[Auntie Rain]

My beloved has an old chicken run, used for years, now no longer needed. The 'soil' has always been covered and I was thinking, have I now got a free supply of dried chicken manure....?

If so, am I right in thinking that this is nasty stuff to breath in?

Is there any value in taking up a couple of bags and sprinkling on the raised beds.......

Advice from the collective would be welcome.

AR

[Yorkie]

Others will be along shortly, but I think it's pigeon poo which is the real nasty stuff.

If it's not fresh chicken poo, it will be great for veggies.  I think it's high in nitrogen.

[Trillium]

Almost any of the 'flying' poos can be troublesome if inhaled when they're fresh or dusty, so I'd highly recommend using even a cheap surgical type mask or several bandanas over your nose and mouth while you work and all will be fine.

I use both pigeon and chicken poo and always stand upwind when working with them.

[Hamani]

Chicken manure is extremely rick in nitrogen. Too rich infact to be used straight on beds. At it to your compost. It'll act as a brilliant activator.

- Gary.

[Yorkie]

Pelleted chicken poo is used straight on plots without problems.

[Ema]

I would personally add it to a compost bin for a good year bird poo can contain ecoli and salmonella

[Sweetpea C]

The compost from when I had chickens a couple of years ago is absolutely wonderful, really rich. Sadly I haven't got them anymore, they kept escaping and scratching up my neighbours perfect garden so they went to my sisters for the rest of their days