How to Compost Chicken Manure
Learn how to compost chicken manure so that you can put it to use in vegetable patches, flower beds, and even to grow perennials and trees.
Composting chicken manure allows you to use your flock’s waste in vegetable or flower beds or to feed perennials like berry bushes and trees. But fresh manure is too “hot” to put directly onto a garden unless it’s just a drop here and there from chickens enjoying the shade and fresh foliage. This means it has so much nitrogen that it will burn the plants rather than nourish them. Also, chickens’ omnivorous diet makes them more likely to carry microbes which can sicken humans.
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