chicken poop

[razer]

i have just started to grow my own fruit an veg i have raspbarrys strawberrys corn on the cob spudds onions carrots spouts and i also have 6 chickens i have not started a compost pile yet butt cud i use the chicken poop mixed with water and poor all over my crop i am new to all this but i cud do with as much help u can give me thanks ryan

[DavidT]

Ryan, put the manure in a hessian bag and soak in a butt of water for a week. Use this manure water on the ground, DO NOT get it on the plants.

[lazydog]

we used to do that with farmyard manure and ended up with "baby bio" IIRC made a good tomato food

[razer]

iv just bin given a big plastic drum cud i fill that with water and rain water and put the poop in that and say evry 4 weeks cud i emty the left over poop at the bottom ov the drum in to a compost pile.

[tony Sirett]

i have a water butt and once a month i 1/2 fill it with my excess chicken muck, i leave it in for a week then out as much as i can and leave it to get topped up by rain water, i tend to water the ground rather than the leaf / plant