I want to compost and use it for my garden next year. I am new to this so I do not know how. Right now I have soil mixed with the pine shavings and droppings from my chicken coop. Is this a start or is it wrong? What's next? This year I used this organic fertilizer bit it's expensive. I have 14 birds so I thought why not put their waste to use. When I clean out the coop I collect alot of droppings that's mixed with their bedding which is fine pine shavings.