Chicken bedding question

[jasonm]

A guy I know uses pine shavings for bedding in his coop and cleans it out twice a month. He said he puts it in his garden for fertilizer. Is this okay? Chicken manure has a lot of nitrogen in it. It would seem it would have to be composted for awhile.

[Admin]

I have always been told that it needs to compost for a while before it hits the garden like you said.

[mrchicken]

I would want to compost it.

Chicken poop his very high in nitrogen and pine shavings are acidic.

If you only use a little bit and scatter it well its probably fine. Just make sure it doesn't touch the plant stems !

( I have burned a lot of garden plants by mulching too close to the stem)

[ninedeer]

its just best to compost it or dry it real good.Its just to hot when wet will burn your plants.

[mrchicken]

Whenever you want to mulch or add compost to your estabilished garden try this.

Get a couple pots or buckets of different sizes. Put them over your plants THEN add compost. Keeps it off the leaves and away from the stems. No more burning the leaves or plant stems.

[jasonm]

Thank you all! That's what I figured.