Composting: Chicken manure and feathers?

[Yardbird Posse]

While cleaning up all the FOD in my coop, I end up with all the beneficial manure as well as a fair amount of feathers that have been cast by our 6 birds. The materials are placed on a large compost pile that is cooking quite nicely. Just curious if anyone knows of issues with composting the feathers? Is it a typical process for those of you that compost your chicken manure?

TIA

 

[Chick Charm]

Love your avatar!

I throw feathers in my compost & I do not have any issues. The worms (or heat) seem to eat em up pretty fast.

Wish ya the best.

 

[Yardbird Posse]

Love your avatar!

I throw feathers in my compost & I do not have any issues. The worms (or heat) seem to eat em up pretty fast.

Wish ya the best.

Thanks! Glad you like my naked chicken.

We have a pretty hot pile going that's about 4 cubic yards in size. I figured the feathers would just break down but something made me want to ask to see if others had any advice or warnings about it.

 

[chfite]

The feathers are essentially protein. I toss everything that comes out with the litter into the compost. No problems.

Chris