what do you do with all the poop ?

[Boo-Boo's Mama]

What Moabite said...the manure is one reason I wanted chickens. DH bought 6 chicks but I knew that would not be enough manure so I suggested we make our flock a lil larger so we could sell some eggs to help pay for feed...didn't mention there would be LOTS more manure

I often put the daily poo board droppings in my flowerbeds and it melts into the soil when I water or when we actually get a good rain. I screen the sand floor to the run and that all goes into the compost pile.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I put my chicken poo in the compost bin and around fruit trees.

 

[swimmer]

Get the word out that you want to get rid of it, and people will come in "flocks" to take it off your hands. I have people wanting ours and I won't part with it. The gardens are hungry for it.

 

[swimmer]

Right on Moab. It's all about the compost. Already looking forward to the wonderful gardening next year. Didn't get our birds until middle of August, so the real results won't be until next years harvest.

 

[puredelite]

Super fertlizer but it is too hot to be used fresh around most plants. Very high in nitrogen and phosphorus it works great to till in in now in the garden for Spring planting. Is true that gardeners in the "know" will line up for it!

 

[Ohhhdear]

I use straw and shredded newspapers for bedding, so the "hot" high-nitrogen chicken poop really breaks it down rapidly. I have a wheelbarrow behind my coop and a big metal bladed snow shovel. When I (or whichever son I can con into cleaning the coop) shovel out the coop they trundle the wheelbarrow up to my garden and compost heap. The girls go through it and scratch it all over, harrowing it into the soil.

 

[catdaddy66]

Mark & Nique :

I put it in the compost bin. After a cycle and many turnings, it is ready for the garden!

It is best when turned as it ages, but pure manure is considered green material; the wood shavings/hay/straw or whatever the floor has on it is brown material. The optimum ratio of green to brown is 30%/70%. Turning will speed up the process but letting it lay will work, only longer.

BTW, Mark and Nique have the best avitar; the Gamecocks are THE mascot for BYC'ers!! GO COCKS!!​

 

[kla37]

We have a compost heap just for the chicken poo and soiled shavings! Here in NC, our dirt sucks, 'cause it isn't actually dirt, just really hard clay. The pile gets turned every week and I add grass clippings and some leaves to it. My neighbors are SO jealous of my compost heap! I think they'd rather have the compost than the eggs.... It melts into the soil so quickly, and the winter veggies should be very good indeed!

 

[Lilacfeather]

Compost!!

 

[fratermus]

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This is my approach. Compost when the garden is active, manure distributed onto garden when the garden is inactive.