Coop run ground cover

DreamsInPink said:

Quote: You're correct, it's not quite the same.
With a compost pile, or bins, some folks often stop adding material (starting a new pile or bin) and let it rot down farther(finish) before moving to garden.
You could harvest compost for garden from chicken run, but it would be more labor/management intensive.
So maybe the best way to make the most of your chicken poop as garden fertilizer
But like previously stated, 'composting' in a chicken run is more for the good environment for the birds than producing garden fertilizer.

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aart said:

You're correct, it's not quite the same.
With a compost pile, or bins, some folks often stop adding material (starting a new pile or bin) and let it rot down farther(finish) before moving to garden.
You could harvest compost for garden from chicken run, but it would be more labor/management intensive.
So maybe the best way to make the most of your chicken poop as garden fertilizer
But like previously stated, 'composting' in a chicken run is more for the good environment for the birds than producing garden fertilizer. 

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Roada Red said:

Yes I'm sick of cleaning out two ton of straw from here coop every week so I got some sand out of the steam and its drying in he sun now so I will get a cat pooper scooper from the dollar store and clean it out every morning people say it's a lot easier and they say it don't smell at all I usually have to open the windows every once in a while just so it don't smell so much they have plea by of ventilation without the Windows but it just don't work

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Roada Red said:

There are 8 birds in a 4x8 coop and the whole length of the coop at the top there is an two inch gap about two feet long the whole way down the lengthy of the coop up by the roof each in between each 2x2 which the coop is framed out with

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