Poultry manure as fertilizer: how to apply, collect and store

Principles of use

Fertilizing the soil with poultry droppings significantly increases its properties, stimulates natural biological processes: growth, flowering, the appearance of an ovary, ripening of fruits. With proper use, poultry raw materials are easily assimilated by crops, its substances are not washed out for a long time, maintaining the necessary concentration for plant nutrition and growth. Despite the obvious benefits of poultry manure, improper use as fertilizer can cause significant damage to the growth of fruit and vegetable crops.It is necessary to use poultry raw materials taking into account the following recommendations:

• fresh manure is quite toxic - getting on greens and plant roots, it can cause burns, therefore, before adding it, it must be mixed with other organic materials: peat, straw, sawdust;

• it is necessary to fertilize the soil with droppings several months before planting crops - it is ideal to do this in the fall;

• fertilization with poultry raw materials of trees and shrubs requires special care - when applying it is necessary to ensure that the droppings do not fall directly on the roots;

• when introducing bird droppings into the soil, it is necessary to observe the measure - the oversaturation of the soil with nitrogen can lead to too intensive growth, and then the rapid oppression of plants;

• when preparing the fertilizer, the dosage of the components should be strictly observed - weak solutions of poultry manure are ineffective, too concentrated aggressively affect crops.

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What plants is combined with

Traditionally, poultry raw materials are used as fertilizer for fruit and berry crops and vegetables. For garden trees, grapes - this is an ideal top dressing and a valuable source of useful elements. Vegetable crops: tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, cabbage are also very fond of this fertilizer. Compost can be fertilized in the spring in the soil intended for growing these vegetables. During the growing season, crops are watered with infusion several times at the rate of 5-6 l / sq.

When watering vegetable crops with poultry droppings, it is necessary to adhere to the measure. Frequent watering can lead to increased growth of deciduous mass to the detriment of the ovary. If the tops have started to grow strongly, watering should be temporarily stopped for about 10 days. Cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin should be fed for the first time at the stage of 2-3 leaves, then before flowering, and once more during the fruiting period.

For plants that consume a lot of potassium: potatoes and other root crops, poultry raw materials are not entirely suitable. With intensive soil saturation with droppings, these crops receive less potassium, and in addition, they can accumulate a lot of nitrates.Garlic, green onions and other greens can be fed only once at the beginning of the growing season, since bird droppings, like manure, strongly stimulate the growth of green mass. Within a week after watering, the beds with greenery will literally come to life.

How to prepare fertilizer

Processing of raw materials for fertilization can be carried out in several ways:

1. Liquid solution. For its preparation, it is recommended to dilute bird droppings in a ratio of 1:10 with water, then leave for several days. The output should be a solution of the color of a weak tea. A more concentrated product should be slightly diluted before fertilizing the soil so as not to burn the roots.

2. Dry bird droppings can be used as a fertilizer base. In this case, poultry raw materials and water must be taken in equal quantities (1: 1). After insisting, a highly concentrated fermented solution is obtained, which must be diluted to the desired consistency. Such processing allows you to fertilize crops as needed throughout the season.

3. In the fall, you can fertilize the soil with dry, or fresh bird droppings mixed with any organic material. For this, poultry raw materials, mixed with other components, are distributed on the soil surface. Processing manure in this way allows you to get high-quality soil by the spring.

How to collect and store droppings

Many poultry farmers use dry organic materials to collect poultry fertilizer. Straw, corn rods, peat, dry grass, sawdust are suitable as bedding. When poultry manure is mixed with any of these ingredients, a valuable organic soil and plant nutrition is obtained.

When collecting fertilizer, precautions should not be neglected. Fresh droppings contain a large number of helminth eggs, so you need to collect it only in an impervious suit and rubber gloves.

For preservation, bird droppings are harvested using quick drying, or composting. Recycling of droppings by drying or granulating is the most suitable option for long-term storage. During the drying process, manure completely gets rid of pathogenic larvae and harmful substances that are present in fresh raw materials. In addition, dry fertilizer is easy to dose, does not have a characteristic odor, and retains its properties for a long time.

Composting is another way to collect poultry manure. For compost, you can use raw materials in any form: fresh, liquid, mixed with bedding material. Preparing compost is quite simple - you need to mix (lay in layers) bird manure with any organic material in warm weather. Then sprinkle the resulting pile with a little earth. The decomposition of raw materials takes 1.5-2 months, after which the soil can be fertilized with compost. Experts advise to make compost in the fall, so that it has time to overheat during the winter, and get rid of excess nitrogen.

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