[sistersioux]

My dog and chickens are getting on so well after a few weeks together, so much so that the dog insists on helping me clean up after them ( she eats all the poo!!!!!)

Should I stop her or is it just nature?

[janeheritage]

I asked my vet about this when we got our girls because it grossed me out so much.

She is a great vet, a dog owner and chicken keeper, very down to earth and sensitive to animals, and she said: "I know, it's really gross, isn't it? I haven't found any way to stop them and it doesn't seem to do them any harm."

If it helps at all, my two dogs seem to have surfeited their craving for chicken poo and hardly eat it at all any more! 

[woodside farm]

My dogs do it too I don't think it harms them as mine have been doing it for years  
Michelle

[funky chicken]

Euew,gross!! Now I just KNOW that Zackie-the-blunder dog is going to do that when our girls arrive,he eats anything that isn't nailed down or mouldy,(apart from 'doggie treats),he's a bit picky about them :blink:
Ahh well thanks for the warning

[Nickchick]

You're lucky - my dog eats cat poo!!!!!!!!! 

[janeheritage]

You're lucky - my dog eats cat poo!!!!!!!!! 

pleh pleh PLEH  !!!!!

[SMD66]

our jack russell spends all her time walking around our plot looking for and eating rabbit poo, she loves it!  Our other dog once ate a big link of pig poo!  Hurl!!

[barney rubble]

I've got two that like rolling in cow pat and horse poo ....any guesses who they might be?

[SMD66]

apparently they like to roll in poo that smells of their prey to disguise their own smell, watch out for barney and rubble stalking cows and horses! 

[janeheritage]

I've heard that but it doesn't seem to hang together for me. Here's my English Springer Molly rolling in fresh cow flop. Here's Molly stalking bunnies. The bunnies see her and they say, "Coo, it's black and white and it smells of poo, it must be a cow."

Maybe not...  :blink:

[SMD66]

and why do they roll in fox poo?

[joyfull]

because it's very very smelly 

[SMD66]

stoopid dogs, 

[Sue33]

my dog doesn't eat chicken poop (I wish she did ) but she will roll around if there's a dead bird when we go to the park or nature reserve, absolutely disgusting

[Elcie]

My dog does this for the poo with yellow in it!  Not very nice at all.  Mind you, not as bad as the last dog I had.  Was changing my son's dirty nappy, cleaning him up, went to fold the nappy together.....

Let's just say it was cleaner than when I took it off him!