Westland Organic Chicken Manure Pellets, 10 kg

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A. Remove any visible pellets and heavily water the area to dissolve and wash through excess product. Gardeners who have their own flock will have a ready supply of fresh chicken manure, but it still needs to be composted before adding it to garden beds. Chicken manure is different from fresh domestic poultry litter - which is often used without additional processing for the compost heap.

Each of these chicken sheds contains 25 birds and are moved their length every day, providing fresh ground for the hens to feed on and also ensuring that the chicken manure is spread across the whole field. Be sure to mix 6X thoroughly with the soil and avoid contact between unmixed manure and young delicate plants as, in common with any high nitrogen feed, it will be too rich. While a chicken can produce an egg every 24 hours, the average hen produces something else in abundance, one cubic foot of manure every six months (Anderson, 2010). gallons) of litter every six months, which means a flock of 10 hens, will produce about three-quarters of a cubic yard per year.COMPOSTING – Scatter a handful of pellets into each layer of garden waste added to the compost heap to enrich the compost and add trace elements. Pelleted chicken manure is among the most popular and widely available non-chemical, organic fertilisers on the market, making it a popular choice among amateur gardeners.

It provides all the essential nutrients with a neutral pH and has been oven sterilised to eradicate any pathogens and weeds. When applied directly to soil, the raw manure can burn and kill your plants rather than enrich them, which is why pellets that have been processed are, in general, better for the amateur home gardener. The balance of 30 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen, combined with air, water, and temperature will break down the waste.You’ll be feeding and nourishing the soil rather than the plants with 6X, which improves the root zone allowing your plants to thrive.