Is Chicken Manure Safe to use in the Garden?
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2016
- Chickens as domestic animals have a long history and likely originated in Asia somewhere around 8000 years ago. [1] They are common place on many farms and acreages providing a variety of services including food, waste disposal and their manure and bedding can be source of material for compost. On today’s Testing Garden Assumptions series video I am going to evaluate if chicken manure and bedding as a source of nutrients for your garden and if it is safe to use.
[1] History of Domestic Chickens:
archaeology.about.com/od/domes...
[2] Nutrient content of Manures
www.jswconline.org/content/57/...
[3] Fertilizer Burn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertili...
[4] Composting Chicken Manure to Kill Pathogens
www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
[5] Mortality Composting
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
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in my country the grannies leave the chicken poo in water for a week before putting in the garden
The Gardening Assumption Series is by far my favorite segment you film. Great job and thank you for the research!
Thank you my friend! Now that it is winter ill do more Testing Garden Assumptions :)
I've been using chicken manure for years. The trick is keeping the bedding it collects in loose, aerated and dry. Most people who keep chickens in a coop favor the "deep litter" method, in which there are 8-12" of wood shavings. Added to this are sand, bentonite clay, and diatomaceous earth. These help with keeping the coop dry (and the chickens healthy), and renders the manure a lot safer. It also reduces things like lice and mites in the coop which would bother the chickens. Those items, in the proportions you use them in the coop also make for a great soil amendment themselves.
Rabbit manure however is much better. It doesn't burn, even when applied without any composting. The nutrient makeup is a bit different than chicken manure (less nitrogen, more phosphorus). Rabbits produce it a lot faster. 1 Rabbit will make enough manure to fertilize 1ft² of garden bed per day. It doesn't sound like much, but if you keep rabbits for meat production, you would typically have between 20-50 of them at any given time. People in suburban and urban areas where keeping chickens is prohibited often find they can raise rabbits (they don't take nearly as much room as chickens, and don't make noise).
With rabbits and Chickens, there are other fertilizer sources. When you slaughter them, collect the blood and dry it in a shallow pan for your own blood meal. It's not worth it to get the blood from one animal, but if you're restocking a freezer, 30 animals at a time, it adds up. Bones can be dried and ground for bone-meal. Feathers make feather meal, and egg shells, dried, ground and dissolved in a light vinegar solution, then diluted in water make an almost soluble calcium spray. The only thing I would avoid using is rabbit urine, it's highly caustic and attracts unwelcome wildlife to the garden. However, in a spray bottle, undiluted, it can make for a natural herbicide. Spray it on a weed, it will kill it, but then break down and fertilize the area the weed was growing in. Not good for an annual vegetable garden, but works great under fruit trees.
If you can't keep chickens for some reason (zoning issues, not enough room, etc), you can do the same thing with quail. They also produce meat and eggs (3 quail eggs = 1 chicken egg). They are usually not prohibited explicitly in zoning ordinances, take very little room, grow to meat harvest size very quickly (you get more meat per pound of animal feed used compared to chickens), and they produce manure of equal quality to chickens. They're also easier to clean and dress. No plucking required, you just skin them in one easy motion, so takes about 30 seconds. There's a lot of videos on UA-cam illustrating the technique, but they are graphic if anyone is sensitive to such things.
I unfortunately do have restrictions currently prohibiting me from keeping hens or any animal for food. That said I do appreciate the information you have provided. I want to make sure people can get the information they want or need about back yard good production as it relates to gardening and fertilizer sources !
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Excellent and informative as always. Thank you!
Thank you my friend!
i add my chicken manure to my beds all the time and the earthworms are everywhere now. I add it to areas with no plants planted and i add them over the winter. Then i till them all in just before planting. No more chemicals for this guy!!! lol
Another great video!!
I am glad it is working so well for you!
Informative, as always. Looking good!
Thank you my friend!
Nice! A lot of information packed in tight once again. You should do a spoof/comedic video like how to grow any plant with....(fill in the blankwith something silly like fruit loops) then show a huge plant as a result lol.
