Re: Composting manure

Jacob Johnston wrote:
There was an outbreak of e. coli (I think) from bagged spinach a few
months back. The local farmers spread the stuff from chicken houses
pretty much straight onto their fields but there's not much grown for
human consumption around here, mostly cotton, animal feed corn, and
occassionally soybeans, which if they end up in the human food chain
will be processed enough it won't matter.

I was going to go with the less is more theory and spread a little
bit on the patch instead of mixing it with something. I don't have a
whole lot of chickens and both I and my parents will have plots next
year and theirs tends to be pretty large.

If you compost correctly -- ie get the heat up then you will destroy the
pathogens
What you are talking about using is very different from raw slurry
Get a good book on composting - its an art and quite fascinating.
You will be fine

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Jill Bowis

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Jacob

"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jacob Johnston wrote:
What's the guidelines for aging chicken manure before using it to
fertilize your garden.

One of the main problems is its so strong
What have you mixed it with?
How do you manange your compost?

I was going to use what I clean out of my pens
on my garden next year, but supposedly the food poisoning from the
spinach came from improperly prepared manure.

What food poisoning from spinach?
Intriguing

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regards
Jill Bowis

Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk

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regards
Jill Bowis

Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk


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