Official BYC Poll: How Do You Get Rid of Dirty Coop Bedding?

How Do You Get Rid of Dirty Coop Bedding? Do you...

  • Compost it

    Votes: 237 69.3%
  • Throw it away with the garbage

    Votes: 42 12.3%
  • Give it away to others

    Votes: 8 2.3%
  • Dump it in the woods

    Votes: 37 10.8%
  • Use it in the garden as fertilizer

    Votes: 123 36.0%
  • Burn it

    Votes: 13 3.8%
  • Other (elaborate in a reply below)

    Votes: 25 7.3%
  • Scatter it in the run

    Votes: 58 17.0%

  • Total voters
    342
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It is essential to keep your chicken coop clean if you raise chickens. This includes changing the bedding (regardless of the method you use).

This week, we want to find out: How Do You Get Rid of Dirty Coop Bedding?

Place your vote above, and please elaborate in a reply below if you chose "Other".

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Dirty coop bedding here is sometimes composted; given to friends and neighbours as and when requested; added directly to the garden as fertilizer as needed; and added to the garden waste which the local council collect and compost, if there is still surplus after the first three options (as there sometimes is, especially in winter).
 
I'm using shredded paper for bedding currently. It goes on a bedding pile. I can't in any honesty call it a compost pile yet. Paper on it's own takes a long time to degrade. One day I will add vegetable matter and get in there with a fork and turn it over.
Before I got involved with these chickens the bedding was just scraped out of the coop onto the run floor. This has proven to be a complete disaster. It has made layers rather than fully compost into the ground below and rats have made tunnels below these layers, not to mention the mud/muck problem when it rains.
 

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