I tell you what, all the pine chips filled with duck and chicken poop have put my compost into over drive! I had a bunch of sticks and sunflower stalks in there that were doing nothing at all since last fall. It only took a week or two of hot poop chips to get things going. They are all softened up and breaking down. Now when I turn the pile I can feel the heat of everything composting, even standing in the sunlight in the middle of the day.

I've started a second compost pile where the chickens hang out. They dig around in it all day and that is supposed to speed things up even more.