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[FirewifeJess]

Chicken poo breaks down pretty quickly because it is 'hot'. My compost bin is made up of 5 pallets ziptied together in the shape of the letter E. I put the raw in the left, turn it over every few days for a week, and as it breaks down I move it to the right bin to let it break down more. You can get free pallets just about anywhere. We get ours from Del's and Probuild.

I'll have to look around for pallets, thanks! What about the front of it, is all the compost just kinda falling out the front of it?

I've read chickens love compost bins. Do yours scratch around in there?

 

[SadieSue]

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That's a brilliant idea! I never thought of zip tying pallets together! We have a tumbler composter that I was sure I needed, but it is slooowwww. We get pallets all the time at our shop, so I could actually make a composter like yours and save the tumbler for composting kitchen scraps. I've never wanted to put food scraps outside so I could avoid attracting varmints. Hmmm... We're considering having a landscaper come in and redesign our yard since it's been torn apart by chickens - I'll bet I can find a good corner for a composter!

 

[Teva]

I'll have to look around for pallets, thanks! What about the front of it, is all the compost just kinda falling out the front of it?

I've read chickens love compost bins. Do yours scratch around in there?

My chickens pretty much eat everything - I dump my scraps in their pen before I put it in the compost bin. What they don't eat I move over to the bin (which is about 10 feet away). For some reason they don't like lettuce or zucchini so far. strange birds.

They like to scratch in the compost bin for worms and such, wich is fine for me because it aerate's more than me turning with a pitchfork. I have a 1x6 up against the front bottom of the bin to keep it from being scattered out. It doesn't really get high enough to fall out any more than that.

 

[RaZ]

Hmmm... We're considering having a landscaper come in and redesign our yard since it's been torn apart by chickens - I'll bet I can find a good corner for a composter!

Hmm, I'm a landscaper with a MS in Ecology, with an Advanced Master Gardener and Advanced Master Composter certification. And I keep chickens.
Maybe now would be a good time for me to relocate from Michigan to Washinton????

 

[Teva]

Hmm, I'm a landscaper with a MS in Ecology, with an Advanced Master Gardener and Advanced Master Composter certification. And I keep chickens.
Maybe now would be a good time for me to relocate from Michigan to Washinton????

Gotta learn how to spell it first!

(tee hee)

 

[Ogress]

Hmm, I'm a landscaper with a MS in Ecology, with an Advanced Master Gardener and Advanced Master Composter certification. And I keep chickens.
Maybe now would be a good time for me to relocate from Michigan to Washinton????

Only if you can figure out what to do with the huge muddy puddles that form and fester for 3/4ths of the year once the chickens have eaten out every blade of grass. Where I live, we usually get 60 to 80 inches of rain per year, and some years we get over 100. French drains plug up almost as soon as you install them. I'm considering putting in fake grass in some areas.

 

[KMoran]

I remembered a few of you were gluten free and I came across this recipe and thought I would share. They are also dairy free...

These Peanut Butter Cornmeal Cookies are the product of curious thinking and experimentation. Gluten and dairy free, the cookies are made with crunchy peanut butter and rolled in sugar for sweetness. The cornmeal adds a little extra texture to these cookies, without a distinguishable taste. Though the cornmeal can give the cookies a drier texture, it isn't anything a glass of milk can't cure.
One Year Ago: Chocolate Filled Buns
Peanut Butter Cornmeal Cookies
Yields about 18 cookies
1 cup chunky peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar, plus extra for rolling
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/3 cup cornmeal
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
In a large mixing bowl, cream together the peanut butter and sugar. Add the egg and vanilla extract, mixing well. Stir in baking powder and cornmeal. The batter will be very thick. Add 2-3 tablespoons water to smooth out the batter.
Form tablespoon-sized balls and roll cookie dough in sugar. Place cookies on a baking sheet and flatten. Press a fork into the top to create decorative patterns. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for at least 5-10 minutes before moving to a cooling rack to cool completely. The cookies will be very fragile and need to cool down before they can be moved.

 

[SadieSue]

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The mud, the mud, the mud. With tall trees blocking out good sunlight in our backyard, a Golden Retriever that DH tosses balls and toys for who creates torn up paths and chickens eating every patch of green in our yard, I'm looking for areas planted just for chickens, lots of rock and flag stone paths, and terraces that DH insists he's going to plant himself. Just need someone to plot it out properly and do the heavy work.

 

[Breshcandra]

Chick Pictures.....



the one on the right has something wrong with his leg. He can't walk on it and for the most part it sticks out to the side.

is the one in front a Lavender? Its a very light grey not white like the splashes.

 

[KMoran]

UGH just came in from mowing the yard n one of my turkeys was dead... it was fine 15 mins before that...