Composting Pine Pellets

[operator16]

Can I do it? The chicks are outside, but my brooders sit in our shop still filled with lots of poop and 1/2 broken down pine pellets. Can I dump all of that into my compost pile?

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Just make sure you add extra moisture to the pile. Those things really soak it up.

 

[Tala]

Mine self-compost when it rains. It's true that they soak up a lot of moisture, but they compost way faster than the pine chips!!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

I use them as kitty litter. Really keeps the smell down. But I don't compost the kitty litter.

 

[LittleChocobo]

The packaging says that they're ready for composting, and that's what we do with the pellets we use in the horse stalls - they go into the manure pile, which is waiting to break down a bit before being spread. But, as people have been saying, they absorb a lot of moisture. They break down a lot easier with the moisture, too, so if you let them soak in water or dump some water into the compost heap, they'll be falling apart.