Chicken poo compost/fertilizer.

[Doodle2U]

So, I understand that the contents of the droppings tray and all the Easibed/droppings from the run floor go in the compost bin and after 3 months, the best compost in the world is produced. So far, so good.

The thing is, I've now been informed that chicken poo creates loads of notrogen which can 'burn' vegetables trying to grow in it. Is this right? I'm also informed I should be adding something that sounds like 'bokashi' to either the compost bin or the chicken's food. Is this right? What is it?

Can someone in the know please give me a quick explanation & tell me what I'm supposed to be doing?

ta!

nitrogen

I'm in the same situation as you - one week in to enjoying delicious free range eggs! My girls have experienced mealworms today from wilko's - they are mad for them!

Try the omlet forum, lots of information there

I've just put poo directly onto my currant bushes, but new sprouts won't like the poo until rotted, so the rest goes onto the compost heap.

What hens do you have?

omg am so jealous, I've just looked at your lovely cube piccies - I have an eglu in the veggie patch at present (but will have to think of a method to protect the veg).

Are they all ginger rangers? I have a ginger ranger and a miss pepperpot.

watered down chicken poo is great fot tomato plants

tbh we've put most of our chook poo in the composter along with bedding veg grass cutting etc and fire ashes.. and it seems to rot down well.. and so far hasn't been a problem with our veg when we used the compost.. had a great harvest of beans, tomatoes, potatos, leeks, brussels and salads last season.. and that was with using our compost.
I'm probably doing it all wrong.. but the crops seem just fine and dandy

Hi Bramble - I have 2 gingernuts and 1 pepperpot (she's in charge!).

I do read the Omlet forum TBH but I've found asking on here is the quickest way to advice, often from people with loads more experience than me AND with more common sense and not so quick to go suggesting spending more money on, oftentimes, unecessary stuff! Everyone on this particular MN topic is ace!

Right BCNS, if it's worked OK for you, so far, without adding anything special, I'll try the same. Ta!

Hi Doodle - my pepperpot is still quite nervous, the gingernut is definitely top of the pecking order. I'm wondering if I can introduce another girl later this year ...

I'm still at the obsessive chicken watching stage - I have a chair in the veg plot! I'm not sure if this stage ever wears off!

Well I'm going to try it MF. We're only growing potato, beans & peas this year (long story), so if me spuds shrivel and me beans do a runner

and a cup with chickens on for making my special chicken watching cuppa. mumble mumble. pmsl!!!!

still wondering what to plant this year. A combo of a neighbour's horse manure and the chickens' offerings may end up in Jack's beanstalk!

Fresh chicken manure will burn plants, so it needs to be composted, when it will be fine. If you spread it on the ground now, a lit of the nitrogen will be washed away before spring. Use it in compost or cover it/dig it in. You can prepare a trench/pit and fill it with layers of manure/vegetable peelings/wet newspaper etc, cover it with a bit of compost in the spring then use it for beans, pumpkins, cucumbers, etc. Don;t use it on root crops.