Composting and Chicken Runs

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I cleaned the old hay out of the coop and just dumped it in the run, the chickens seem to love it and I have been turning the dirt in the run every week.
Thanks for the advice!
 
When i let my girls out to free range, they haul *** to the compost pile, first thing! And i've never separated. I put anything and everything in there. The pile never seems to get bigger though! Summer grass clipping, fall leaves, kitchen scraps, garden weeds. The pile is still low to the ground b/c the scratch the __ out it every day! :)
 
AnnieE said:
When i let my girls out to free range, they haul *** to the compost pile, first thing! And i've never separated. I put anything and everything in there. The pile never seems to get bigger though! Summer grass clipping, fall leaves, kitchen scraps, garden weeds. The pile is still low to the ground b/c the scratch the __ out it every day! :)
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Same here. Pile never seems to grow. Although the soil in the area has greatly improved. I have planted a fig tree on the downhill side of the "pile" and it is greatly benefiting from being so close.
 
ChristieB said:
This thread is very helpful, Thankyou! One question though, we have some "pet " rats (bred to feed my husbands snakes) I use shredded paper/newspaper as their bedding, is this safe to add to the compost and eventually garden? I'm 99.9% sure it's not suitable to put where the chooks can get to it. Right now it goes in the bin but if I can cut back on waste even more I'd be thrilled. They get fed a mix of brood mare pellets, rat and mouse mix (lucerne grains pellets etc) fruit veges and occasionally some yogurt and if I'm desperate and have nothing else they get dog biscuits.
Would the initial smell of the soiled bedding attract or repel or not bother wild rats? I wouldn't want to be attracting them!!
Tia for any help or advice
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I don't know why not. I presume you aren't using the colored pages since that ink is not likely good for the rats and isn't good for the compost pile. And they aren't eating anything the chickens wouldn't eat given the chance so I doubt it would be a problem if the chickens scratched through it as part of the compost pile. Nothing of value for them in it though, not like kitchen scraps or yard "debris".
 

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