In a message dated 2/8/2005 8:52:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

I use *pollina* that is chicken manure processed in small cylinders
and is organic fertilizer
Actually I have two guinea pigs at home and I was wondering as their
dejectons are solid and probably less acidic tnan poultry's if I
could use their * pebbles* as fertilzer ( very lzzle quantities of
course )

Since animal waste fertilizers must break down into their chemical parts
before being used by plants, they can actually draw nutrients from the soil as
they break down.
Usually animal waste partly composted before being used as fertilizer, thus
reducing the above mentioned problem.

Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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Hi Billy

Billy M. Rhodes wrote:

In a message dated 2/8/2005 8:52:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:


I use *pollina* that is chicken manure processed in small cylinders
SNIP

Since animal waste fertilizers must break down into their chemical parts
before being used by plants, they can actually draw nutrients from the soil as
they break down.
Usually animal waste partly composted before being used as fertilizer, thus
reducing the above mentioned problem.

Ok as we use to do with horse manure that must be composted or
Mature as we say otherwise it burns
thanks


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In a message dated 2/8/2005 10:57:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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Ok as we use to do with horse manure that must be composted or
Mature as we say otherwise it burns
thanks

Chicken manure will burn, I don't know about other animals, but I have
used horse manure as it came from the barn, mixed with saw dust.
Many years ago I lived in Northern San Diego County, California. My father
was big into getting free fertilizer from the dairy and chicken farms in the San
Luis Rey Valley, which I got to spread after school.
We always mixed the chicken manure with the local adobe soil at about 1 to 1
ratio and it worked fine.
A neighbor got a load of chicken manure and spread it heavily on his lawn.
Killed every blade of grass and smelled of chicken manure every time it rained
for years. (Which in that climate, in those years, wasn't much. THANKFULLY)

Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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Billy M. Rhodes wrote:

-Snip -
I cannot get fresh chicken manure anyway , I know that my father
always told me it was too acidic and t burn plants
The horse manure I can get ,some in my nerby botanic garden and is a
dead one ,already mixed with clay and straw , and even that has to be
put in the bottom of the well for roses and covered with soil on
which will rest rose roots I use it very seldom for maple or in
rotation with othe
rs fertilizers
We have cow manure horse manure and poultry's
I bought some poultry's and is processed looks like small
cylinders and normally I put 4. 7 on the pot between roots and the pot
edge .. but for instance not on pentatphilla as I read they hate rotten
fertilizer so for Penta I use japanese fertilizer only

In a message dated 2/8/2005 10:57:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:


Ok as we use to do with horse manure that must be composted or
Mature as we say otherwise it burns
thanks


Chicken manure will burn, I don't know about other animals, but I have
used horse manure as it came from the barn, mixed with saw dust.
Many years ago I lived in Northern San Diego County, California. My father
was big into getting free fertilizer from the dairy and chicken farms in the San
Luis Rey Valley, which I got to spread after school.
We always mixed the chicken manure with the local adobe soil at about 1 to 1
ratio and it worked fine.
A neighbor got a load of chicken manure and spread it heavily on his lawn.
Killed every blade of grass and smelled of chicken manure every time it rained
for years. (Which in that climate, in those years, wasn't much. THANKFULLY)

Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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Does anyone know about using rabbit manure? I've got two of them and
lord knows they produce enough of it. We use "Yesterday's News" litter
which is made of recycled newspaper.

-Brian

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Brian Hagan wrote:

Does anyone know about using rabbit manure? I've got two of them and
lord knows they produce enough of it. We use "Yesterday's News" litter
which is made of recycled newspaper.
well it is the same answer than for guinea pig manure goat manure
sheep manure deer manure and so on all needs to be composted first to
loose the acidity and salts

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Excreta of HERBEVOROUS animals is good manure provided it is well rotted.
Cow and Buffalo dung manure is very popular in Indian sub-continent and used
extensively to enrich the soil with macro and micro elements. It is used
more as a buffer to improve the texture and quality of the soil, than as a
fertilizer. But if it is not well rotted, it can be equally bad. While it
rots, it releases toxins which can be extremely harmful to the roots.

