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Hello,

I know on my allotment i can have a compost heap of pretty much any description or contents .... My question is, i keep chickens at home, they are on woodchips, i would like to take some (woodchips&poop) down to the allotment and compost them, but how long would it need to 'stand' and if the woodchips have not decomposed would there ba a problem in digging them into the ground.

We are allowed but not recomended to keep any livestock down there as they have in pervious years been pinched. However i'm considering to make a pen and take a couple of hens down with me while i'm about just to have a bit of a dig about (onsite fertiliser )

Nat

I would have thought that the compost would need to stand for at least six months, I would not have thought there would be aproblem with the wood chips not being broken down yet. Good mulch!

I put my chicken house 'stuff' onto my empty beds at this time of the year and just leave it. By next spring it has broken down enough to plant into without any problems.

Like the idea of taking the hens down to the plot with you! Teach them to walk on a harness and lead!

Sounds good to me. I put the rabbit's straw, wood shavings and droppings on my compost heap. It helps keep the flies off anything exposed too

Have considered taking the rabbit to the lottie with me as well as her run but she can be a complete wotsit to pick up and I have enough bruises and scratches. I probably wouldn't be able to get her back in the car and would return to find she had gone walk about I would not be popular

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