Vermicompost chicken poop pit

[Anny]

Is there any way to build a pit under the chicken roosts, that I can have worms live in to help break down the poop? Or is fresh chicken poop so strong for the worms? I have a worm farm that is working wonderfully, and I wanted to apply that idea to the chicken coop waste. What do you think? Has anyone done this?

 

[Hugerat]

It is very hot, it is a better addition to your compost pile. You could let it compost with dry leaves, clippings, kitchen waste etc for a few weeks and then give the mix to the worms to finish it off. My worms pretty much just get veggie scraps and coffee grounds.

 

[joya36]

Is there any way to build a pit under the chicken , that I can have worms live in to help break down the poop? Or is fresh chicken poop so strong for the worms? I have a worm farm that is working wonderfully, and I wanted to apply that idea to the chicken coop waste. What do you think? Has anyone done this?

I just did it in my coop. I dug out under the coop about 18” deep. I put in the plastic trays from my worm farm and stacked them 3 trays deep. I stuck a ton of torn cardboard in each tray because it’s high in carbon, and the chicken poop is super high in nitrogen so the carbon balances it out. I add some leaves to the top bin from my pepper tree every so often. It seems to be working well so far. My coop isn’t smelly. I like to vermicompost with a ton of worms because it speeds up the process so much. so hopefully in a month or two I can take out my first batch of chicken/vermicompost.

 

[perkolator]

I saw a guy on YouTube doing a lot of composting with his chickens. He had a simple rotation where he was using straw/leaves/Organics from his property as bedding under the roosts, that he’d change out maybe every other week. The old bedding went straight into an empty hoop/cylinder of fencing (like mini compost piles) located in a “chicken composting yard” where they could further decompose and get eaten by worms. Later he’d toss in some grain to sprout and then pull off the ring and chickens will till it in with compost pile and eat the worms and grain sprouts = good compost and free chicken food.