Chicken manure.

[NightsInWhiteSilkies]

Ive heard chicken manure is very good for your plants and flowers.
I clean out the coop and runner area often and basically scrape the top which is mixed in with some dirt.
Whats the ratio of dirt to chicken manure to use in potting soil or is it okay to just add whatever amount there is of the manuer/dirt mixture?

 

[bucky52]

when i was a small child,i remember my mom telling me that you have to be careful on how much you use.that it would burn your plants.
.i have been tossing it on the garden all winter.i have been told that it is high in nitrogen.

 

[Fred's Hens]

You'd probably want to compost it before using it directly in your potting plants. If potting is what you wish to do, compost it, along with grass, leaves, etc for 8 months before using in pots.

Applying it directly to the garden in late fall and throughout winter is an acceptable practice. Just cease applying raw manure 60 days before spring planting. Your garden will thank you. Compost during the growing season.

 

[NightsInWhiteSilkies]

The manure is mixed with dirt so it isnt straight manure. Id say the dirt is half and the other half is manure.
Should I use say a third of that to the remainder of dirt and mix that in to the potting soil?
Ive heard it can burn the plants too.
Ive got it piling up in the backyard from months of cleaning the runner.

 

[AllenInTampa]

Go to a feed store and get a 55 gallon plastic barrel. They usually are from a restaurant and had peppers or pickles in them. The one by me, the barrels run about $15. Get a drill and drill bit, and go crazy with it drilling holes. Add all your chicken poop, any kitchen veggie scraps, coffee grounds(with filter), weeds and lawn clippings. The barrel is easy to hide in a corner and keeps all your compost neat and contained. If you have a need for a lot of compost, you may want to get 2 barrels. One for completed compost, and one that you currently add to. I have 4 of them

 

[gg706]

That is a great idea....only I haven't seen any at my nearby feed store. I am going to have to look a little harder.

 

[AllenInTampa]

That is a great idea....only I haven't seen any at my nearby feed store. I am going to have to look a little harder.

Check your local craigslist also

 

[NightsInWhiteSilkies]

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[NightsInWhiteSilkies]

Go to a feed store and get a 55 gallon plastic barrel. They usually are from a restaurant and had peppers or pickles in them. The one by me, the barrels run about $15. Get a drill and drill bit, and go crazy with it drilling holes. Add all your chicken poop, any kitchen veggie scraps, coffee grounds(with filter), weeds and lawn clippings. The barrel is easy to hide in a corner and keeps all your compost neat and contained. If you have a need for a lot of compost, you may want to get 2 barrels. One for completed compost, and one that you currently add to. I have 4 of them

Thats a really awesome idea and Ill be doing that with what ive got already but my question is do I just use what is in the barrell or do I add have dirt with that mixture too?
I know coffee grounds are good for soil as well. Also when summer time starts should I put water into the barrell when Im watering my other plants so it saturates it well continually during the summer time?