Using composted chicken poop in the garden. Or not?

[Grand-hen-ma]

I compost all my chicken poo and when it comes time to till the garden, all that compost gets added and churned into the soil.Something else I use is Bat poop. I have a bat box and a large bowl that hangs under the bats and collects their poop. Bat poop is very very hot so it can't be used directly on growing plants. I mix about a cupful into both sides of the composter and let it cook with every thing else, for about a month.

Good luck

 

[gale65]

Thanks everyone. We probably won't end up composting it after all since we are planning to use sand. I'll just scoop out the poos and throw them in the manure spreader (that dh uses to spread cow poo on the farmground) and not worry about it being in the veggies. I did put a little in the composter right after we got them but I doubt there would be any concern with day old chick poo and also it'll be in there close to a year before we use it.

 

[Fred's Hens]

We market garden for a living. Manure, and especially chicken manure, is essential for our organic program.

Every state Agricultural university has published guidelines for manure use in the garden. They are simple to understood and follow. I wouldn't garden without manure, but I also wouldn't violate the rules of when to make manure applications. Here are just a few publication bulletins. Easy to read.

http://umaine.edu/publications/2510e/

http://gardening.wsu.edu/text/faqvege.htm#manure

 

[MyChickenWishList]

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If you do the research on recalled foods for E Coli and salmonella and pretty much any other recall on food...they usually are commercially farmed foods.
There are two kinds of animal poo you can use in your garden. Hot and cold. Chicken poo is considered hot as it definitely has to be composted in a hot compost pile before you can use on your garden (veggies and flowers) or it will burn your plants. Example of cold compost would be rabbit manure. As it can be added directly to your garden without composting...although rabbit urine will burn your plants...so if you collect both from rabbits you should compost on the pile first.
By maintaining a proper compost pile (keeping it hot and cooking by adding browns and greens with poo) it will balance out so you have no worries about getting something bad on your plants.

If you have any doubts I would recommend doing research on how to maintain a compost pile.

I use both rabbit and chicken poo in my veggie gardens...and trust everything I eat as I know exactly how it was grown and maintained.