I have a few one tonne builders bags full of poultry manure from the smallholding where my veggie plot is.
Unfortunately its a mix of droppings, wood shavings and shredded paper and doesn't seem to be heating up at all (like horse muck and straw might).
I'm fairly sure that because of the wood shavings it will take a looong time to rot down and may be a couple of years before I can dig it in to the soil.
Does anyone have any experience of the stuff and is there anything I could add (or do) to speed up its rotting?
cheers
Bridbod
Yes.
layer it with horse poo. That'll get it going.
Cheers Mr Yokel, I'll give it a try
Being not very smart, I can't figure out what its missing.....Nitrogen in the chicken poo, Carbon in the paper and wood shavings, moisture and air all seem to be there ???
we used to layer ours with grass clippings in a dalek type compost bin, worked well :)
Quote from: bridbod on May 13, 2011, 20:33:08
Cheers Mr Yokel, I'll give it a try
Being not very smart, I can't figure out what its missing.....Nitrogen in the chicken poo, Carbon in the paper and wood shavings, moisture and air all seem to be there ???
too much brown material (paper and wood) and not enough green material (poo). Needs more green material. As the poster above said, lots of grass clippings would also work, and easier to get than horse poo.
Chicken muck does not heat up, but be aware that if it's free range it could have a lot of nettle seeds in it. They love nettles.
I have wood shavings along with straw from my chickens. It's just chucked on open compost heap with everything else from the garden and kitchen - all rots down beautifully on 2 year rota (much quicker in bins).