Both of them will make wonderful manure.

Ratio of both depends upon type of leaves and time required for its decomposition.

However addition of some moisture around 20-25 per cent shall be beneficial for hastened rotting of leaves by acid available in chick pellets

Composting Chicken Manure

Chickens Produce Eggs and Manure

Your chicken produces an egg every 24 hours and it is wonderful to have your own home-produced fresh eggs.  Your average size hen also produces 1 cubic foot of manure every six months.  What are you doing with this?   Manure simply can’t continue to accumulate in your coop.  It stinks, attracts rodents and flies, and the ammonia is not healthy for your chickens to breath.

Benefits of Chicken Manure

Don’t despair; manure can be one of the greatest assets for a home gardener!  Although chicken manure is too strong to be used raw on your flowers or vegetables, it can be composted and converted to “black gold”.   If used without composting it could damage roots and possibly kill your plants, however, once it is composted chicken manure is:

• A good soil amendment, chicken manure adds organic matter and increases the water holding capacity and beneficial biota in soil.
• A good fertilizer; chicken manure provides Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium to you plants (more than horse, cow or steer manure).

Composting Chicken Manure

If you are not familiar with composting and need to learn how, contact the Seattle Tilth Garden Hotline at 206-633-0224.  Hotline staff will provide you with information about the components of composting:  Carbon (browns - your coop bedding), Nitrogen (greens - your chicken manure), air, moisture, volume, and temperature.   Here are some recommendations to get you started using chicken manure in your compost pile:

• Collect manure and bedding.  Chicken owners normally use bedding such as shavings, sawdust, dry leaves, or straw to provide a dry cushion for chickens and to control odor and pests.  The coop bedding can be collected with the manure and dumped into a composting bin.  Some owners prefer to pick manure and soiled bedding out of the coop on a daily basis; others will add new bedding over droppings and collect on a less frequent basis.     
• Carbon to Nitrogen balance.  A combination of 30 parts Carbon to 1 part Nitrogen creates the ideal environment for microbes to break down organic material to produce compost.  When combining coop bedding and chicken manure how do you achieve the ideal C: N ratio?   Since the different beddings have their own C: N ratio, the proportion of bedding to manure will vary depending on the type of bedding used.  To keep things simple most composters follow the general rule of 1 part brown to 2 parts green.  However, because chicken manure is so high in Nitrogen you may be more successful using a 1:1 or even a 2:1 mixture.
• Use a “hot compost” recipe.  By combining the correct ratio of bedding and manure at one time to form a pile, approximately one cubic yard, then adding moisture (material should be about as wet as a well wrung sponge), will produce a hot pile.  It is recommend that the compost pile heat to 130-150 degrees F and maintain that temperature for 3 days.  Heating is necessary to destroy pathogens but temperatures above 160 degrees F can kill beneficial microorganisms and slow the process.  To help you achieve appropriate temperature you can purchase a compost temperature gauge from a local nursery.
• Repeat the heating process.  Once the center of your compost pile has reached the required temperature for three days it will start to cool. After it cools, pull the center apart and move the core material to the edges and bring the edge material into the center to heat.  For 1 cubic yard of material repeat the process of bringing edges into the core at least 3 times.
• Let it cure.  Monitor the pile and once you are satisfied that the entire contents of your bin has been heated, loosely cover and let cure for 45-60 days before using.    It’s ready when most material is dark, crumbly and sweet-smelling like soil.
• Add to garden.  You can add the resulting compost to your vegetable garden or flower bed by spreading it on the surface or by gently working it into existing soil. 
• Compost Bin

Your bin should be at least 1 cubic yard in size (3x3x3 feet).  If possible, we recommend that you use a 2-bin compost system.  One bin will be in the hot compost phase and the other will be in the curing phase.  You may also need a storage site for the carbon materials you collect.  This can be a 3rd bin or it can just be a pile of leaves or bags of shavings stored in a dry area.  If you want to add grass clippings or weeds to your bin, you will also need a storage site for this material.  The Seattle Tilth or WSU websites listed below under Resources provide plans for building a backyard compost bin.

Manure Safety Tips

Fresh chicken manure may contain disease organisms that could contaminate root crops (carrots, radishes, beets) and leaves (lettuce, spinach), so DO NOT spread uncomposted manure on the soil in your vegetable garden.  The following “Safety Tips” are summarized from the Stewardship Gardening Program provided by Washington State University:

• Apply only aged or composted manure to your soil.  
• Always wear gloves when handling livestock manure.
• Thoroughly wash raw vegetables before eating.
• Do not use cat, dog or pig manure in compost piles.
• People who are susceptible to food borne illnesses should avoid eating uncooked vegetables from manured gardens. Those who face risks from food borne illness include pregnant women, very young children, and persons with cancer, kidney failure, liver disease,

Dear Zukhra Islamova,

Depending on the size of chicken waste and leave size will determine the size of earth dug out. let assume that you have 200kg of chicken waste and about 60kg of leave waste. you have to find a place at the farm where it is not water log to dig out the earth deep enough to bury both chicken waste and leaves. you have to dig out another earth of the same size beside the first one. after digging, you can put about 50kg of chicken waste in the pit, then you put on top about 15kg of leaves, then you spread about 5 kg black soil on top. then follow up with another 50kg of chicken manure on top followed by another 15kg leaves and black soil in that layer till all is exhausted. after you sprinkle about 10 litters of water on top and leave it for about a week. but if the quantity is much, you can insert stick to monitor the temperature, you then have to turn it by collecting from the first dug out into the second pit till all is exhausted and you leave it for about a week too then you turn it into the previous dug out until compost mature. If the manure is much, you can use the stick to monitor temperature and you turn it out into the other pit if very hot to prevent nitrogen from dissipating into the atmosphere till it mature.

Nitrogen fertilizer is good for physical, chemical and fertility properties

Chicken manure is stronger than other organic fertilizers. More important than the production of chicken manure, the time and amount of its use. It is recommended to be used outside of the summer, otherwise, the effects of burns (chlorosis and necrosis) in annual plants will be created.

Chicken manure is not recommended for seed and seedlings.

you could storage of chicken waste under the plastic cover or buried (mixed) in the soil and added about 10 kg Urea 46% in a Ton of wet chicken waste and Irrigated before covered. After 2 months in the hottest season in Iran for decomposition when the water was being evaporated, chicken manure is ready to use. This method used for soil solarization.

Traditional greenhouses in Isfahan Iran put chicken manure in a sack (water-permeable bag) and placed on the waterway to the plant. This is the easiest way to use chicken manure.

In composting with chicken litters with other biowaste waste. The ratio of the chicken litter should be 2/3 of the total compost to be able to have a C/N ratio of less than 20 which is excellent for corp nutrient use efficiency and crop yield.

Dear Islamova, There are many methods like NADEP method, Bangalore method of composting etc for making organic manure using leaves, crop residues etc. How ever, for poultry manure/chicken manure it needs greater care during fermentation since it produces more heat during decomposition. For nutrient composition, its availability, microbial biomass refer the attached article it will be helpful in enlightening your knowledge.

I did not understand well. Do you want to produce compost?

Yes, I am writing a recommendation for farmers, land owners, about compost producing and application. Also, I want encourage producers of compost produce compost from chicken manure because in my country source of chicken manure much, but we do not use it. Please give me more information and more source about this chicken manure and leaves.