Husband thinks it's ok to compost IN the chicken run. I disagree, who is right?

[5Australorpasaures]

Husband and wife disagree? I'll stay out of the middle of this one.

 

[WildNectarine]

Meanwhile, I’m here changing the paper liner for my pet quail every day all worried about germs…

 

[Sally PB]

Someone here on BYC has turned his chicken run into a composting chicken run. It has worked well for him for several years, and he gets hundreds of dollars worth of compost every spring for his planters and gardens.

I do both chicken run composting and compost bin composting. The bin is for the kitchen scrap bucket* and the chicken poop I clean off the poop boards every day. The run is for the shavings I clean out of the coop once a year, lots of leaves in the fall, buckets of weeds from the garden, and certain kitchen scraps that I'll have in abundance at times or donations from a neighbor. It has never been a problem. The chickens love all the things I bring, peck and scratch them into the dirt. I need to dig out a load of compost, as it's so high, my head is about to brush one of the metal cross poles in the roof.

*I would have two kitchen scrap/compost buckets, one for chicken-ok stuff, and one for not-ok stuff, but we have too many things on the counter as it is.