shaving from coop used on garden

[onthespot]

I have a LOT of shavings the first half of the year, from raising out hundreds of chicks. Instead of composting it separate, I just dug it into the part of the garden I was not using. I have been watering it a few times a week, turning it every month or so to control the weeds and to get them composted back to the earth. (to get more green in there, to balance out the carbon from all the wood shavings.) I am expecting that next spring that garden will go bezerk with veggies for me!

 

[LaStrawberryMom]

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I totally agree!

 

[Sinfonian]

Instead of tossing it during the year, put it in with some grass clippings and build a compost pile. My bedding is a welcome addition to all the greens we get in the spring. Good luck!

 

[mcostas]

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What blasphomey!!!!! Throw away chicken litter?!?!?! And you have A GARDEN!!!


Chicken litter compost produces results that are etherworldy!!! I'm not joking! My tomatoes grew so much they covered everything, even the patio table!! I was giving away a box a day for weeks!

My peppers are still producing! I am thinking about putting peat in the pen. Right now I use leaves on a shallow bed of sand over whatever is in my yard. The poo mostly dissapears. I rack out the leaves and put in fresh leaves every now and then. I am trying to keep them in till afternoon so they have been more digging. I think basically the poo turns to powder and they basicall live on it which really bothers me.

I am thinking of adding a few bags of peat. I think it would dessicate the poo better and I could rack it all out and put in my compost bin.

 

[Honeysucklefeathers]

My compost pile is close to the coop for just that reason. I pull everything out and put it in the pile in the fall and turn it a few times and by spring it's ready to use. Plants love it