Dizzy-Deb Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Hi just a quick question regarding this. Do you add to your composter or green recycle bin? I know I can put rabbit/guinea pig shavings/hay/droppings etc into recycle bin or unsure about the chicken stuff. I have been thinking about getting some kind of compost bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeears Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Compost bin for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy-Deb Posted August 22, 2010 Author Share Posted August 22, 2010 Do you get much smell from it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeears Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 No, very little. Mind you, it's not near the house or patio! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 My 'green bin' scheme will take vegetarian pet waste, they say 'e.g. hamster or rabbit' but I guess chickens would also fit that description! I'd get a compost bin though, they don't take up much room and the compost you will get is fabulous, especially if you add grass clippings or soft shrubby cuttings, and if you use aubiose or similar in the run. I have three composters now, one is usually about 12 months old which gives it plenty of time to rot down. Other people have bagged up their chicken waste and got rid of it on Freecycle or Freegle though - it's popular with gardeners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 We've got 2 compost bins, a mesh type box thing and just big a pile behind the greenhouse Anything that won't fit in, and big WIR cleans go in the green bags for either the council, or friends/family with veggie plots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy-Deb Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 Picked up a compost bin this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcatz Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I chuck most of the used wood chippings straight onto the veggie patch, then some in the compost bin. My compost bin gets full otherwise. The wood shavings and poo go in the compost bin or around the roses. It doesn't smell at all and the roses and veg have been great this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krysia Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 last winter we emptied the trays on the rhubarb plant as it didnt do much last yr. this yr it flowered!!! I have never seen a rhuard flower! we left it collected the seeds and I have a tray full of baby rhubarb plants now too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 We compost it and have 4 compost bins... We have one just for food bits, grass clippings and kitchen s"Ooops, word censored!"s that we never but chicken poo into as the chickens enjoy scratching it up! Then one of them is designated as chicken poo and gets used until it fills-we tend to mix the waste from each of the bins to give it a better mixture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcatz Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 last winter we emptied the trays on the rhubarb plant as it didnt do much last yr. this yr it flowered!!! I have never seen a rhuard flower! we left it collected the seeds and I have a tray full of baby rhubarb plants now too! wow, I'm going to try this too. My rhubarb has been rubbish this year. I've only had enough to pick the stems once and it has never flowered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krysia Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 if you want lots of rubabrb cut the flower stem off, the plant puts so much into the flowers that it neglets the fruit bit, the other other 2 did really well, but the one that flowered didnt produce much. we kept waiting for the flowerd to open and it was really disappointing in the end. Nice to grow my own though from my own seeds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
