My uncle had an chicken house for egg layers when I was a kid. My mother's secret recipe in the garden for a bunch of stuff was, as she quite graphically called it, chickensh.. She got a pickup load delivered every year or so, though it was usually pretty well rotted by the time it got to our house.
You can definitely compost it. If it doesn't get composted hot, the weed seeds and pathogens won't get killed off, but there is plenty of that in the soil anyway. Composting will make it into a form that is much more usable and balanced for your plants. However, if your going to till it in this fall, it'll be ready to use next spring. A lot depends upon how well bedded the chickens were.
No offense to your son, but I get kind of cross-eyed with people getting paranoid about germs in manure. There is a huge difference between a chicken house with tens of thousands of birds where pathogens can really get going and a small home flock.
If you spread it fresh, you're gonna want to till it in right away or you'll lose a whole lot of nitrogen in just the first day.
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