Adam Williams

Greg I know that only a supper small % of the bio char will brake down in the first 10 years.  But when adding it to compost you need to plan for it's nutrient uptake.  If you don't count for it sucking up nutrient uptake that the mix will be off slowing down the rate of compost. due to a bad mix of browns and greens.

Basic composting is biased off 3 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen.

Bio-char would be a carbon.  I have not done any deep reading on bio char in the last 20 months, but at the time I was unable to find any numbers about how much ammonia or nitrogen bio char would capture.

Adding more carbon is not going to help.

Are you putting it out dry or are you inoculating it somehow?

The most I have done was about 300 pounds an acre that was added to our chicken beading and composted.  I did not see any short term differences between composted bio char and compost.

We hatch, breed, raise, and harvest around 10,000 to 15,000 chickens a year on deep bedding systems.
We have been composting everything from the bedding, mortality, and the waist from harvesting.
For bedding we use sawdust, ground peanut shells, ans ground wood chips.

4 months ago we got into vermiculture tiring to grow out the population and to learn.

I know the moralities and the harvest waist need to be well composted before feeding it to the worms.
Is the bedding safe to give to the worms after a heat cycle, or dose it need to age?