What's the Best Way to Compost Chicken Poop?

[Canes1]

I have access to pretty much all the chicken manure I want,but I'm just looking for the best and easiest way to Compost it for my container growing of super hots and peppers....I was also wondering if I can just spread it over my wife's garden at the end of the growing season and it will be broken down in May,our planting season.


It's all mixed,some is dried and some is fresh,so it's what ever I have loaded in my kids truck(he gets to clean it too,LOL

Thanks

Chris

 

[sobelri]

The best and easiest way to compost chicken manure is what you already proposed.
Distribute in the garden after the growing season and let it age over the winter.
The aging process helps break down any pathogens and ammonia. Also by exposing the manure
to rain/snow helps the salts leach out.

Hope that helps.

 

[Canes1]

The best and easiest way to compost chicken manure is what you already proposed.Distribute in the garden after the growing season and let it age over the winter.The aging process helps break down any pathogens and ammonia. Also by exposing the manureto rain/snow helps the salts leach out.Hope that helps.

If I wanted to compost the chicken manure for my container grows would I use it the same way as I would using brown material? Mix in the manure with greens?

 

[sobelri]

Chicken manure is green material not brown. It may come with additional bedding (eg hay) mixed in but
should always be treated as a green.

You can certainly mix it in w/ browns to create a more diverse compost but you still need to let it age.
If your trying to do hot composting (where it's ready in a few weeks), I would not use fresh chicken manure
in the mix. As mentioned in the earlier post, the chicken manure needs to age for a number of months. Once
it's been aged then it can be mixed in to the hot compost pile/container. How long does it need to age?
Some say 90 days, I prefer at least six months.

 

[moruga welder]

Chicken manure is green material not brown. It may come with additional bedding (eg hay) mixed in but
should always be treated as a green.

You can certainly mix it in w/ browns to create a more diverse compost but you still need to let it age.
If your trying to do hot composting (where it's ready in a few weeks), I would not use fresh chicken manure
in the mix. As mentioned in the earlier post, the chicken manure needs to age for a number of months. Once
it's been aged then it can be mixed in to the hot compost pile/container. How long does it need to age?
Some say 90 days, I prefer at least six months.

 
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[solid7]

Yeah, I'm with the others that say mix it over the winter. Add your leaves in the fall. You won't ever want for anything else...

 

[Canes1]

Chicken manure is green material not brown. It may come with additional bedding (eg hay) mixed in butshould always be treated as a green.You can certainly mix it in w/ browns to create a more diverse compost but you still need to let it age.If your trying to do hot composting (where it's ready in a few weeks), I would not use fresh chicken manurein the mix. As mentioned in the earlier post, the chicken manure needs to age for a number of months. Onceit's been aged then it can be mixed in to the hot compost pile/container. How long does it need to age?Some say 90 days, I prefer at least six months.

Thanks for the info, I'll get a compost bin set up in the corner of my yard and do hot composting in the spring .

Just wondering if it will compost as fast in "my" winter up here.

 

[solid7]

If you're that worried that it won't be completely composted, rotate your garden every year. Lay out two separate plots, and compost each one on its "off" year.

Again, you want the fastest way, mix your chicken poo with leaves in the fall, and till it in about 8 inches deep. I have never had better gardens, than when I was lucky enough to live in a place with real soil, and I mulched in this manner...

 

[Myxlplyk]

Personally, I'd do it another way... mix it with straw and leaves, and let it sit all winter. It will break down. I've read that leaving it alone will compost it in a year. With browns to feed itself to, it shouldn't take that long.

 

[Canes1]

Personally, I'd do it another way... mix it with straw and leaves, and let it sit all winter. It will break down. I've read that leaving it alone will compost it in a year. With browns to feed itself to, it shouldn't take that long.

That sounds like a plan, we have close to the same climate so it should work.

Thanks