[Maccbean]

Sorry to bring it up, but after spending £40 on reseeding the lawn earlier this year, I'm trying to keep it in good nick.  That means clearing up the poo once a day from the lawn.  Not all of the poos are firm if you know what I mean  , and I'm currently using rubber gloves to pick and clear it out of the grass, but I don't like the smell of my hands after.  Does anyone have a really efficient way of clearing their chickens poo off the grass that I might copy?

Thanks
Debbie

[Mulberry1990]

We use a dustpan and paint scraper =) Then if the grass gets a bit yacky we brush it with the brush that came with the dustpan. It works quite well once you learn the technique!

[kegs]

I use a metal coal shovel (Asda), along with a garden trowel and a small paint bucket.  I carry all three items round the garden with me ever hopeful that there won't be too many of the coffee sauce poos !! 

[ANHBUC]

We use a plastic dustpan, an old trowel and an old plastic waste paper bin with water in it to put the dustpan and trowel in after use.  Then we use the water for plants which works as a fertiliser.   

[ManicMum]

We use a child's plastic beach spade & plastic rake - any bits we miss is dealt with by the dogs..... yukk!

[otis pony]

We use a childs plastic spade too, and a good hard quick blast with the garden hose 

[AL Hathaway]

we hose down  the really yucky yellow poops but the hard ones we just use a pooper scooper it's like a dust pan with a handel and a little rake that is all metal.

[ali2]

I use a long handled dustpan and yard broom ...saves an awful lot of bending down !!

[Helenaj]

I have this vision of chicken keepers all over the world wearing Marigolds and carrying buckets and spades, striding out into garden wilderness to fight the good fight against chicken poo - what a sight we must make to non-chicken folk!!   

[kegs]

I have this vision of chicken keepers all over the world wearing Marigolds and carrying buckets and spades, striding out into garden wilderness to fight the good fight against chicken poo - what a sight we must make to non-chicken folk!!   

And as I'm constantly bobbing up and down - and virtually crawling under the quince tree - I feel a bit like a large chicken pecking around the ground.  I'm sure the chickens wonder what the heck I'm doing - and I know they just wait until I've scooped up the last pile of poo and then they suddenly rush round creating more. 

[Maccbean]

To be honest, I never used to bother picking it up because it didn't seem a problem.  Our two labs would just go out cotton picking poo picking.  Bad enough that they were eating it, but I'd not realised how much they were eating until we fenced off the grass from the patio, a sandwich box a day, barf!

[ANHBUC]

To be honest, I never used to bother picking it up because it didn't seem a problem.  Our two labs would just go out cotton picking poo picking.  Bad enough that they were eating it, but I'd not realised how much they were eating until we fenced off the grass from the patio, a sandwich box a day, barf!

Make sure your labs are regularly wormed as they can pick all sorts of nasties from hen and other bird poos.   

[Dominic]

I just give it a quick blast with the hosepipe if its on the path or the garden furniture.
Otherwise, I'm just tolerating long grass.....

[Maccbean]

To be honest, I never used to bother picking it up because it didn't seem a problem.  Our two labs would just go out cotton picking poo picking.  Bad enough that they were eating it, but I'd not realised how much they were eating until we fenced off the grass from the patio, a sandwich box a day, barf!

Make sure your labs are regularly wormed as they can pick all sorts of nasties from hen and other bird poos.   

I'm afraid to say, chicken poo is the least of my worries with my two!  But yes, everyone is regularly wormed.

[CDave]

Cat litter scoop and a wall paper scraper. works a treat.