Chicken Poop

[downinmyback]

I clean out the chickenhouse today and i remember that chicken poop start smelling bad as the weather turns warm. By the time i was finished i smell like chicken poop and my wife made me shower and change clothes before i could stay in the house lol.

[bluelacedredhead]

Down, I agree. Chicken manure can be pretty ripe when the weather starts to warm up. But it's the pig poo that makes me want to jump in the shower. Blech

They just brush against me when I feed them and I can smell it for hours.

[downinmyback]

I know what that smell like to .We ran a twenty sow and pig operation for a long time also had cows and field crops but now i am disabled i rent my farm out.Pigs are smarter than cows as you never see a pig crap or wet thereself an a cow will. We used a tractor and blade to clean our barns so there was not alot time in the hot barn doing that chore. I can honestly say i DONOT miss either cows or hogs lol.

[bluelacedredhead]

We only have a small concrete pig barn. There was a big barn here til the 70's when the people that owned the place tore it down to make money from barnboard.
So we can only have a few pigs at a time. We have a purebred Tamworth boar, two crossbred sows and babies now and again.

But being small, the barn is a shovel and garden hose job when it comes to cleaning. P-U

[flowerpower]

Pigs will use one area for a potty if they have enough room. They would go outside if given access.

[bluelacedredhead]

They have a good sized yard and 3/4's of the year they have free access to it. Sometimes in winter they do to when they break the door down, lol
These aren't little potbellied pigs. Clive weighs about 800 lbs and the sows being crosses, don't weight much less than he does. When they drop one..it's big and smelly, lol

[downinmyback]

We used Yorkshire sows and Duroc Boars to take advantage of the Yorkshire be good mothers but not as lazy as most breeds. We use to use Hampshire sows but they are really mean and when you were mwssing with their pigs they would try to eat you up. We use Duroc boars because Duroc are the laziest breed all they do are sleep and eat lol. i have necer seen a Tamworth myself but in books but they are used li8ke the Landrace breeds as lean bacon hogs. We sold a 800 pound Yourshires boar one time and used the pickup with metal sideboards because of only selling one hog. This boar was huge he had to stand crosswide and he was to long and he stood taller than the cab of the truck. I was glad he was a gentle pig as he could have hurt me lol.

[bluelacedredhead]

I can scratch the Tamworth's head and ears, or pat him on the backside. Steer him with his tail. But don't get in his way when there's FOOD. That's the only time I use extreme caution around him. Not to say that I completely ever let down my guard. These are after all omnivores and have the potential to tear a person apart. But he's very gentle as a boar goes and the breeder we bought him from said that he is just like his father before him.

Hampshires are very rare in this area. I had a call from someone that was looking for a Hampshire boar, but thought he might use ours for breeding IF he couldn't find a Hampshire. But he found what he wanted although it was a day's drive to get it..If they are mean, that he's welcome to them. I'll stick with the big red guy.

[downinmyback]

I cleaned my chicken house today and i was glad that we had a good wind blowing away from me lol.

[bluelacedredhead]

I can smell it from here!!! Oh wait, that's the wind blowing towards me from my poultry buildings, lol

[ohiorganic]

We pasture meat birds so here is litle cleaning up as they poop on the ground and ferilize the soil. But the dogs love going behind the moveable pens and licking the poop.

MMMMMMMmmmmmmmm Poooooooop AAAgghhhaaaaaa ;D

The newest dog has gone from being a chicken killer to a chicken lover now that he has discovered this by-product

[downinmyback]

I had to do my fall clean out of the chicken house today. I can say it is alot easier in the fall than the spring. I put the chicken manure straight on the garden and i will till it under after my garden finishes for the year.One thing i can say about chicken manure over rabbit manure is i have a trouble area of the garden that where the chicken poop go and my rabbit poop was spread over my new garlic plot.

[Alan]

I'm glad that others share my affinity for POOP! It doesn't make me feel so wierd. Seriously though we live next to a family that raises a good sized heard of cows and who also cut our hay in exchange for their cow manure. It's funny because my dad and the Father of the son who helps raise the cows are always making fun of myself and his son because they say all we ever talk about is poop and seeds (he works for Garst and is leading the way regionally in re-introducing farmers to OP field corn and soy beans), I suppose it comes with the territory as we are always comparing results with different types of poop and seeds.

We are supposed to be cleaning the barn out again in the middle of November sometime, we estimate there is probably close to 15 tons or more of cow poop in there and that will go a long way on the gardens for next year!

[bluelacedredhead]

OMG Alan, I hope you don't have to shovel that all by hand? And I don't want to hear anything about Kimi getting a manure fork for Christmas, although I did get one for Christmas one year, LOL