I have been the keeper of numerous chicken ladies (and some lads) for quite a few years now. The first few years, I did the unthinkable--disposing of the chicken manure into a forgotten pile.
Now older and wiser am I! Using a dog pooper scooper, I collect my hens messes and call them blesses. Added these chicken poop balls to an assortment of plants---steel containers filled with bamboo, potted birch and cypress trees. Has not been any dreaded fertilizer burn-- just add a few clumps every few months! You will never have seen such verdant green.
The excess poop--is now collected in a large flower pot. And the wind delivered to me a vagrant dill seed. Planting itself happily in its found vat of crap, and blossoming into a gigantic dill plant. The healthy herb had plenty of manure, enough to share with a pumpkin plant neighbor --another purveyor of the finest poop.
Never doubt that a shit show will grow great things!
