Chicken poo as fertilizer

[CarlaCo]

Has anyone successfully (hopefully easily) used their chicken's poop as a fertilizer or their lawn? I'm thinking of making a quick manure tea with recent poo using about 1-10 poo to water ratio in a five gallon bucket and then using the liquid after a couple days to spread on my lawn using my tank pump sprayer. Haven't worked out the details yet and wondering who in Backyard Community may be doing that sort of thing successfully and what method they use. I want it specifically for the lawn.

I'm peeved at Scotts weed and feed that I have relied on for years as they have lessened the amount per bag and increased the price (hugely), then adding insult to injury, I found it is far less effective on weeds than previously. I'm going to treat my weeding and feeding separately now and hoped the chicken poo mix could save me money.

Thanks ahead to responders.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Has anyone successfully (hopefully easily) used their chicken's poop as a fertilizer or their lawn? I'm thinking of making a quick manure tea with recent poo using about 1-10 poo to water ratio in a five gallon bucket and then using the liquid after a couple days to spread on my lawn using my tank pump sprayer. Haven't worked out the details yet and wondering who in Backyard Community may be doing that sort of thing successfully and what method they use. I want it specifically for the lawn.

I'm peeved at Scotts weed and feed that I have relied on for years as they have lessened the amount per bag and increased the price (hugely), then adding insult to injury, I found it is far less effective on weeds than previously. I'm going to treat my weeding and feeding separately now and hoped the chicken poo mix could save me money.

Thanks ahead to responders.

Chicken manure is an excellent source of nutrients. Its nitrogen and phosphorus content is at least twice as high as other farm manures such as cow manure.
It is hot. Too much will burn grass and plants. That's why I mix into a compost pile.

 

[Perris]

I use it, delivered in the easiest way possible: the chickens deposit it themselves as they range across it. They do an occasional bit of weeding too, nibbling the young growth, flowers and seeds of weeds they find en route. And they scarify as they go too, removing moss. Distributed in this way and quantity, fresh chicken manure does not burn the grass or skew the balance of soil nutrients.

 

[Penpal]

You can also use it to feed red wigglers (worms) or black soldier fly larvae. They break down the manure into compost. You add anything you would normally put in a compost. The worms/larvae you feed to your chickens.

 

[Loving my girls]

I collect all my household compostables and chicken poo as it is produced (in the pouallier, I don’t scour the garden for it) and leave it for a year.
Each March I put the finished compost (Mar 25 I will use compost finished in Mar 24) in my potager.
I don’t know how long it takes for chicken compost to go from “ooh don’t use it when it’s too fresh” to “yummy that’ll make good spuds” so I allow a year for it to rot down.

It hasn’t let me down so far.

 

[Loving my girls]

You can also use it to feed red wigglers (worms) or black soldier fly larvae. They break down the manure into compost. You add anything you would normally put in a compost. The worms/larvae you feed to your chickens.

Eek living wiggly worms

 

[CarlaCo]

These are all wonderful answers. I have a few physical limitations and I was hoping to deliver the goods as a liquid fertilizer, I think they call it manure tea? Since I am able to carry a gallon tank around easily.
I already compost most of it, with a pile of yard waste an kitchen waste so I have access to nice soil when we need it. I have a "Dump Here" sign and a "Dig Here" sign for two piles. I turn over the Dump side in the spring and switch the signs.
It would be too laborious to try to spread compost over the lawn. But I know I could handle liquid. I was thinking of to 5 gallon buckets and making holes in one and placing that inside the other then using some amount of poo in water and letting it leach out for I don't know a few days, weeks? No clue. Then when I want to fertilize lifting out the poo strainer and voila liquid fertilizer.

 

[CarlaCo]

I use it, delivered in the easiest way possible: the chickens deposit it themselves as they range across it. They do an occasional bit of weeding too, nibbling the young growth, flowers and seeds of weeds they find en route. And they scarify as they go too, removing moss. Distributed in this way and quantity, fresh chicken manure does not burn the grass or skew the balance of soil nutrients.

My birds can only free range when I'm available to babysit them to keep them from my neighbor's property (who complained). We have an acre so fencing is too expensive to consider. I love when they are out though.