To be PISSED OFF at the smell

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of next doors chickens? They are right on the patio slap bang next to ours and they STINK! The smell of ammonia smacks the back of my nostrils when the wind blows. Are they even allowed to be this close to the house? No sign of rats as they have cats luckily. I am wary about talking to my neighbour as a) she is lovely, b) she works long anti social hours in a demanding job and c) we have recently had a dispute as such over parking.

Would you be pissed off by it? The coop does get cleaned and the chooks are fine and healthy but I cannot handle the smell on warm sunny days. I have my downstairs windows and doors shut on a lovely day

I'd rather have a chicken poo smell than my next door neighbour's toxic mixture of plug in air freshener and cigarette smoke [boak] I have to retreat indoors and close the windows when she has her patio doors open

Perhaps just have a word with your neighbour. She needs to poo pick, hose down and disinfect at the end of each day.

Mine are very close to the house, like 10 feet away and they do smell - but they smell because I take the poo out every day and put it in a large garden bag to take to my allotment every week.

There is no way to stop the bag from smelling and even if I didn't use it as manure on compost I would be putting it in the black bin which would reek.

Do you all actually pick poop up from around the garden?Or just in the run?

Our black wheelie bin does smell of chicken poo and cat litter, but it only smells when the lid is opened.

It does also depend on what you feed.Ours free range about 50% ,and we only feed layers pellets and corn.I have found that a bit like dog food the lower quality food produces more poo and more smelly poo

RunningLatte - i just do the run, but I do pick from the garden if it's getting too much (usually, the bigger the space the less it needs picking )

latte we have a small garden and pick from both the garden and patio area, and sweep the patio area afterwards too. Tbqh we often don't let them on the lawn in the height of the summer, as getting the poo out of the grass is a nightmare.
We tend not to pick from the run every day, though, as it's badly designed (whoops) and a nightmare to do - we find as long as there is plenty of fresh wood chippings in it to soak up liquids/dry the poo out quickly, it doesn't pong. We change the chippings weekly in the summer.

A neighbour has chickens? Hens, I hope. Any chance of eggs?

you poo pick daily I never poo pick, I rake the run over once a week and chuck some lime down, hose the patio down and leave whats on the lawn to get trodden in, doesnt smell. cant even see any poo that needs picking in the run, they dig it through the wood chip. worried now that my hens are dirty. clean the house out once a week.

least chickenpoo smells nothing like dog poo!

Dita, don't worry, I've never poo picked in my life. Chickens have been in a fixed run for nine years. Never poo picked, and only dug it over and limed it for the first time last week. It doesn't smell. Chickens are healthy.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't poo pick!

Mine poop liberally all over the garden - although I do attempt to clear the path now and then! Tbh when I clean them out the old bedding etc goes straight on the compost heap.

I am a chook slattern

Our old neighbours had chickens, and a cat, a duck and 2 dogs. They rarely cleared their garden and it absolutely stank, especially on a warm day!

DH and I were only saying, at the weekend, how nice it was to have a pleasant smelling garden next door for a change!

dita I expect it depends largely on the size of your garden - ours is very small and would be overrun with flies if we didn't :)