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    Looking for input regarding composting chicken litter

    I am now doing worm composting which I hear is more efficient for moving nutrition through. I am shredding my used paper for some of the brown matter and then alternating it with food scraps. So far so good. In the first three weeks I had a bucket of black gold (liquid fertilizer) in my...
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    COMPOSTING

    Vehve, oh yeah, I get your point. It's 65F, not so newsworthy. I covered it with a water heater blanket and will test the heat again tomorrow. If it doesn't work, I have access to several wooden palette and maybe I can construct a box and slip insulation between the layers of wood. I need it to...
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    COMPOSTING

    Thanks for the good points. I went out today, it's a heavy fog so no sun energy. My soil thermometer measure a puny 65 C, so by your reckoning, not anywhere near hot enough for hot compost nor quick processing. yesterday it was sunny and I had a little steam rising. I am going to go to our dump...
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    COMPOSTING

    yes, I do want to break it down fast, otherwise I end up with too much backstocked material and I will be tempted to send it away as green waste.I was a given double barrel tumbling composter today by a neighbor, it's in need of slight repair but will work until I figure out how to repair the...
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    Looking for input regarding composting chicken litter

    thanks and loved the photos! how much space do you have. the pits sound like they might require too much room for my situation. I like the idea of a micro farm. I have 4 chickens and lots of veggies, a few fruit trees and vines. probably not yet a micro farm.
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    Looking for input regarding composting chicken litter

    thanks, got it on the building blocks. Like the soldier fly idea too, I think the girls would be in heaven if they could just look up and a maggot would drop into their mouth! Thanks again!
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    Looking for input regarding composting chicken litter

    ahhhh, that was really cute, thank you so much! I hadn't given much thought to the critters my compost might attract and I did have a showdown with a possum (had to scoop him out of the hen house one day with the non-business-end of a shovel, after the catapult, he scampered, then played dead, I...
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    Looking for input regarding composting chicken litter

    Hi and thanks so much for writing back! I gathered frontyard maple leaves for a deep litter and piled it in today. I am excited to see how that works. My set up is a "moat" (I like to call it that, but more accurately it's a system of chicken tunnels) around the perimeter of the backyard so the...
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    Looking for input regarding composting chicken litter

    While my hens are scratching the soil, I am scratching my head about how to make a more integrated system in my backyard that yields compost. I had been buying fabulous compost from our local dump, but they had to shut down their operations due to some permitting issues. I knew it was cheating...
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    Chicken litter compost?

    While my hens are scratching the soil, I am scratching my head about how to make a more integrated system in my backyard that yields compost. I had been buying fabulous compost from our local dump, but they had to shut down their operations due to some permitting issues. I knew it was cheating...
  11. Gaya

    COMPOSTING

    While my hens are scratching the soil, I am scratching my head about how to make a more integrated system in my backyard that yields compost. I had been buying fabulous compost from our local dump, but they had to shut down their operations due to some permitting issues. I knew it was cheating...
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    Bantam Pullets - Northern California

    Hi, I am looking for two bantam pullets to add to my flock (so far two: one leghorn and one barred rock). I live in Santa Rosa. Do you still have these pullets for sale?-Gaya
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