at both ends stage which makes me bellow at them - let alone anilmals with 'orrible habits