Chicken Manure Compost

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It was a good day to turn the big compost bin and add some of the chicken muck that needed to be removed. Compost is a mixture of carbon (dry brown materials) and nitrogen (green materials and food waste) that break down to create nutrient-loaded goodness in the form of a soil ammendment. Turning it often, and moving it around helps add oxygen to the mixture and will help break things down quicker.Plus you can add your chicken manure (what I call chicken muck), which is too strong to be use dire

Keeping the chicken run and coop clean and smell free is a whole job. We use a “deep litter” method in our run. I add in mulch regularly and they break it down. Every few weeks I go in and pull back the top layers of mulch to get down to the composted material. So far I’ve been using the compost in my back areas of the garden. This works for us. There are so many different materials you can use in your run like sand, gravel, hemp etc. The most important thing you can do for smell is keep the run