Did you know that the average chicken poops e roughly every twenty to thirty minutes? That means they can do up to fifty droppings per day! And for someone who has close to forty chickens, that means im dealing with about one thousand four hundred portions of chicken yuckness per week. So what do I do with all that poo?

• You can put your dirty wood shavings in your compost or sprinkle it through out your garden bed (the worms will help it decompose and also add organic matter to your gardens soil.
• Once you have cleaned the chicken coop, you should put all the manure in a pile and then put in the compost. I turn my compost weekly
• Once you have had the compost for about 6 months to a year you could either sell it or you could put it in your garden to boost your plants growth rate with all the nutrients in it
• Lastly I guess you could put it in the bin but you would be wasting all the potential benefits.

Honestly, I kind of think chicken poo is pretty awesome. It is perfect for compost because it provides a slow-release source of macro and micro-nutrients, and it also works as a soil amendment. It does this because it contains High levels of Nitrogen, Potassium, phosphorus, and calcium, and is also rich in organic matter. And if you don’t have a garden, you can sell it to other people who do. Good luck and happy chicken keeping, see you next week.