Have you checked Soil, Compost and Mulch Forum - GardenWeb? They go a little overboard on the natural organic meme but one might extract an answer there.

You will be making a toxic sludge for the following reasons: 1) Chicken manure is very high in N and you need a high-carbon ('brown') material like leaves, sawdust, straw etc. to balance it out. Otherwise it will smell of ammonia and worse. 2) A lidded container will keep out air which is essential to an aerobic, non-stinky pile. 3) A plastic container will also hold water and not allow drainage, which can contribute to smelly conditions as well. It's a recipe for disaster. However if you have room for a plastic container, you have room for a similar sized woven wire cylinder on the ground that you could pile it into. Hide it behind a bush if appearance is a problem. Even w/o browns this will be better than a plastic container with a lid. If you can get some browns to layer in, it'll work even better.

Finished compost tends toward a neutral pH, even if wood ash or other forms of CaCo3 are added and even if the majority of the material are (shudder) Oak Leaves or pine needles. All leaves have a pH in the 3.0 to 4.8 range and all the compost I have made since the 1960's has been neutral of very close to 7.0 whether wood ash or other forms of CaCo3 have been added or not. Early on I had trouble with offensive odors, putrid because of too much moisture and ammonia like because of too much Nitrogen, until I learned those causes and corrected the problems, the learning curve. Because the nutrients in compost are not very readily available any test will show very low numbers and they will not be very accurate. The only real test of compost is if plants grow well when it is added to the growing medium. Wood ash and other forms of CaCo3 are not needed in the compost mix at all.

Hi Kristi, Your dog's story makes me laugh out loud :) Well, I never used alpaca poop before, but I experimented once with bunny poop, which is also not "hot" like the other manure, but I found that there is some sort of fungal roots, kinda like spider web, growing from the pots with the bunny fertilizer. That's probably not a good thing, so I repot them with different soil.