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Kidal Village, located in Malang Regency, is famous for chicken egg products. Around 106 traditional chicken poultries have been operated in the village, with hens chicken population of 1,463,720 chickens. This activity has created problems of untreated chicken manure which estimated production of 85.8 tonnes per day. Currently the chicken manure is leave untreated on the bottom of the chicken cage and cleaned once a year during the new seeding time. Such practice has resulted odour problems especially to those area nearby the chicken poultry. In this community engagement program, an easy and feasible technology was introduced, called as composting technology with the use of effective microorganism to quickly breakdown organic materials in the manure and to remove the odour. Training was provided for hens chicken farmer including on-site demonstration plot was carried out. Prior the training, focus group discussion was held to investigate the chicken farmer actual problems and expectation. The results indicated that the training has given a new sight of all the target participant in treating the chicken manure. Yet, some problems were raised such as the chicken feed which may have contributed to the strong odour, location of the chicken poultry and farmers behavior. Introducing composting technology have opened up the village government mindset that actually from chicken manure, some economic benefits can be obtained. With the concept of zero waste, good sanitation and green chicken poultry may contribute to improve the economic activity, as well as the environmental health condition in the village.