Chicken Poop for my worms

[MrKnotty]

I have a flock of chickens and I'm wondering if I need to compost their poop before I feed it to my worms or can I just scoop it up out the barn and put it in the worms home?

 

[ShLUbY]

I have a flock of chickens and I'm wondering if I need to compost their poop before I feed it to my worms or can I just scoop it up out the barn and put it in the worms home?

never done this, but i would always compost first, and then put it through. Light amounts might be okay, but I'd worry about it being too hot for the bin raw in any decent quantity. FWIW, I even compost my outdoor compost through the worm bin, and they LOVE compost; the next day or two they go nuts when I put a layer down.

 

[stoned-monkey]

Chicken poo has too much ammonia for worms. Compst first.

If you havent found it yet backyardchickens.com is a good source of info.

 

[Richard Drysift]

Compost it and use it as fertilizer in your mix or layered containers directly. The worms will consume it but they prefer fruit, veggies, and leaf/paper scraps. Composted chicken manure is like the best fertilizer you can use; a good source of fast available N. Only need a about a palm sized amount in each container to feed plants thru most of bloom cycle...good shit.

 

[Dmannn]

Chicken manure is easy, if it has been allowed to dry out.. mixed with rice hulls, grain chaff, Oak leaves, or RICH soil. turn it several times in the MONTHES before use. AACT helps convert ammonia to simple Nitrogen..worms will go nuts and so will your plants AND it lasts all season. IF it stinks like chicken manure, its not ready. Best used with flood, drain soil (smart spots) IME. Good luck man!

 

[Rasta Roy]

I tried to run some worms off chicken manure before, even composted it's not something they did well with.

But like the others said, composted chicken manure itself is a great all purpose fertilizer. No need to make it into worm poop.

 

[cindysid]

I have a huge 250 gallon stock tank that has evolved from life on a shrimp boat, to life as a koi pond, and now finally, rust holes and all it's a worm bin. It sits in shade under a big mango tree in my backyard. I put in chicken manure (dried) on one end about every 3 months, about 2 gallons. I mix it in with straw, leaves and some green material.

It heats up things on that end for a few days, but along with worms, my bin also has soldier fly larvae, centipedes, roaches, and a myriad of other creatures constantly chewing away. Within a week they're into it, and within a month, it's completely broken down. I also add rabbit manure every couple of weeks, along with lots of different fruit, vegetables and leaves. We even cut up and put huge trunks of traveler palm in there last year to see what would happen. It was completely broken down within a couple of months.

I was putting my stems and fan leaves in there too, but a neighbor with cancer is eating the fan leaves in salad, so now all that goes to the bin isan occasional stem.

 

[Tyleb173rd]

I have a huge 250 gallon stock tank that has evolved from life on a shrimp boat, to life as a koi pond, and now finally, rust holes and all it's a worm bin. It sits in shade under a big mango tree in my backyard. I put in chicken manure (dried) on one end about every 3 months, about 2 gallons. I mix it in with straw, leaves and some green material.

It heats up things on that end for a few days, but along with worms, my bin also has soldier fly larvae, centipedes, roaches, and a myriad of other creatures constantly chewing away. Within a week they're into it, and within a month, it's completely broken down. I also add rabbit manure every couple of weeks, along with lots of different fruit, vegetables and leaves. We even cut up and put huge trunks of traveler palm in there last year to see what would happen. It was completely broken down within a couple of months.

I was putting my stems and fan leaves in there too, but a neighbor with cancer is eating the fan leaves in salad, so now all that goes to the bin isan occasional stem.

That sound so awesome ma’am. Keep up the love.