Author Topic: Poultry manure  (Read 416 times)

foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
Poultry manure
« 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?

chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
Re: Poultry manure
« Reply #1 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.

foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
Re: Poultry manure
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 12:57:28 PM »
Fab, thanks for that.  :)

 

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