Chicken compost...ammonia smell

[SeanInVa]

Originally Posted by nathan125

I gave the manure a solid year and added it to my raised beds a month ago. So far doing fine, plants havent been burned. The ★★★★ smell is also gone. Thanks for the help everyone.

Glad to hear its working out well.

We add "fresh" poop (from scraping off the poop boards in the coop) in the fall and turn it under with a garden fork in our raised bed. It's good to go by the spring. I've not had to fertilize at all yet and no burns.