What do YOU do with old coop bedding?

[RebelEgger]

Just wondering what people do with their old coop bedding?
I use pine shavings in my coop and just cleaned it out for the first time. We currently do not have a compost pile and aren’t set up for one at the time. I thought I read a thread somewhere about putting the removed coop shavings into the run but wasn’t sure if this would just be a place for bacteria and disease to breed.
our run is covered and is all topsoil. If I put the old bedding into the run I was planning on covering it with a new layer of topsoil. (We have a HUGE topsoil pile - our family calls it Hobbiton) would that be acceptable?

 

[mowin]

I sweep mine into the run.

 

[FortCluck]

Compost it and use it in the garden beds and potted plants once it’s done being composted.

 

[Painted Calls]

I spread it in the run as well.

 

[farmlife55]

We put it in the run as well.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Pine shavings take a long time to compost without having enough green in with it.
That said I have composted it with the compost being primarily the coop leavings. It took 2 years.

The last several years when the garden is done I start spreading them on there. I give one heavy deep pass with the big tiller before ground freeze. That does a few things. It gets them spread through the soil where the good microbes are and opens the soil for moisture and air. By spring they are all disappeared.

 

[BeanBoy]

I sweep what I can into a bucket and take it to be burned in the burn barrel. What can’t be swept into the bucket, just gets swept into the run

 

[black_cat]

Part of it goes to the run, part to the compost, and part (In a garbage bag) to the garbage. I

 

[cluckmecoop7]

I don't have a compost pile yet so mine goes in the woods.

 

[aart]

our run is covered and is all topsoil. If I put the old bedding into the run I was planning on covering it with a new layer of topsoil. (We have a HUGE topsoil pile - our family calls it Hobbiton) would that be acceptable?

Topsoil is not going to cut it for long, even mixed with coop shavings.
Show us your run and tell us how many birds you have.
My runs have semi-deep litter(cold composting), never clean anything out, just add smaller dry materials on occasion, add larger wood chippings as needed.
Aged ramial wood chippings are best IMO.