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Smallholding => Land Management => Topic started by: Foobar on June 19, 2012, 03:20:47 pm

Title: Poultry manure
Post by: Foobar on June 19, 2012, 03:20:47 pm

Does anyone know please how long after applying poultry manure should one wait before putting grazing stock (sheep in this case) back on grassland?

Title: Re: Poultry manure
Post by: chrismahon on June 30, 2012, 08:09:54 pm

Guess it depends how matured it was and well spread it is. But we used to graze our sheep with the chickens on a timeshare basis. Sheep mornings, chickens afternoons. Neither had any ill effects at all. The sheep ignored the chicken poo and ate around it until a downpour washed it in. The chickens ate the flies that landed on the sheep poo. So I would say with this heavy rain they can go on it straight away Foobar.

Title: Re: Poultry manure
Post by: Foobar on July 01, 2012, 12:57:28 pm

Fab, thanks for that.  :)