How To Keep Chickens From Pooping On My Porch

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How to keep my gratuitous-range chickens from pooping on my deck, porch, and driveway

• Thread starter flemmingfarms
• Start engagement Jul 2, 2013

• #i

Then we are crazy and we got about 60 chicks this leap. Amongst them are some ISA Browns (the majority), Dark-brown Sex-linked, Black sex-linked, and Australorps. We also accept two contrasted bantams. They have a coop that is about 15' x thirteen' and they are free-range 24/7. They go in their coop at night on their own (or close to information technology). In that location is a wooded area for them to explore, lots of open grassy areas that are mowed, lots of grassy areas that are non mowed. We are on 6 acres. Nosotros feed them layer pellets (they are about 16 weeks now) and they also get fresh "table scraps" that we put out by the coop. Why is it that they come and hang out on our deck, our wooden porch, and our driveway. When they are in that location they poop all over everything. It is really bad, equally I'm sure yous tin imagine. If we come out to shoo them off, they all run over to u.s.a. considering they associate us with food. Options? We want to keep them free range, only don't know what to do. My husband is about ready to give them away.

• #two

Put upward a movable craven fence. If you free range they go where they want not where y'all want. Proceed a hose nearby.

Give them some grower feed instead of layer.

Wish ya the best.

• #three

I accept a agglomeration of small flocks on my acreage, and they as well free range 24/7. I fill the feeders before letting everybody loose (ours all figured out to go in) which helps sate them without them seeing me feed, then they hide out for the heat of the twenty-four hour period. I'grand careful to attempt to become the kids to non drop food on the deck to proceed the ane flock from hanging out on the deck; I take 1 flock of ix that likes to actually come inside the firm if the kids leave the back door open. I also make being on the deck a not cool place to exist by spooking them a bit.

Don't know about you, but fencing them abroad from the house would toll thousands of dollars. So nosotros bargain with poop and save the money.

• #4

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Yous sure did jump in the deep end. The simply way to really deep them off is to fence either them or your house. You lot could effort to lure them away by feeding them far from the business firm. If y'all don't have a fenced area or large run for the already think virtually building 1 and then limiting the time they have to free range.

• #5

You could attempt electrical poultry netting. Information technology's easy to move and much less costly than permanent fencing.

• #half dozen

Fifty-fifty to apply portable electric fencing around our yard and leaving the chickens on the rest (driveway, etc) is over $2000. I already priced it out once.

• #seven

Whoa! That'southward pricey. Now I feel a little more validated in my "should I/shouldn't I" for about $350 worth of netting.

Peradventure y'all could attempt hanging out on the deck with Supersoakers and blasting the chickens when they come up up?...

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• #ix

Solutions can exist expensive. Human being 2k is a lot of money. Only that would set the problem. I feel for ya.

• #10

I don't know if it'southward an option for the OP to fence. Non for u.s.. We alive with information technology, and it would seem the chickens are getting the bulletin...haven't had whatever visitors today on the deck.

I ability wash the deck when necessary. No problemo.

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