What makes a chicken coop easy to live with?

[ChrisEllis]

Im currently building my vegetable patch, as i have found my ongoing passion for chickens means i have moved the vegetable patch about three time to build something new there like a pen.

 

So instead i thought to build a wooden one literally wooden walls and not dug into the ground - but put on ground that is all turned over.

 

It would be roughly 16cm high, and then obviously roots would grow into the turned over soil beneath.

 

We have been using out compost bin for about 5 months...and at the bottom it isn't yet compost...although, i was wondering what if i took from the bottom (mostly wood shavings filled with lots of poo) and put a third of that down giving the rest of the small vegetable patch to be filled with bagged compost from garden centre? Is this a good idea, as it is decomposing at the moment and will carry on to and has lots of nutrients. Plus it means i spend less on filling it fully with expensive garden compost?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That's kind of what I did last year. The bottom of our compost bins wasn't composted down and was a bit slimy and horrible with loads of flies but I spread it over the raised beds rathern than waste it. Everything grew well in it so it must have been OK .

[ChrisEllis]

Oh that sounds good, I done a lot of building recently, built a new roof for my coop. Bilding this vegetable patch, garden starting to neaten up a bit more now ...need to get my seeds...quick

[Redwing]

we did exactly that Chris and its worked well, the only raised bed we didnt part fill with garden compost was the carrots veg bed which we seived bagged compost in to (took ages... )

[chickencam]

So long as it is partly rotted it should be ok, but keep a good layer of soil over the top, because rotting vegetation can remove nitrogen from the soil.