"hot manure" and composting paper [View all]

[mopinko]

so, i am planning to get some chickens. a fair number, maybe 2 dozen. i am looking forward to all that free fertilizer, but i know you cannot use it right away. it is too "hot". now, i am not sure exactly what that means. is it ammonia? or what? can you neutralize it with anything? wood ash? (always looking for good ways to use my fireplace ash. soil is already too high ph)
i do some vermiculture already, and they recommend starting beds of newspaper. i use the poopie paper from the birdcages. (have several birds, including a little flock of budgies) the worms love this stuff.
so, my thought is that if i use newspaper in the chicken coop, it would compost up pretty quickly, with or without worms. back in the day there were all sorts of heavy metals and all in ink. it is my understanding that osha regs changed that.
thoughts?