Chicken Manure Compost

Chicken Manure! 💚Yesterday we picked up our chicken manure from a local farm that we get it from every year. Make sure you have your garden rake and gardening gloves handy for this job. Chicken manure, just like other animal waste, when not fully composted can contain e. coli and other pathogens that we are susceptible to and can make us sick. The composting process kills these bacteria. You will probably have to break up some poop clumps and I personally do not want to do that bare handed. 💚L

No need to break the bank, here’s how you can fill up a garden bed with free materials. - Layer of cardboard direct to ground to prevent weeds - Large rotted logs - Twigs and small branches to fill the gaps - Leaves and garden debris - Subsoil, compost and chicken manure- Final layer organic garden soil mix and worm castings from our worm bin Since we used large logs, this process will take away nitrogen from the soil to break it down. We made sure to feed the soil with compost, fertilizer and w

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It was a good day to turn the big compost bin and add some of the chicken muck that needed to be removed. Compost is a mixture of carbon (dry brown materials) and nitrogen (green materials and food waste) that break down to create nutrient-loaded goodness in the form of a soil ammendment. Turning it often, and moving it around helps add oxygen to the mixture and will help break things down quicker.Plus you can add your chicken manure (what I call chicken muck), which is too strong to be use dire

Keeping the chicken run and coop clean and smell free is a whole job. We use a “deep litter” method in our run. I add in mulch regularly and they break it down. Every few weeks I go in and pull back the top layers of mulch to get down to the composted material. So far I’ve been using the compost in my back areas of the garden. This works for us. There are so many different materials you can use in your run like sand, gravel, hemp etc. The most important thing you can do for smell is keep the run