Compsting with Chickens Article a Must Read for Composting Chicken Raisers

Many of us here in the USA are participating in the return to backyard farming and we have already posted one article referencing the Backyard Chickens website’s Welded Wire Chicken Coop discussion. There’s an article in the works about using welded wire to build a compost bin, and this new post in Backyard Chickens Learning Center is an absolutely inspiring one discussing the advantages of having your chickens work the compost pile!

The article contains instructional information such as, “Whether you have a large or small chicken yard, just a couple chickens or hundreds, you can still have chickens help you with your compost.  The best way is to just throw all your compostable materials right into the chicken yard. It will better utilize their manure by incorporating it with the other materials, instead of causing mud, rain runoff and compacted dirt & manure.” as well as information on professionals like Karl Hammer of Vermont Compost Company who, “doesn’t feed any purchased feed to his flock of several hundred chickens. Instead, they free range on his mountains of compost, gleaning all their nutritional food from the compost made from food scraps, cow manure, and hay.”

Read more on the Backyard Chickens website.

Compsting with Chickens Article a Must Read for Composting Chicken Raisers