Composting chicken poo?

[cmom]

I put my coop litter and poop in my compost piles along with grass clippings, leaves and wood chips. We have a wood chipper so any branches from the trees get made into chips and go into the compost along with any vegetable scraps that we don't feed the chickens. When we have a fire in our fireplace the ash also gets put into the compost.

 

[jpsbcfc]

i have 4 of what we call dalek composters.

i have just been throwing the poo and straw in there for now, no grass clippings at this time of the year so will have to wait till new year.

may try some shredded paper in there tho.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

Composting the most efficiently uses two main ingredients. One is brown and high carbon, like wood shavings you use for litter or dry leaves. The other is green and high nitrogen, like chicken poop, vegetable scraps, grass clippings or green leaves.

If you have the right mix in your litter, you might not need to add anything to it. If you're the kind of person that cleans a lot and has very little poop mixed in the litter, then you need to add more green, high nitrogen items to it.

Although, even if it was short on poop, if you put it in the corner of the yard, it would still compost over time. It would just take a really long time. It composts much faster if it has the right mix between the two types of ingredients. Turning it also speeds it up.