Poop

[Docsflocks]

Where do you dispose of the majority of your chicken poop. Best use of the chicken poop?

 

[DobieLover]

Where do you dispose of the majority of your chicken poop. Best use of the chicken poop?

I scoop the poop boards daily and when the bucket is full, it goes into the compost bin which I layer in with grass clippings. It composts for a year before being turned into the garden beds.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Best use is to compost it for the garden or lawn.
Other than that is bagging and putting it in the trash bin.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Deep Litter slow composts - the bottom gets shoveled out and turned into either my soil in the pasture where I have exposed clays, or into a fallow raised garden bed to over-winter (or over-summer) before the next planting.

 

[3KillerBs]

Compost for my garden!

 

[rosemarythyme]

I also collect it for composting, for gardeners it's a great side benefit of having chickens.

 

[Sally PB]

I got chickens for eggs, but the poop for compost is a close second.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

...and if your purpose is fertilizer, chicken poops, honestly, are a poor choice. Hard to gather, and they are "hot" fertilizers - too much nitrogen, will burn many , perhaps most, plants - which is why we are all either using them with other materials in a compost, setting the in fallow fields for a season, or both.

Goat pellets are better.

Cow patties better still.

(from a "less waiting" perspective).

 

[rosemarythyme]

...and if your purpose is fertilizer, chicken poops, honestly, are a poor choice. Hard to gather, and they are "hot" fertilizers - too much nitrogen, will burn many , perhaps most, plants - which is why we are all either using them with other materials in a compost, setting the in fallow fields for a season, or both.

Goat pellets are better.

Cow patties better still.

(from a "less waiting" perspective).

But goats and cows don't lay eggs! (This is why I see poop as a side benefit... wasn't why I got chickens, but might as well make use of the poop rather than having to find ways to dispose of it, especially considering the amount of poop they generate).

 

[CrazyChicken Lady]

I use duck poop in the compost.
It’s less “ hot “ so less nitrogen. Works great for me!