Here on Lincolns 'Growing Plot' we have a couple of dozen hens, and
cleaning out the pens produces a fair bit of 'Bedding Litter' mostly
wood shavings, with a high amount of smelly droppings, :-( so fairly
strong stuff, now as we are only starting our project, we don't have a
lot of compost, as we have not had a full season yet, at the moment
this bedding is being stacked up, or to put it technically, 'its
thrown into a heap behind the polytunnel'
Suggestions on what to do with it now, and in the future .

Thanks

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says...

Here on Lincolns 'Growing Plot' we have a couple of dozen hens, and
cleaning out the pens produces a fair bit of 'Bedding Litter' mostly
wood shavings, with a high amount of smelly droppings, :-( so fairly
strong stuff, now as we are only starting our project, we don't have a
lot of compost, as we have not had a full season yet, at the moment
this bedding is being stacked up, or to put it technically, 'its
thrown into a heap behind the polytunnel'
Suggestions on what to do with it now, and in the future .

(from 20 years of keeping chickens. We used our chainsaw wood chips in
their shed)

Don't use their bedding fresh on beds, but it's a great compost
activator added in thin layers between green stuff.

Garden/tree contractors may be pleased to have somewhere they can dump
chipped waste without having to pay at the council tip. It's also useful
for garden paths, to suppress weeds and soak up mud.

Janet.

On 27/11/2016 12:51, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

Here on Lincolns 'Growing Plot' we have a couple of dozen hens, and
cleaning out the pens produces a fair bit of 'Bedding Litter' mostly
wood shavings, with a high amount of smelly droppings, :-( so fairly
strong stuff, now as we are only starting our project, we don't have a
lot of compost, as we have not had a full season yet, at the moment
this bedding is being stacked up, or to put it technically, 'its
thrown into a heap behind the polytunnel'
Suggestions on what to do with it now, and in the future .

(from 20 years of keeping chickens. We used our chainsaw wood chips in
their shed)

Don't use their bedding fresh on beds, but it's a great compost
activator added in thin layers between green stuff.

Garden/tree contractors may be pleased to have somewhere they can dump
chipped waste without having to pay at the council tip. It's also useful
for garden paths, to suppress weeds and soak up mud.

Janet.


We used to go each year and clear a local chicken farm's sheds of the
wood shaving bedding, 3 or 4 tons per year, we did used to put it
straight on the beds but you had to be really careful as its a bit like
gunpowder when fresh and would burn plants, it can also alter the
balance of the soil, making the take up of various minerals difficult
for plants, results in strange yellowing of leaves, which is why we
stopped doing it. So as Janet says, best added to your compost heap

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