Question about using chicken manure....

Honestly? I'd wait until the chicken manure is completely composted - i.e. you can no longer see actual individual chicken poops. Chicken manure IS considered a "hot" manure, & I would (& didn't) take an chances with it. The only manure that I know of that's safe to use right away (& I've used it that way) is rabbit manure, so long as it's not mixed with rabbit litter that has a lot of urine in it.

I have found that within a day or two you can't see individual poops. Like most bird poop it is usually soft and quickly falls apart. When a hen is broody and only leaves the nest once a day to take care of business (eat, drink and poop), they will have a large poop you can actually see. Part of it is white- nitrogen and the other is brown- food waste.The nitrogen is actually what our bodies would mix with water to form urine. Reptiles have something similar. Both types of animals release wastes from a single opening- the cloaca. 

In the chicken house part of the coop, where I put wood pellets and shavings, the chicken waste quickly turns into a powdery, soil like substance I put on the beds in the fall. I also add it to pots and grow bags when the plants need a boost. In the chicken pen it goes right into the soil, which is full of worms. This I dig out and put on the compost pile, although I have also used it directly on the beds as they are prepared for the winter. I add a thick layer of hay over it which is mostly broken down over the winter. In the spring I do a weeding and put new hay mulch down to get started. If I neglected to add the chicken fertilizer in the fall, I will add it before putting down the hay mulch in the spring.

Indeed! gianna,