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Hi everyone! New to chickens and I love my girls, they are so entertaining! I have 4 easter eggers and 4 columbian wyandottes. They started laying eggs in December and will be a year old next month. Building my first coop was a great learning experience and it's just been so fun raising chickens, even our corgis love them haha. This was our first winter using the chickens to turn over and fertilize our vegetable garden, they did great. I'm now composting their manure until the time comes to release them onto the garden again. Unfortunately I cannot free range them on our acre of land as we have too many predators here in Maryland. Considering to build a chicken tractor for safe grazing. Also, would like to know how everyone else manages chicken manure.
 
FarmerFergie said:
Hi everyone! New to chickens and I love my girls, they are so entertaining! I have 4 easter eggers and 4 columbian wyandottes. They started laying eggs in December and will be a year old next month. Building my first coop was a great learning experience and it's just been so fun raising chickens, even our corgis love them haha. This was our first winter using the chickens to turn over and fertilize our vegetable garden, they did great. I'm now composting their manure until the time comes to release them onto the garden again. Unfortunately I cannot free range them on our acre of land as we have too many predators here in Maryland. Considering to build a chicken tractor for safe grazing. Also, would like to know how everyone else manages chicken manure.
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So many great ideas! Welcome! Please teach me how to have my chickens work the garden!😧 I hate gardening! If it doesn't chirp, squeal, chatter, sing, meow, bark, whinny, blat, or moo, it dies from neglect.🥺 My thumbs have never been green.🙁
 
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.

I use poop boards under my roost and scoop them each morning. The contents go into a kitty litter bucket that is dumped into my compost bin when it's full. I have two bays in the compost bin. For every bucket I dump from the coop I add one bucket of very fine sawdust that I get from a local mill. It typically takes about a year to fill up one bay. I don't turn it throughout the season as you're supposed to to get a good compost but it still breaks down good enough for me.
In the spring when I do my annual coop clean out, I take the compost from the previous year and empty into my garden beds and turn it in. Then I move the newest bay over into the now empty bay and layer it in with the contents from the coop litter. I then start adding the fresh stuff to the now empty bay.
 
DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.

I use poop boards under my roost and scoop them each morning. The contents go into a kitty litter bucket that is dumped into my compost bin when it's full. I have two bays in the compost bin. For every bucket I dump from the coop I add one bucket of very fine sawdust that I get from a local mill. It typically takes about a year to fill up one bay. I don't turn it throughout the season as you're supposed to to get a good compost but it still breaks down good enough for me.
In the spring when I do my annual coop clean out, I take the compost from the previous year and empty into my garden beds and turn it in. Then I move the newest bay over into the now empty bay and layer it in with the contents from the coop litter. I then start adding the fresh stuff to the now empty bay.
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Thank you!
 

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