Chicken poo help!!

[LittleGlasswing]

Hi

I've started trying to grow my own veggies in containers this year and as an inexperienced gardner have come up against a few wrong turns but this has got to be my worst one to date. Yesterday I was passing a local farm when I noticed they were selling chicken manure, so I figured, 'hey that'll be good on the veggies' as i've heard chicken poo makes fantastic fertiliser. Me being the impatient git I am, i put it in the tubs with all the veggies yesterday without reading about how to use it first (i figured poo was just poo right?!).
Anyhoo i haven't actually dug it in, ive just put bits on top of the soil and then watered it hoping it will break down into the soil. Now after reading about it i've realised that was a huge mistake. I'm going to remove the bulk of the manure from the pots this morning but i'm a little concerned that after watering some of it into the soil that I may have ruined my vegetable harvest (mainly from risk of disease from the poo???).
The veggies ive used it on are tomatoes, carrots, peppers, strawberries, potatoes and beetroot.
Also (i know this isn't pleasant) some of the poo was a bit green in places. Is that normal or a bad sign?

Any advice on this would be much appreciated.

Many Thanks

Salli x

[Saturna]

Chicken litter does make good fertiliser, we use tons of poultry litter on the farm every year BUT it needs to be used sparingly as it is much more potent than say cow manure, if put on to thick it will actually burn plants off instead of making them grow due to the higher nitrate content in it. You certainly won't have ruined your vegetables through any sort of disease from it so don't worry about that side of things. The green in it just means its been sitting there for a while, the only problem you might find with it compared to the pelleted stuff the garden centres stock is that it will contain lots of weed seeds, particularly stinging nettles and chickweed, garden centre stuff is cooked to kill these off.