Chicken poop and newspaper

[muttley1]

Hi there,

my OH keeps 4 chickens and they do a neat arrangement of overnight poops on newspaper.
I'm considering making a trench and burying this every few days, about a foot deep. It might well improve the soil but will I need to add lime in the winter to counter the acidity of the poop?

Soil is clay, not acidic and currently rock hard!

thanks

Bryan

[chris]

It's alkaline, rather than acidic - can you compost it anywhere? A trench is fine, but are you going to cover it each time?

I wrap mine in parcels of newspaper and put them in my daleks- then the eBay layer tends to be browns, it works quite well - the compost is great once it's all rotted down.


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[muttley1]

Hi,
yep I was going to cover each as I went along. I'm currently using the dalek composter, kitchen peelings go in too. I'm adding a spadefull of lime every couple of weeks and a can of water each week.

[Two_Sheds]

Burying it is not the same as composting it, and you won't get as good results. Composting organisms tend to be above ground, not below the soil