misty donkey herder on Nostr: my free range chickens will occasionally go hard at the horse manure compost piles, ...

my free range chickens will occasionally go hard at the horse manure compost piles, but they don’t spend much time in the compost bin by the house that’s filled with rabbit litter and garden waste. The really good stuff is usually too far down for them to do real damage to the pile.
And they would do damage to a compost pile. A lot of the decomposition that happens is due to fungae spreading their filaments through all the cellulose. Plus the bacteria that handle the aerobic digestion need a really precise level of warmth and moisture. I don’t think there’s a good way to combine chickens with active composting (but I might be wrong!)
I find the chickens to be really useful in other ways. When I pull the old crop out of a bed, the chickens will spend a few days scratching (and pooping) in that spot, getting up the last bits of weeds and bugs. Then I can dump finished compost in there and they’ll scratch that in for me too.