April is coming ;)
I bought my first four chickens this year. I can't tell you how wonderful it has been.I get four eggs everyday.and I love my chickens they're smart, like to be picked up, and even pet. they will jump in my lap. and even come when I call them. .I built a coupe with a big run in it. then a chicken tractor, but now I just let them run free on my acre yard.My cats and dog don't bother them
That is wonderful to hear ! I envy your ability to raise them in such a wonderful way !
Are you able to collect manure and bedding for your garden ?
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yes all the bedding and poop from the coop goes in my compost bin. it starts cooking almost immediately. but since they're free range all day there poop is scattered throughout the yard, making cleanup less frequented.I do have to rinse the carport off.
One set compost tank can handle about 10tons fresh chicken manure every day(moisture content:60%-70%) and from the 8th day on, will discharge 3-4tons high quality organic fertilizer every day(moisture content: about 30%)
I’m so irritated with myself. I JUST cleaned out my chicken coop, bagged it all up and put it in with my trash pick-up! Arrrrgggg!!! I should’ve watched this video FIRST!!!
CHICKEN MANURE WORKS amazingly in my garden! I use it first year and my tomatoes and cucumbers ( zucchini, etc.) just love to! The secret is : you have to ferment fresh chicken manure before to use it! Cover it with water, concentration 1:5 (manure :water), I also added some straw, and soil improving mixture(kind of molasses), leave it for about a week, then you dilute it with water in the same proportion and water your plants. Once a week. I have never seen such a happy tomatoes plants. They are so strong, deep green, a lots of fruits!
Looking forward to your work on no till gardening. I am planning raised beds that incorporate a composter within the raised bed. The barrel will be open at the top and bottom and will have drilled out holes about 1" in diameter all around on the sides of the barrel to allow various critters access between the compost pile and the raised bed soil. This bed is inspired by how well plants tend to do in and around compost piles. The release and distribution of nutrients will be controlled mostly by the activity of earthworms and fungi and the hope is that I will never have to touch the compost once I've placed it in these composters. There will be a lid on top to keep out flies. The raised bed will be around 32" high and will be built up starting with aged logs, then branches, then leaves/mulch, then a layer of finished compost and then more mulch on top. It's like a hugelkultur raised bed with an integrated accessible composter within. Does that paint the picture? I want to create something that minimizes the work of processing compost and my hope is I will never have to water these beds as they should hold a lot of moisture within. No tilling required either.
No tilling is an interesting subject and certainly would take getting used to if you grew up with more traditional tilling gardens! that said I can say it works very very well!
Alberta Urban Garden Simple Organic and Sustainable it makes sense. There's no tilling in nature other than the tilling carried out by creatures like earth worms. It seems like the priority should be on creating a situation that would invite more of these beneficial creatures so that less of the work is being done by you.
I could not agree more ;)
The answer is yes chicken manure is safe , yes its good for your garden. Its the circle of life even.
Thanks Stephen. Like you I only use my compost made from yard and kitchen waste. I see you already have snow on the ground. Best wishes Bob.
We just got another 4 inches overnight. It's an early snowfall but not unexpected lol.
Thanks for another great video. I keep chickens, and use the manure when I plant. I bury a little under the soil, then plant as usual. By the time the roots get down to that level, the plant can use a little boost. I use manure I gathered during the winter, so it's no longer "hot".
Trench composting is a good way to do it!
I love my chickens! Best garden buddies I've ever had.
Great video, Stephen! Accurate as well ; )
Thank you my friend. The research for this one was easy to find and not really surprising as we have been closely working with chickens for thousands of years.
I think that fungal dominated compost might also work to maintain the harmful bacteria in small concentration s. I've read that there are some species of fungus that have the ability to remediate E. coli and salmonella. King Stropharia mushrooms are one of them, and as a bonus, they are edible.
It may be. To be honest they are a part of a healthy community of bacteria just in low amounts. we get in trouble when we come in contact with them in much higher levels!
Always good and reliable information from you. Thanks.
Glad I could be of help my friend !
