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Gumboots, slip-on yard shoes and boot scrapers for the back door.

3 gift ideas here, each with a real shop for your country where we've found one.

A boot scraper for the back door

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Gets the worst of the mud and chook-yard muck off before boots come inside. A small, practical gift that gets used every day. The UK Poppy Forge scraper is British-made steel with a weighted base, or can be pegged into the ground.

A good pair of gumboots

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Dry feet for wet mornings in the garden, the paddock or the chook run. They're made of different things, which matters if the wearer has a latex allergy. Blundstone's Tasmanian-made 001 is PVC/nitrile. Hunter's Original Tall is natural rubber. Muck's Muckster II Mid is a neoprene bootie on a rubber sole that rolls down into a shoe.

Slip-on garden clogs or shoes

Also in Clothing & comfort › Boots, clogs & boot scrapers (Gardening)

Waterproof slip-ons to leave at the back door for quick trips to the veggie patch, the washing line or the chooks, and they hose clean afterwards. Sloggers are made in the USA; the US shoe comes in fun prints, chickens included.