| 1 | A Brief Intro to Composting
Types of Composting The first question many beginners ask is 'What is the best bin? The first question should be, what do you want to do? Look at what materials you want to get rid of or have access to, and how much compost you want or need. |
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| 2 | Interbay Mulch
There has been much posted on the forums about a soil building method known as Interbay Mulch. It is a method developed by a site coordinator at the Interbay P-Patch in Seattle and has recently been featured in an article in Organic Gardening. The P- |
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| 3 | Salmonella risk from fresh chicken manure?
• Posted by: paulns NS zone 6a on Thu, Jun 26, 08 at 17:04
• 34 follow-ups, last one posted on Sat, Dec 29, 12 at 12:30
A couple of weeks ago, impatient for the lettuce transplants to grow fast this year in our sandy soil, I decided to try an experiment. I put down a thin line of more or less fresh chicken poop/wood shavings bedding about six inches away, and very |
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| 4 | chicken manure from commercial farm
• Posted by: henshaw21 7 on Fri, Jan 27, 12 at 11:01
• 20 follow-ups, last one posted on Fri, Feb 10, 12 at 12:39
Hi. I have access to chicken manure from a local farmer who raises chickens commercially (ie a large chicken house, thousands of chickens in a single house; not to be confused with a farmer who has a few chickens in a coup simply to get eggs). My |
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| 5 | Composting Chicken Manure?
• Posted by: jungleexplorer 7 on Mon, Dec 24, 12 at 14:06
• 15 follow-ups, last one posted on Fri, Dec 28, 12 at 23:13
I have a large chicken flock and as a result I get a lot of chicken manure. I know that chicken manure is really hot and must be composted before use. I was wondering what would be the best way to compost chicken manure, how long it takes to com |
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| 6 | composting chicken manure in the city
• Posted by: civ_IV_fan 6a on Tue, Jun 7, 11 at 8:21
• 14 follow-ups, last one posted on Tue, Jun 14, 11 at 12:20
I have a friend who keeps chickens in the country and will give me however much chicken manure i want. I will probably taken thirty or forty gallons worth, or whatever i can fit in my station wagon in buckets. I want to compost it in my backyard |
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| 7 | Chicken Poo?
• Posted by: peacekneads on Thu, Feb 25, 10 at 19:11
• 13 follow-ups, last one posted on Mon, May 9, 11 at 18:24
Hi, I have 3 lovely hens, and I keep their coop filled with wood shavings. They then leave their poo on the shavings, and I empty it out every-so-often and put in fresh shavings. My question is.. can I use these shavings to help my soil? a |
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| 8 | Chicken Bedding
• Posted by: Andredep none on Tue, Jun 12, 12 at 0:30
• 9 follow-ups, last one posted on Tue, Jun 19, 12 at 10:12
I have a lot of hot chicken bedding and am wondering if there are any ways to speed up the time it takes to compost it. I would like to use it this summer in my gardens. Thanks Follow-Up Postings: RE: Chicken Bedding Posted by: |
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| 9 | Planting veggies around a pile of chicken bedding: E.coli concern
• Posted by: nick_b79 4/5 Southeast MN on Tue, Jun 5, 12 at 16:29
• 9 follow-ups, last one posted on Tue, Jun 12, 12 at 14:52
Hello, I have a question regarding some compost I'm making. Last year we butchered our flock of chickens (they were getting old and egg production had fallen way off). Last fall, I emptied the coop of all it's straw bedding into the fenced-in |
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| 10 | Wood ash mixed with Chicken Poop for Vegies
• Posted by: highwaygardener none on Tue, Nov 8, 11 at 19:21
• 7 follow-ups, last one posted on Sun, Nov 13, 11 at 20:33
So for the past two years, we've been putting in wood ash from our wood stove, which we burn a lot, and also the manure from our six chickens. We've never used the compost (had some other things going on), just tossed it around once in a great wh |
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| 11 | How do I fix soil that used to be an old chicken run?
• Posted by: riley17 5 on Mon, Apr 4, 11 at 22:30
• 6 follow-ups, last one posted on Mon, Apr 11, 11 at 21:26
I'm renting a place that has a chicken coop with an attached run that is bare dirt that had a crust on top from all of the poo. Since my birds are on pasture and I don't need the run I was thinking of trying to improve the soil and turn it into a |
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| 12 | Chicken compost question.
I have never used chicken manure before and I was hoping you guys could tell me what you like or don't like about it? * If you buy a bag of chicken compost, do you still have to worry if it is |
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| 13 | Horse or Chicken compost
• Posted by: kamroot CA on Sun, Apr 3, 11 at 22:51
• 5 follow-ups, last one posted on Fri, Jul 15, 11 at 7:01
Hi We live in a house which already has a lot of plants (flowers and fruits) and has an area for planting tomatoes and other vegetables. I have used artificial fertilizer in the past but after reading a lot of posts here, I have started to won |
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| 14 | chicken manure in lasagna garden
• Posted by: charleney 8a PNW on Sat, Aug 27, 11 at 14:41
• 3 follow-ups, last one posted on Tue, Aug 30, 11 at 18:56
Friend has all kinds of (she says) composted chicken manure. very poor soil on south side of house. She is handicapped and I would suggest the cardboard, manure to her, but how deep can she put it in a sheet (under cardboard) and let it sit al |
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| 15 | Chicken manure & wood shavings
• Posted by: ohioveggies on Fri, Oct 7, 11 at 17:51
• 4 follow-ups, last one posted on Sun, Oct 9, 11 at 6:31
I have a pile from this year and I want to put it on my garden beds that wont be used until the spring. Will this be sufficient time for it to cure so its safe in the spring? I will top with leaves and grass also for winter. Follow-Up Posti |
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| 16 | My garden is dying!
• Posted by: terriemac ca on Thu, May 10, 12 at 17:12
• 74 follow-ups, last one posted on Sat, Jun 16, 12 at 22:15
I�ve been composting as long as I�ve been gardening. We put in raised beds 3 years ago and the garden has gone from lush and productive to scrawny and weak. It�s only 80 degrees outside but I have to use shade cloth because everything wilts |
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| 17 | chicken manure
• Posted by: newtoremodeling 6b on Tue, May 14, 13 at 13:39
• 2 follow-ups, last one posted on Wed, May 15, 13 at 13:51
We have 6 chickens and are a bit clueless about composting their manure. The droppings are mixed with whole leaves and have been sitting in a trash can for about 6 months. There are some holes in the can but I am afraid not enough air/ water gets |
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| 18 | Too much chicken manure-Now what?
• Posted by: foodeefish z8SC on Mon, Apr 15, 13 at 21:36
• 2 follow-ups, last one posted on Wed, Apr 17, 13 at 13:14
I have a 3 compost bin setup and the first one is filled with some leaves and Horse stall shavings/manure. The 2nd one is full of just Chicken Manure and the 3rd is 1/2 full of just chicken Manure. Each bin is 5x5x5- big bins. I have access t |
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| 19 | building a large composting area from scratch
• Posted by: emepro 7 on Sun, Jan 20, 13 at 14:04
• 16 follow-ups, last one posted on Sat, Feb 2, 13 at 9:55
Hi all, I have read some of the details on composting, such as green vs brown. But, I am still unsure how to start. We got chickens this summer, shortly after we moved into a new place. We have one acre with grass and trees. We are going |
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