Questioncan i make a tea from dropping? how much water/droping how much to use in veg garden?
AnswerThe 'Cock-a-doodle-DOO' organic Fertilizer lineup from Pure Barnyard is 100 percent granular poultry 'litter'. Here's the internet catalog page:
www.purebarnyard.com/cockadoodledoo/products.asp?product=f40b
and the posted MSDS sheet describing the ingredients:
www.purebarnyard.com/_pdf/MSDS-DOOFertilizer2.pdf
Fearless organic leader Marion Owen penned instructions on using Chicken Dung and posted them on her website:
www.plantea.com/manure.htm
'Manure Matters -- How manures measure up' saves its highest compliments for Chicken droppings. Says Owen: 'Poultry Manure (Chicken in particular) is the richest animal Manure in N-P-K.' Some farmers actually feed it to their Cows; ruminants digest it with no complaints and convert it into microbial proteins.
Most authorities caution against using any un-composted Manure, including Chicken Manure, on vegetables. There are just too many pathogens out there to make raw Chicken droppings a safe fertilizer. If you FIRST Compost it thoroughly (something that can take 6 months from start to finish) USING THE HOT COMPOST METHOD, you will destroy the pathogens, and the end product will be safe to use anywhere as a direct amendment or as the ingredient in Compost Tea.
Manure Tea involves steeping Manure in Water. We know that the Water must be aerated to culture aerobic bacteria, which is the kind we need to generate nutrients and battle undesirable microbes. It's easy to do this. Just pick up a $20 aquarium pump and some plastic air tubing, plug in, and you're set.
You can use as much of this as you want. The more, the merrier.
THE LONG ISLAND GARDENER