I use stalosan too, but there is NOTHING that can neutralisise the pong of broody ppop
Try garlic powder in their water.
Errr..... why Flowerpower? Do you like them breathing garlic fumes over you while you sit in their house on your sunflower cushion? Or does it just keep vampires away?
HF
No idea why it works, but it does! I'm relying on you HF to provide a scientific explanation Why does garlic water result in non smelly poo?
OK Flowerpower,
A scientific explaination, Hmmm let's think.....? Well I guess there could be two.
Explaination 1 Placebo It's been statistically proven that the only way to conduct a truely objective survey is to have two groups composed of randomly selected subjects, one to which the test is applied and the other which is the control group which has a dummy 'sugar pill'. The test must be double blind which means the subjects
and the people compiling the results must not know which group is which so that unintentional or intentional bias is eliminated. Then providing that the test group illustrates the effect being tested to a statistically significant extent then that's a positive indication that the effect is real.
Unfortunately your subjective opinion (or anyone elses) is not valid since the rigorous trial conditions are not met. Ie no matter how objective you think you are being, you suffer from bias. It's a bit like the election debates when everyone interviewed afterwards claimed their man had won. (Obviously to a much lesser degree).
Explaination 2 Garlic really does reduce the smell of chicken poo.
If this is so you'd need to produce a hypotheses which was credible, for example, a chemical explaination as to how garlic reacts in the body to reduce the ammonia in the chx poo.
To establish this there are several things that need to be defined the most obvious is what do you mean by smell. Most people probably find the normal poo smell unpleasant (though not necessarily everyone for example my wife thinks horses are pleasantly smelly whereas I prefer chickens). If garlic made chicken poo smell like roses does that constitute "reducing the smell" or merely masking it. Having defined in greater detail what the criteria was you'd then need to to design and conduct a trial with a large number of tests (particularly as it's subjective) in which several groups of chickens were judged by several groups of people using double blind techniques.
I'm not aware of any published material which postulates what the mechanism might be or of any statistically valid test results though I've not done any in depth research on this. So for the moment the juries out no matter how many people believe it to be true. After all if you were to poll the entire population of the world before Christopher Columbus discovered America and Elvis Presley the vast majority would have said the world was square!
We could of course ask the
World Famous Poo Expert Dr Gillian McKeith to give her opinion or do some research except the good doctor isn't a real medical doctor at all and her experimental results aren't worth publishing in any serious medical journal at all and never have been. You could obtain the non-accredited PhD she claims merely by buying a correspondance course from an American correspondance "college". This also markets vitamins and health supplements as well as providing "qualifications".
If you want to know more entertaining and amusing facts about the abuse of scientific facts and methods by the media and so called scientists and experts read the very funny book "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre. Covers such things as TV experts, the facts behind supplements, popular nutrition myths MRSA, MMR scares and much more. I'd recommend it.
Bet you wish you'd never asked!
Best wishes
HF