How to Compost Chicken Manure from Half-Way Farm

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How to turn your chicken run into a compost bin! Who has time to turn over compost. "Not I" said the cat. Parisienne Farmgirl describes how to use your chicken run as a compost pile letting the chickens do the work for you. For more things Farm and French visit www.ParisienneFarmgirl.com Don't forget to subscribe to this channel and like us on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/angela.owenreed?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/pages/Half-Way-Farm/340690702715826

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Wonderful

you stoed my chickens

I was told I needed to compost the bedding separately in order to avoid a build up of parasites? Also being that the chickens are still actively on the run daily, wouldn't scooping it out onto the garden burn the plants?

GOOD POST GIRLS...I LOVE IT...

I was wondering whether I can produce the compost by laying it on a bed from a piece of tin and surrounding it with 4 pieces of 2x10 wooded planks? can it lay on a cement/metal foundation or it is better to lay on the ground?

for convenience purposes I would like to produce the compost near my house, where I don't have a lawn, by putting the aforementioned components on a cement foundation.

please advise what ration should we use between>> chicken manure : grass clippings : wooden sawdust? and please advise whether it is better to expose the compost pile on a lot of sun or it composts better under a shade?

thanks!

Well this is my favorite thing right now.

hello you are so wise to let your chickens do the work for you. How adorable your babies are. I too am using the deep litter composting method but have heard that the hay holds more moisture. I use leaves and just realized I have an unlimited supply of leaves in all the woods that surround me. But I have to buy hay, but is so much easier to use. I just have to take the time and energy to go out into the woods and collect the leaves that are already just teaming with microbes and bugs the chickens love. Thnx for sharing.

Loved it! What a beautiful strong Mother/farmer and Family. Great advice too!

wheat straw! is that what i see? i've been in southern alabama for about 5 years, and the only straw available is pine straw...which is nothing at all like Real Straw.