Coop scoop
We scraped enough chicken
dirt from the used
pallet chicken coop to fill multiple wheel barrows.
It was the total from 4 years
of accumulation, and it gave Anna the feeling of being at the beach.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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deb --- Yeah, Mark didn't get what I was talking about either. It's just that amazing relaxed, happy feeling you get after hauling so many loads of black gold...or sitting and watching the ocean for hours.
Dave --- In the winter you would probably get away with it. But I wouldn't recommend it now that the growing season has commenced. I've mulched woody perennials with moderately fresh deep bedding for years, but I would always apply it in the winter, when roots were dormant and the bedding had a couple of months to compost on the soil surface before things started to grow again. As a result, I thought the bedding mixture was pretty innocuous...until I applied it directly under a perennial in the growing season last year and saw some burn! Now I figure, better safe than sorry.
On the other hand, if the trees are newly planted, you know exactly where their roots are. So you could presumably spread the manurey bedding in a donut a bit beyond the root zone. Then, when the roots get there, they'll have yummy compost to eat up.