Curious the stores freak out but have u tried to compost your chicken manure and use it in part of your mix to start any seeds inside?
control the amount of manure you put around the plants and youll be fine. the amount of nitogen in chicken manure is mimimal compared to chemical fertilizers say a 10-10-10. chicken manure is fine to use fresh without composting if youre short on time. l have chickens and l use their manure on vegetable and flower plants .it makes vigorous healthy plants with no issues.
Thank lots brother...
I thought the manure would cause worms that eat the roots! I just bought some manure and I'm just hoping for the best. thanks for video
I could use a bit of added nutrients but i have not used chicken manure yet. I will as soon as i find a hot composting method that will spare my back. I have built one pile up earlier this year but i just couldn't do the turning. For now, i just mulch and add cow manure pellets instead. Let the worms do the work. I do have potential sources though!
if You have back issues mulching methods with leaves, coffee grounds and other nutrients sources may be your best bet to get what you need without hurting yourself!
One of these days, i will own one of these cool compost tumblers but until that day, yes. :D
Steven comeback to you tube! The Gardening world is not the same without you😢
What the hell happened to him
good to know
do you use any store bought fertilizer? great videos!
I have not used any store bought fertilizer in years. I use the free and local resources made in my yard or kitchen to improve the nutrients in the garden.
What about diluteing it with water after alowing it to rot for a bit?
It's not an option for everyone, but I don't coop my chickens. They're kept on 2 acres, so the only place I have the poo piling up is in the hen house. It's way easier to clean up that way
What do you think will happen if we cold compost the chicken manure?? Is it safe??
Your sharing of resources is really appreciated.
it is safe!
Nice BHP jacket! I'm drilling a well right now for them. Thanks for the info
hello sir .....i am from india ..i use chiken manure to aracanut tree is it safe to use ......please tell me about this
Use praire hay in coop, more nutrients in it than straw
Thats a good point!!
You should feature your little boy in some of your videos. He probably already helps you in the garden. It’s a great way to spend quality time with your children while teaching them how to garden. I fondly remember as a kid growing flowers and roses with my grandma. I sure miss my grandma! 😢
Can I use chicken manure tea on yam and cassava
I want to make a chicken compost tea, just 10 cup 100 gallons molasses fish seedweed fertilizer aerate spray it on my lawn
Great points about chicken manure !!! In our small gardens it's just not needed.
I agree. I suspect I have more than enough nutrients!
arsenic?
hey guys what would happen if someone used the sea cucumber DNA to fill in the gaps of all of every farm animals genomes
i don't have access to chicken, cow or worm manure. What' a good substitute?
Composting your fruit and veggie waste is a perfect way of utilizing food scraps in an environmentally friendly way (less garbage and carbon footprint) & you can use your compost to feed your garden. As a bonus, add a couple 3 backyard chickens and they eat the scraps and poo and you can even use the egg shells for your garden!
@@master11manifestor nice..thank you
Look up David the Good. He has lots of videos on how to get free compost. One idea is his “swamp water where you just put whatever weeds and and other leaves you have in a bucket or barrel of water and let it sit for a few weeks. Comfrey (an herb) is really high in nitrogen. So are human urine and hair.
I LOVE CHICKENS 🐔
your garden needs water :)
Is it safe to pour chicken and pig poo mixed with water good for growing vegetables
not for veggies, sorry
I find the subject a little bit crap since I don't own chickens myself... :D
Lol that's Punny
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How to make chicken manure
Sorry, my Texas Baptist preacher assures me that the Earth is ~4K years old.
420 Colorado Chickens came from a different planet. Problem solved.
I agree with Number Eight. Must be from a different planet!
***** Well, chickens can fly... so it's not illogical that they flew to earth. :-)
Your pastor is an idiot.
Behalf
Less is more with chicken manure.
What about the E. coli
You have E coli in your own gut naturally. Wash your vegetables and cook them!
8000 years ago in Asia lol. Like you have any idea.
Yes I got nutrient burnt most plant I apply burnt I mix it in some sand an still they said it's cure I will mix with mulch etc an leave a bit before using I notice lots of flys I brought 5 100 lbs so I will mix an used
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There is no z in resources.
true bro i see all your plants died hummm