How do YOU compost your chicken manure?

[Georgiacanfield]

Decomposition rates vary by all sorts of factors, including what your temperature is, how precise your mixing ratios, how wet your soil is, how often it's turned, what your starting bacteria and fungi counts are, etc.
I believe that all things considered if you had two otherwise identical compost mixes and used a tumbler for one and a bin for another with otherwise identical moisture and airflow you'd see two changes;
The tumbled compost would break down faster
The tumbled compost would have a slight change in NPK and micro organisms. Especially I'd think it would lose some of the nutrients in the soil due to more of the nutrients being lost to the air instead of staying in the soil.

This is very helpful. Thank you!!

 

[elefloyd]

I'm using the Bokashi fementing method for straight chicken poop. I started over the winter. We have about 30 chickens and use a poop board. I'm getting about 5 gal every 2 weeks. I have found it takes about 30 to 40 days to get straight poop Fermented or pickled in 6.5 gal Sealed containers it takes several 6.5 gal containers in rotation . I used my first 5 gal in a new potato bed This spring.. We also have natural populations of soldier flies in Mississippi in the warmer months and I plan to make use of their composting ability and feed the chickens.

 

[Percheron chick]

That's a fantastic idea, never thought of it before. My bins aren't that large but turning it (in winter especially) is a chore, so adding airflow with an open channel like this would help work around that a bit.

You can take some scrap pieces of PVC pipe (2-4'), drill holes then drive them into the pile. Stick a hose down the pipe and you can water deep down into the pile.