Anyone has composted Chicken manure waste?

[olivialewis]

I read an article which talks about commercial scale chicken manure composting technology, all information are well detailed in this post, but still wondering whether it is effective to compost my chicken manure waste with other organic residues. Please share your ideas with me.

here is the link: http://compost-turner.net/compostin...n-manure-usage-composting-chicken-litter.html

 

[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to BYC. Composting manure is not something I have tried. Hopefully others will be able to share their experience with you.

 

[SueT]

Of course it's effective.....what else are you going to do with it? Mine is mixed w shavings and turns into a lovely compost.

 

[Slike]

There's a bit of science to it, but the general rule of thumb I work by is to mix it with as much other materials as possible. I take yard waste materials (rotting wood, green + dried leaves, grass, dead roots, etc) and kitchen scraps (vegetable peelings, pithy stuff, inedible stems, fruit rinds, fruit cores, etc) and toss it all in the same container with the chicken manure. I place all this into plastic totes with lids that click down in order to keep out rats, and small holes drilled into the bottom for drainage. Thankfully those are the only vermin I have to worry about trying to get at it.

I like to inoculate the new bins of compost with old, finished compost, so that it gets a nice dose of the kind of soil organisms I'm after. They help it all to break down more thoroughly and quickly.

Some people make a big fuss about layering it, but unless I've got a LOT of a particular thing, I don't go out of my way to make special layers. When I have "browns" (dead leaves as an example) I add my "browns". When I have "greens" (say, funky cabbage leaves, collard stems, bug-chewed stuff) I add those.

I have back problems and enough other things to do rather than turn compost by hand, so I have integrated my compost bins into my chickens' yard, and I periodically open the tops once stuff has broken down significantly and let them have fun. Its stimulating for them and they enjoy it while doing me a service. They scratch it up and turn it. I might walk out there and flip some of it from down low to up top for them to play in.

My methods aren't commercial by any means, but they work for me.

 

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[Trish1974]

Absolutely! I compost my chicken manure with straw and/or shavings and eggshells. It makes for a great soil additive for tomatoes and other garden vegetables. I don't think you need a fancy tumbler or device unless you have very limited space. I keep three piles of different ages in a corner of my garden and turn them over with a pitchfork every couple weeks.

 

[Teila]

G'Day from down under Olivia Welcome!

I have two compost bins going, the full one 'cooks' while the other one is getting topped up.

I toss in the girls left over watermelon husks, kitchen 'green' scraps, garden prunings and rakings [dead leaves] etc and of course, the morning collection of overnight chicken poop; works well for my garden.

 

[olivialewis]

Of course it's effective.....what else are you going to do with it? Mine is mixed w shavings and turns into a lovely compost.

my other raw materials would be kitchen scraps, such as egg shell, vegetable waste etc.