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Jim,
That should do the trick with the compost we just need an activator of some sorts to get it heated up real good.
My older brother had a friend who let him use a piece of his land for gardening on his farm. He said the vegetables grew like they were on steroids....
Reason was he had raised pigs on that piece of land for 25 years running imagine the volume of manure which built up over that time.
Another fella he knew raised dairy cattle and he'd pile up the manure on both sides of his driveway which ran several hundred feet to the main road. He planted rhubarb along there and only charged 50 cents for a big armful he probably made a couple of thousand per year even at that price. It produced so much.
Neighbour on the island use to plant his tomatoes in the black earth from the cows. Yup they loved it, full sun, never any blight, huge fruit. There's a couple that I met and they plant in straight sheep, crazy growth.
I get my best seedlings from the compost pile every year it seems. If it spouts there it's a winner it seems.
Went to see what the compost pile looked like in the tractor, everything thawed to the pile, tad MUDDY! though the pile was frozen like a turd at -40C.
Back to my new chicken door-why another project that I thought would be an easy.
The back half of the barn has Hemlock 2"X 6" lumber on the inside for protection for the horse kicks on the OSB. Then sawn full 2x6 insulated walls then the OSB on the outside. I'm putting a reclaimed electrical panel box I took off a barn demo for the passage door. I'll put another insulated one on the inside.
They'll have a tunnel to go through-learning experience once again.
"wing it" time again 
