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[maggiesfarm]

Hi folks

 

Just after some advice re chicken poo and compost. I line my hut with a good quality broadsheet then layer wood shavings on top. At the moment I'm picking the poo (yee haaa!!) out and throwing the paper and shavings away. Should I just dump it all in the compost bin ?

 

Is it just me or is there something therapeutic about poo gathering ............

 

Mags

[cluckbok]

Hi ya,

 

I would have thought it could all go in the compost bin, would be easier than pooh picking

[Boybeck]

I've been putting the chicken poo around my roses. I wonder if it will make a difference this year... we shall see!

[quickcluck]

I used to chuck all mine in together, but found that it didn't break down particularly quickly even with acelerater so have gone back to doing a bit of both

[Larkspurs]

We've just been chucking it all in but we haven't kick started the compost bin yet. It's really dry and not doing much, so we are going to moisten it. Here's a couple of links that we've found useful.

http://www.safegardening.co.uk/StartingCompostHeap.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/soil_makecompost2.shtml

[Stevie]

I empty the poo tray straight onto the borders and with all this wet weather recently-it breaks down very fast.

 

By late summer i should have 15ft Triffids growing with amount of fertilizer in soil...

[maggiesfarm]

Thanks for this.

 

My concern is that like quickcluck says, it wont break down quickly and we'll be left with a porridge of wood shavings that I will then have to "sift".

[Larkspurs]

You can help accelerate the process (as long as you have the right balance of stuff anyway) by adding a thin layer of bokashi bran to the mix.