How long before I can use chicken manure?

Hi All,

In October I covered the compost heap to rot Down for use in the raised veg beds this spring.

I usually then put all the kitchen waste etc in old compost bags and start off the heap again when it have topped up gge beds etc.

I now have chickens and have been doing the same with their poop and bedding. Will it be ok to use this year in my Brassicz bed or should I put it in the new heap?

Rusty

 

Personally, I would leave it one year.

It will be interesting to read what others advise. If it could be used within a year, I could be doing a lot more compost mulching.

 

LOL. Chicken Manure. My dad, had chickens and a wonderful veggie garden. The chicken manure pile would be over on the side, piled high, never covered, not fussed with. During the time of the harvest of any veggies, should one be a little over ripe, or an animal have gotten it, he would simply toss that veggie on the chicken manure pile. So now this is the summer and fall, now winter comes around in Ohio, tons of snow and very cold, Zero F and below at times. The following spring, on that unfussed with manure pile, you see sprouting of the veggies that was thrown there last year. Moral of the story, use it anytime you wish. And just before winter, I would top dress the soil with some lime, makes the veggies sweeter for next year.