Solitary chicken - need advice

[welovemarmite]

what do you do with it - we have quite a bit as we have a walk in run!!!!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I put some in the compost bins (I now have 2) but I recently started putting it straight onto the flowerbeds. It makes them look very tidy (it hides the weeds ).

[Olly]

compost bin, it makes fantastic compost and breaks down really quickly.

 

alternatively dig a trench where you want next year's runner beans to grow, and start filling it up with aubiose.

[bellekatz]

we put ours on Freecycle - you know "Chicken Compost and bedding - great for compost" I always have more than enough takers!!

[Cooks]

we put ours on Freecycle - you know "Chicken Compost and bedding - great for compost" I always have more than enough takers!!

 

same here, I never have a problem, it goes the day I list it.

[Space Chick]

I save the hemcore from the poo trays for the compost, the WIR soiled bedding I take down the councils green recycling centre

[chickweed]

dig a trench where you want next year's runner beans to grow, and start filling it up with aubiose.

What a brill idea

[Egluntyne]

I do what ANH does. It does make the garden look tidy.

[poachedegg]

Ours goes on the borders too.

[Falkor]

I started by Freecycling but now I have three ladies that take it in turns

 

They responded to my first freecycle add and said that they would take as much as I had!

 

I just do a run clean, leave the bags out the front, ping an email and when I get home from work the next day the poop is gone!

 

In fact.....the poo is almost as popular as their eggs!

[chick wiggle]

Funnily enough we just cleaned ours out today. OH put it all on his vegetable beds, flower beds and compost bins. it all went on there and we have quite a large WIR.

[TAJ]

We have 4 compost bins and share it around them, plus deep trench grow stuff on the allotment - the potatoes grown on a trench of this were so much bigger than the others - it is put straight into trench, not composted first.

 

Tracy

[Plum]

I put some in the compost bins (I now have 2) but I recently started putting it straight onto the flowerbeds. It makes them look very tidy (it hides the weeds ).

 

I thought about doing that but what about the flies or do you just do it in Autumn/Winter?

[stoice]

I like the sound of throwing on the borders but have a pooch with a poop fettish and i just know she'd hoover it all up. I like the trench idea though. Has anyone noticed increased foxy attention by spreading it around their garden though?

[Cinnamon]

I am planning to put some between the rows of Garlic I have just planted,as a nutrient & hopefully a weed suppressant too.

It may even work at keeping slugs at bay,as they don't like to go over loose stuff....

 

Have got rid of it on Freecycle too, & I new have a list of contacts who are waiting for it (I have a huge walk in run,so we get very large job lots of it,several times a year)

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I certainly haven't noticed any flies. To be honest the poop is all dried up by the bedding so there are no obvious clumps of it anyway .

[Plum]

Thanks, Do you dig/rake it in or leave it on the surface?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Too lazy to dig it in . Sprinkle and go .

[Plum]

Well I've seen pictures of your borders you've posted. Good enough for me.

[kevtheplumber]

everything goes down the allotment in the bins, looking good now