Chicken poop in the Garden

[rosemarythyme]

I have bins so I have to stir to aerate. Went with bins since tumblers tend to be smaller capacity and more expensive. I compost the chicken poop along with all my other stuff (food scraps, egg shells, dried leaves, garden trimmings) and yes I give it a year, with a new bin started each spring. During winter I just leave it alone, seems to be fine that way.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Yes! That is exactly what I've been looking for! We don't have Costco near us...I will have to see what I can find/make. What is the white bin under the one barrel for? I'm amazed that it just takes you a few weeks to have it all composted! Hopefully it works that way for us! Right now our coop litter goes into the run for the chickens to spread around and eventually decomposes/blows away. I was thinking it mostly blew away until a few weeks ago when we got massive flooding and the only thing that wasn't underwater was the coop and run! I didn't realize it had gotten build up so much!

I bet if you toss horse poop and chicken poop together (with a touch of water) in a tumbler you will get a quick 2 week compost in the summertime (fall and spring??). Chicken poop is almost pure nitrogen ((for greening leaves (not fruit, not roots....well, kinda not really... all organic is good because of micronutients and plant absorption I mean really it could go on and on... sorry)) Also check Amazon and Ebay.
When finished cooking, I unlatch and turn barrel to empty contents into white 1/2 barrel (cut length wise) because my tumblers are too low to get a wheel barrel under (bad design? Lucky chickens?) and I thought i would try this instead of raising the bins.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I went back out to the garden for a bit.

I am moving all my raised beds.
I needed to level an area some.
This soul sucking clay is already like concrete!
Even with years and years of adding chicken compost, leaves and grass clippings.

I will be sourcing horse poo!

 

[Bjburns]

I guess I don't know Jack.

 

[TropicalBabies]

I have bins so I have to stir to aerate. Went with bins since tumblers tend to be smaller capacity and more expensive. I compost the chicken poop along with all my other stuff (food scraps, egg shells, dried leaves, garden trimmings) and yes I give it a year, with a new bin started each spring. During winter I just leave it alone, seems to be fine that way.

I have 7 bins at our horses pasture and I looooove them. We fill with only horse poop, add water, no turning and in 2 months we will have the prettiest compost a body could ever want to see. I can then transport finished product home -our lot is about 3/4 acre and we have two homes, a patio, a shop, a couple garages, trees and fruit trees, garden, coops and run... (etc. etc.) So/and for my home use (chicken poop, kitchen, yard plus) they are slow, a pain to deal with, they attract the bad bugs and they take up more room. I never get good clean compost for my garden after a long wait. I've seen 55gal single tumblers as low as $30 on Craigslist. Keep an eye out for... you may like them a lot too for same reasons.

 

[Col1948]

Here in the UK years ago we used to get what we called 'The Rag and Bone Man' he used to come round all the streets on a horse and cart and give a shout as he stopped at certain places.
As kids we heard him and begged our mums for any old rags to give him, in return he gave us a balloon or a dinner plate or a cup and saucer.

Any way sometimes his horse would leave some droppings and then we were told to go and shovel it up and bring it in for the garden, my grandad often went out for it as well for his tomatoes lol, to him it was like gold dust.

Many a time when he came round some kids would take washing off the clothes line and rush out to the bone man just to get a balloon, unbeknownst to their mum of course.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Here in the UK years ago we used to get what we called 'The Rag and Bone Man' he used to come round all the streets on a horse and cart and give a shout as he stopped at certain places.
As kids we heard him and begged our mums for any old rags to give him, in return he gave us a balloon or a dinner plate or a cup and saucer.

Any way sometimes his horse would leave some droppings and then we were told to go and shovel it up and bring it in for the garden, my grandad often went out for it as well for his tomatoes lol, to him it was like gold dust.

Many a time when he came round some kids would take washing off the clothes line and rush out to the bone man just to get a balloon, unbeknownst to their mum of course.

That's an awesome story.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Here in the UK years ago we used to get what we called 'The Rag and Bone Man' he used to come round all the streets on a horse and cart and give a shout as he stopped at certain places.
As kids we heard him and begged our mums for any old rags to give him, in return he gave us a balloon or a dinner plate or a cup and saucer.

Any way sometimes his horse would leave some droppings and then we were told to go and shovel it up and bring it in for the garden, my grandad often went out for it as well for his tomatoes lol, to him it was like gold dust.

Many a time when he came round some kids would take washing off the clothes line and rush out to the bone man just to get a balloon, unbeknownst to their mum of course.

That IS a great story... but the last one you told us was about your neighbor Jack. Well, either way thank you, I really like your stories.

 

[RenoHuskerDu]

SNIP
Horse poop.... on the other hand is a almost perfect compost as is. It can and has been used immediately in many a good garden... I personally do not unless it is something like trees or grass. SNIP
I can pick up poop from the run and put it right in, when it is finished they can do their digging and get the grubs out.
SNIP

Funny you should mention grubs. We used horse manure on our garden in France, and wound up with grubs. Big white ones, fat and 1" long. Locals said to let it lie a year next time. We had no chickens to dig the grubs out.
FYI

 

[TropicalBabies]

Oh la la! We have French bugs!