Wow! Chicken compost is the ultimate best soil! We started it last year and the bottom is perfect garden soil! Unbelievable! I've started throwing fruit skins, vegetable tops, rotten vegetables and weeds in the mix too! I've never been so excited over compost!
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Before you use your compost you need to make sure that it is not hot.It will burn your plants and whatever you use it on.I'm not sure how long,but it needs time to cool down.I feed my egg shells back to my chickens for calcium.When I clean my coop i remove the shavings and poo and place it in a pile or in my compost bin.It makes wonderful fertilizer.I then put fresh shavings in and do the deep liter method.
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