can i ue a compost bin when I clean out the hen house

[tafflass]

Hi, gonna have some chickens soon and would like to know whether it would be worthwhile getting a compost bin, I was thinking that maybe aswell as household waste I may be able to put waste from the hens in the bin. Sorry new owner to be here.

 

[kazoo1111]

chicken poop makes great compost that's what I do with mine if you have a garden you can just put it straight in there.

 

[SweetSilver]

Compost is easy-- unless you live in the Atacama desert, if you dump it, it will rot. A bin would make the combination of food scraps and other compostable waste and manure easy to combine, and keep the food from the rodents and other critters. We have worm bins specifically for the food waste that doesn't get thrown straight in the coop and compostables (q-tips, dryer lint, etc), and we add coop bedding straight to that for worm bedding. Works nicely--worms like the manure!

Worm bins are "cool decomposition", manure piles without loads of bedding are usually "hot piles" and will get too hot to support worm populations. I don't mention that to get you confused, and one is not necessarily better than the other--just so you know!

 

[tafflass]

Thank you very much, and the info about the worms was my next question lol, this site is brill and with everyones knowledge I know I will bring my hens up right and happy