Chicken poo is good in small quantities, but it won’t do much to improve your soil in the long run.
Don’t overdose with chicken poo! Basically you are looking at two different things here: fertilizer and compost.
Chicken poo is an organic fertilizer and will add much needed nutrients to help your plants grow, but only apply the amount stated on the container, too much will be bad and may even poison your plants!
Composts are ‘soil improvers’, they work by holding moisture and making the soil more ‘open’ (so roots can breathe), composts usually only contain small amounts of nutrients. Composts can be home made from grass/weeds or bought in and may contain inert material like peat or bark.
Manure is a kind of half way house, traditionally coming from farm animal bedding and waste, it will both improve the soil and add fertilizer. Look for well composted manure, if it is too ‘fresh’ it can damage plant’s roots.
Just to confuse matters, some plants enjoy a ‘poor’ soil, such as alpines. And some vegetable dislike manure (e.g. carrots), so a lot depends what you are intending to grow.
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