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Many many years ago, when Hector was a pup, we talked about "chicken squat," and it was clear from context that it meant chicken poop.
There was a ditty. I don't remember much of it, but two lines went, "chicken squat, put it on bread and eat it hot."
I have been unable to find in any of the online dictionaries any definition equating squat with poop.
The closest is using it in combination with diddly, as in, he didn't know diddly-squat about anything.
Anybody else ever heard squat used the same way I did decades and decades ago?

I've never heard "chicken squat" before.

The only thing it brings to mine for me would be something I definitely wouldn't want to put on bread and eat.

About the only times I use the word squat is either to sit "Cop a Squat" or telling someone they have nothing "You have Squat"

Shit and Squat both start with S.

I have heard Squat used as a euphemism for poop since I was a kid in the early 1970's. I still hear it used, most often by veterans, when not wishing to offend polite company.

On a tip via PM, I found the phrase "Guess What? Chicken Squat. Put it on Bread and Eat it Hot" as the headline on an archived article that appears to be from a British woman who raised chickens. Article is more than 10 years old.

I have been unable to find in any of the online dictionaries any definition equating squat with poop

Has anyone looked-up squat in the Oxford Dictionary?
It's I.1. definition describes the traditional position for pooping when there is no loo.

squat /skwɒt/

I. verb
1. [no obj.] — crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs
• I squatted down in front of him.
2. [with obj.] — [Weightlifting] crouch down with one's knees bent and rise again while holding (a specified weight) across one's shoulders
• he can squat 850 pounds.
3. [no obj.] — unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land
• eight families are squatting in the house.
4. [with obj.] — unlawfully occupy (an uninhabited building).
• Clare, Briony, and the others had squatted the old council house.
5. [no obj.] — (Austral./NZ) 'historical' occupy a tract of Crown land in order to graze cattle or sheep.
• many people moved further out and squatted on the land.

II. adjective
short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide
• he was muscular and squat
• a squat grey house.

III. noun
1. [in sing.] — a squatting position.
2. [Weightlifting] an exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell across one's shoulders.
3. (in gymnastics) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action.
4. a building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so.
• a basement room in a North London squat.
5. an unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building.
• this squat cost the ratepayer £46,000.
6. (N. Amer.) 'informal' short for diddly-squat.
• I didn't know squat about writing plays.

IV. derivatives
1. squatly adverb
2. squatness noun

– origin Middle English (in the sense 'thrust down with force'): from Old French esquatir 'flatten', based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere 'compel' (see cogent). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th cent.

Stevenson, Angus. Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford University Press - A. Kindle-Version.

HM.