Chicken Manure in the Garden

[boggybranch]

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[seedcorn]

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Interesting as chicken manure sells for $25/ton or higher. In fact, you have to be on waiting list to get any manure at all in commercial ag. Most manures are mainly moisture.

 

[lesa]

Thanks for the link, boggy. I was a gardener before I was a chicken owner- I originally got chickens for their poop!! Of course, now I enjoy having chickens as much as I enjoy gardening. I disagree a little with the authors opinion about dropping boards. I don't like mixing wood chips into my garden, without composting. So, I use dropping boards to keep the plain poop separate. I clean those every morning (it takes 2 minutes, tops.) I apply that directly to the garden in winter and let nature take care of it...
The chips I either compost in a pile all their own, or add them on top of a flower garden, as fertilizer/mulch.
Still waiting to hear your plans for chicken poop, boggy- I know you have them!

 

[boggybranch]

Thanks for the link, boggy. I was a gardener before I was a chicken owner- I originally got chickens for their poop!! Of course, now I enjoy having chickens as much as I enjoy gardening. I disagree a little with the authors opinion about dropping boards. I don't like mixing wood chips into my garden, without composting. So, I use dropping boards to keep the plain poop separate. I clean those every morning (it takes 2 minutes, tops.) I apply that directly to the garden in winter and let nature take care of it...
The chips I either compost in a pile all their own, or add them on top of a flower garden, as fertilizer/mulch.
Still waiting to hear your plans for chicken poop, boggy- I know you have them!

Hahahahaha.....You know me, heading to the compost pile. Next fall......it will be heading straight to the garden, in trenches.

 

[kitdieni]

inimitably informative))