Hi All,
Looking for feedback on how others use their chicken manure for Veggie growing and also if they bother to also compost when they own chickens or if they just throw all scraps to chooks?
Recently I have been making chicken manure tea and leaving it to soak for 2+days and then watering it down to weak tea strength and poring it around vegies but it does not seem to make much difference so I'm wondering how often I need to do this to see results? After applying I water it in and then use water for the following days. The manure is from under the roosting perches and is more then a month old. Am I using it wrong and if so how do you use your Chicken manure that is under the roosting areas for best effect with silver beet and other leaf crops?
How to use chicken manure tea?
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Hey Matt,
how are the chooks going?
how are the chooks going?
Compost the chook poo.
Use the aged chook poo to make the compost tea.
Add in some molasses ( a gloop)
Get an aerator.
Brew it for around 24 hrs.
Use it.
Always be aware of salmonella when using chook poo around veggies.
Wash your food well.
Wait 24hrs before harvesting after apllication
Use the aged chook poo to make the compost tea.
Add in some molasses ( a gloop)
Get an aerator.
Brew it for around 24 hrs.
Use it.
Always be aware of salmonella when using chook poo around veggies.
Wash your food well.
Wait 24hrs before harvesting after apllication
Limeburner:Yeah the chooks are good. Just the usual they eat food, poop and go clucky so we get no eggs in return for months on end
FU: Thanks for the reply, so that means I need to build a compost pile and source more green materials as I currently throw all my green material to the chooks to eat and scratch around in the run. Before winter I empty all raised garden beds to top dress lawn, and then fill the beds with horse manure, straw/bedding and throw chicken manure in the pile to rot down over winter. Was just looking for an easy way to feed the plants during summer, hence the tea experiment which resulted in nice healthy green alge in the bucket and loads of flies.
FU: Thanks for the reply, so that means I need to build a compost pile and source more green materials as I currently throw all my green material to the chooks to eat and scratch around in the run. Before winter I empty all raised garden beds to top dress lawn, and then fill the beds with horse manure, straw/bedding and throw chicken manure in the pile to rot down over winter. Was just looking for an easy way to feed the plants during summer, hence the tea experiment which resulted in nice healthy green alge in the bucket and loads of flies.
lol
Get a aerator from an aquarium shop.
Chuck a hand full of compost into a dirty old sock or your neighbours clean sock off their line.
Brew the concoction with the molasses for 24hrs with the aerator bubbling away.
Then dilute it down to say a cupful in a watering can.
Get a aerator from an aquarium shop.
Chuck a hand full of compost into a dirty old sock or your neighbours clean sock off their line.
Brew the concoction with the molasses for 24hrs with the aerator bubbling away.
Then dilute it down to say a cupful in a watering can.
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