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Clarence, NY

OK no joking around with this one. I've got a lot of chicken poop available (it's not on my hands) and want to know if anyone has any experience using it?

1/9/2007 7:01:23 PM

Georgia

Be careful with using chicken manure someone else can hopefully get more into detail but Ive had a lot better experience with cow or horse...Manure that is. Chicken manure in excess has a tendency to burn or lets say over do it with your plants. Id like to know more on the subject myself.

1/9/2007 8:03:38 PM

Montoursville, PA

My experience with it is just that experience. I over did it year three and had way to much nitrogen with all the related problems. Years one, two and four I used only a few pounds like maybe half a five gallon bucket full in the nursery and three five gallon buckets over the whole remaining six to eight hundred square feet, of patch. The rest of my trailer load was stock piled and worked into the compost pile with lots of high carbon browns. By the end of the season it was compost and safe.

1/9/2007 9:06:44 PM

Johnston, R.I.

I think it would work great if composted and mixed with leaves and let sit for a while.
Norm G

1/10/2007 2:32:36 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

You and Lucky Seed should ge together and trade off the sawdust and chicken manure...sawdust is a 500:1 carbon nitrogen ratio...your nitrogen and his sawdust would be great for composting.

1/10/2007 9:24:32 PM

Clarence, NY

Based on what I'm reading here it looks a composting experiment in the making for the 2008 growing season....stay tuned!

1/10/2007 9:52:43 PM

Montoursville, PA

Hey my man..........remember diversity is the road to better compost primarily because different plants have different trace elements to offer and sometimes different growth promoters. Kelp, alfalfa and alo vera have known but different growth promoters. When you have a blend of many plants you have your very best compost pile working....but only in conjunction with animal manures and a touch of your basic local soil. Mono-nothing makes the really good stuff.

1/21/2007 6:46:54 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Use the poultry-poo in the browner compost pile. Dwaine speeks the ugly truth about chicken manure. It is very high in Nitrogen. Good for the lawn & other all green crops but pumpkins abort like mad if the hand is too heavy.

1/21/2007 2:10:19 PM

Montoursville, PA

Hey guys it will way over nitrate your lawn, flower beds and anyplace else you might use it. It will actually grow weak and soft elongated cells....mostly because it is usually way over applied and consequently over nitrateing is the problem.

Hay fields have been likewise over nitrated leading to big tall crops and weakness that was soon attacked by Mother sending in her insects and fungi to wipe out the sick plants. Mother somehow knows.

1/22/2007 9:26:33 PM