Chicken poop

[Ajraps_homestead]

Any suggestions for what to do with chicken poop? Do you compost it? if so how? Do you just spread it on the grass?

 

[Acre4Me]

Chicken poop is “hot” and needs to be aged a bit (a few months), bc it can burn plants with too much nitrogen.

Do you have a compost pile?

 

[Sussex19]

I compost it; if you just spread it out, you will most likely kill the grass.
Our compost system is very easy, it just all gets piled up, and each year it gets moved into a new pile.
After three years, it is compost.
Not very efficient of course, but if you don't want to bother with it too much it works very well.

 

[Sally PB]

A lot of my chickens' poop goes on the compost pile. Check this out if you need to use it in a hurry (3-4 weeks).
https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/2010/05/08/hot-compost-composting-in-18-days/

 

[Tonyroo]

I use my chickens poop in my tree and flower pots. I also spread them aka " throw them" in all my garden beds as is. Chicken poop has never burned any of the plants. But don't place them around seedlings.

 

[aart]

Any suggestions for what to do with chicken poop? Do you compost it? if so how? Do you just spread it on the grass?

Is it pure poop or mixed with some kind of bedding?

 

[paintedChix]

I put it in the chicken runs. They spread it out, mix it w/ the natural materials in the run. It breaks down. I add more chicken poop & materials - pine straw, wheat & oat straw, hay, weeds, garden trimmings, grass from lawn mower, shredded paper (bills, newspaper, cardboard, used copy paper, magazines, catalogs), leaves, veggies, fruit, leftovers, pine cones, wood mulch/chips. From the brooders - the pine shavings, shredded paper & baby chic poops. Our "birdie work force" turn it, I add more. What's on bottom, breaks down. I gather & use some in gardens & we keep going...

 

[Chicken poppy]

Any suggestions for what to do with chicken poop? Do you compost it? if so how? Do you just spread it on the grass?

Great question. I use it for soil to grow my garden, however composting is a good idea, maybe i’ll give that a try sometime.

 

[Tired old Rooster]

I have a compost bin. It all goes in there.