Okay. I have just found another "home" thread! Eee! This is what I have to work with.
Ok, I don't have trash service at my homestead which is 30 years old, but new to me. Since I moved in 2 months ago, I have loved separating my trash (paper, plastic, metal, recyclable/reusable boxes and plastic containers, coffee grounds/egg shells, and COMPOST!) i wash and save a LOT of plastic containers, which has become amazing for use with new chicks and seedlings for a garden.
I have 2 plastic Folgers coffee tubs (with the lids) that hold used coffee grounds in one and egg shells in the other that sit sealed on my counter, I add to them daily and can wait a whole week before the bins get full. I feed the kitchen scraps to the two guinea pigs, except for some fruit, and will be sharing that with the chicks soon and as they get older. I have bedding from the guinea pigs, and the brooder, but I am trying deep litter in the coop, so that won't be available to add till next year. So far, the coop only has sand in it (plus acorns and sticks and a few weeds as it was outside under a swing set for 20 years.)
We also have acres of oak leaves, which I can't wait to start mulching. It sounds like I can both use the leaves in the coop for deep litter, and add to the compost pile.
Originally, we burned the compost with the paper trash, being new to the no trash service situation. Then the compost pile looked too much like a trash dump, so I started saving it in a paper lawn waste bag, which, after 6 weeks, is just now 3/4 full and in its own dumpster bin. Now I know a little more, I will add some leaves and the rest of what I've been saving of the animal litter (another one bag full) and kitchen scraps. I have multiple uses for the coffee grounds and egg shells, which is why I store them separately, but some will eventually find their way into the compost. I have been dehydrating fruit a lot recently, and making a lot of salsa and jam, so I have a lot of scraps coming now.
I started just using paper yard waste bags to collect the kitchen scraps, and setting it in its own dumpster, but if I dump that out in the original pile from last month, add some mulched leaves and turn it, I should have something more attractive, right? I will be able to build something next month. I like the idea of the 6 wire bins that you move each week. Except I don't generate so much fodder...I'll see what happens when I get all the leaves mulched.