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[Snoxy]

Hi

 

Has anyone hired a drop door skip to get rid of their chicken run waste...mostly rotted/damp straw and poo?

 

I am in Dunstable, Bedfordshire area.

 

Thank you

[JM]

I tend to compost mine (although I use Aubiose and not straw) - or if I have a glut (!) I advertise on Freecycle.

 

Jill

[The Dogmother]

If I were you, I'd save my money, bag it up and put it on Freecycle - people fight for the bags of chicken waste when I clean out the run!

[Willow]

Can't you give it away ? Freegle or put a notice up at your local allotments, note into your local garden club etc. With people just getting back into gardening it should go easily. I know Cinnamon regularly gives away surplus on our local freegle group. Mine all goes into one of the 5 compost heaps and turns the kitchen and garden waste to 'Geoff Hamilton' level compost

 

Skips are so expensive and such a waste to dump such great compost accelerator

[Egluntyne]

I give mine away to allotmenteers.

[Snoxy]

Thank you...

 

Just looked up my local freecycle...just wondering what you advertise your chicken waste as...mine is mostly old straw with chicken droppings too.

[The Dogmother]

Just list it as chicken manure, that'll do the trick.

 

Mine is taken away by friends with lotties - I just ring them up and leave it outside in sacks.

[Snoxy]

Thank you

 

I don't have any friends with allotments as far as I know

 

I guess rubble sacks are pretty strong...so will get a supply of those

 

Will start digging asap and put my ad on Freecycle

 

Thank you everyone for your suggestions

[The Dogmother]

If you use Aubiose, then the sacks from that are ideal

[Snoxy]

Put an ad on my local Freecycle and got my first taker for manure

[migsy]

I've loaded up my green (garden waste) bin with it and the Council has taken it away.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

We had a notice with new dates for bin collections from our Council recently. It now says animal bedding isn't not allowed .

 

I give my excess to my neighbours .

[welovemarmite]

If I were you, I'd save my money, bag it up and put it on Freecycle - people fight for the bags of chicken waste when I clean out the run!

 

 

i gave up putting mine on freecycle as no one ever wanted it!!

[Jools]

I think it depends where you are. I can't give it away because it's very rural here and anyone who wants manure really is spoiled for choice. Fortunately I can use most of mine on the garden and when I've got too much (usually late summer-early winter when I'm using my aviary for chicks and growers) I hide it in the brown bin between the layers of green waste that I don't have room to compost because I'm too busy composting chicken run waste.

[Old Speckled Hen]

I think it depends where you are. I can't give it away because it's very rural here and anyone who wants manure really is spoiled for choice. Fortunately I can use most of mine on the garden and when I've got too much (usually late summer-early winter when I'm using my aviary for chicks and growers) I hide it in the brown bin between the layers of green waste that I don't have room to compost because I'm too busy composting chicken run waste.

 

Me too

Mind you I tip my recycling guys at Christmas and they take all sorts now

[migsy]

I doubt the bin men in Manchester would know it was chicken waste. Not many chooks around here. And yes, I also cover it with some plant matter.

[Barkisland]

We compost ours, and bag any surplus up to take to mum in law's. She grows loads of tomatoes in the summer and sells them at her gate for charity - apparently the tomatoes have been incredible since using our girl's gifts. Chicken poo is marvellous stuff - MIL calls it 'hen gold'.

[scarlettohara]

I put an ad on Gumtree yesterday and already had 2 replies asking how much I had and can they collect next weekend

[Snoxy]

Had 2 collectors so far...the driveway was half full with blue rubble sacks yesterday morning (70 in total) and now I have just 22 left...and 3 more takers

 

So glad I posted here...I have saved a small fortune

 

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO SUGGESTED GUM TREE AND FREECYCLE

[Jools]

So in a roundabout kind of way ...... where there's muck, there's brass!

[The Dogmother]

I guess so; A friend had people up at her stables yesterday, shovelling horse manure into sacks. They even offered to pay her for it; she's just glad to have the midden go down a bit.

[Jools]

I used to wander round the field adjoining our old house with a wheel barrow and spade collecting horse muck for the compost heap. I only had five bantams in those days though.

[Snoxy]

I can picture it now

[scarlettohara]

Got someone coming who wants as much as he can fit in his car I will be mainly shovelling you know what for the next few days - I have a huge mountain to bag up I hope people realise there is straw and shavings in it as well

[Sam]

I hope people realise there is straw and shavings in it as well

 

I thought that! Wouldn't want people to be disappointed because my sacks of "chicken poo" is actually mainly wood shavings. I'm sure its still a good fertilizer though