Anil Kaushik
Bonsai Club (India)
Chandigarh "The City Beautiful"


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Brian Hagan wrote:

Does anyone know about using rabbit manure? I've got two of them and
lord knows they produce enough of it. We use "Yesterday's News" litter
which is made of recycled newspaper.
well it is the same answer than for guinea pig manure goat manure
sheep manure deer manure and so on all needs to be composted first to
loose the acidity and salts

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In a message dated 2/9/2005 4:11:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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Excreta of HERBEVOROUS animals is good manure provided it is well rotted.
It is used more as a buffer to improve the texture and quality of the soil,
than as a
fertilizer. But if it is not well rotted, it can be equally bad. While it
rots, it releases toxins which can be extremely harmful to the roots.

Anil Kaushik

Can you be more specific concerning the "toxins?" I know that:
1. depending upon the diet of the animal and possibly how the
manure is collected their may be "salts" in the manure that would need to
leach out in a compost pile.
2. fresh manure, as it breaks down, can draw nitrogen from
the soil instead of adding to it.
3. some manure (chicken, but I wouldn't think ruminants) can
contain too much nitrate and that can burn plants and roots.

Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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Billy M. Rhodes wrote:

In a message dated 2/9/2005 4:11:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:


Excreta of HERBEVOROUS animals is good manure provided it is well rotted.
It is used more as a buffer to improve the texture and quality of the soil,
than as a
fertilizer. But if it is not well rotted, it can be equally bad. While it
rots, it releases toxins which can be extremely harmful to the roots.

Anil Kaushik


Can you be more specific concerning the "toxins?" I know that:
1. depending upon the diet of the animal and possibly how the
manure is collected their may be "salts" in the manure that would need to
leach out in a compost pile.
2. fresh manure, as it breaks down, can draw nitrogen from
the soil instead of adding to it.
3. some manure (chicken, but I wouldn't think ruminants) can
contain too much nitrate and that can burn plants and roots.
I guess that are mixed urines too, that means clorure of sodium
and ammonia.. at high levels


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I use a fert I buy from this guy on ebay called Biogreen which is some sort
of organic Fert. They look like rabbit pellets. I would be careful of the
amounts. They can burn if too much is used. I never use commercial ferts on my
Bonsai at their recommended doseage. I always reduce doseage by at least 1/2

SteveW
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HI

Steven Wachs wrote:

I use a fert I buy from this guy on ebay called Biogreen which is some sort
of organic Fert. They look like rabbit pellets. I would be careful of the
amounts. They can burn if too much is used. I never use commercial ferts on my
Bonsai at their recommended doseage. I always reduce doseage by at least 1/2
so do I , if you leave tehm on teh soil surface change tehm of place
the following 3 weeks when exausted..
I prefer put some 5 -10 pellets ( it depends how many plants you
need to fertilize ) in the water leave soaking 1 hour and give the
water to my plants .. I waste less fertilizer

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Billy

Thank you for refreshing my knowledge on these three points. As far the toxins,
a few years ago one Professor from Punjab Agriculture University gave a talk on
fertilizers and manures for plants. During that comprehensive talk he had said
that when the manure starts fermenting it give off some gases and produces some
substances which are harmful to the roots especially the tender ones. I cannot
recollect the name of those substances but perhaps it was "cryptogams" (I am
afraid if I remember it correctly). In nutshell to prevent root scorching, one
should use only well rotted (about a year old) manure.

With this I will request Nina and Jim to elaborate on this.

Anil Kaushik
Bonsai Club (India)
Chandigarh "The City Beautiful"



Billy M. Rhodes wrote:

In a message dated 2/9/2005 4:11:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:


Excreta of HERBEVOROUS animals is good manure provided it is well rotted.
It is used more as a buffer to improve the texture and quality of the soil,
than as a
fertilizer. But if it is not well rotted, it can be equally bad. While it
rots, it releases toxins which can be extremely harmful to the roots.

Anil Kaushik


Can you be more specific concerning the "toxins?" I know that:
1. depending upon the diet of the animal and possibly how
the
manure is collected their may be "salts" in the manure that would need to
leach out in a compost pile.
2. fresh manure, as it breaks down, can draw nitrogen from
the soil instead of adding to it.
3. some manure (chicken, but I wouldn't think ruminants) can
contain too much nitrate and that can burn plants and roots.
I guess that are mixed urines too, that means clorure of sodium
and ammonia.. at high levels


Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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Anil Kaushik wrote:

Billy

Thank you for refreshing my knowledge on these three points. As far the toxins,
a few years ago one Professor from Punjab Agriculture University gave a talk on
fertilizers and manures for plants. During that comprehensive talk he had said
that when the manure starts fermenting it give off some gases and produces some
substances which are harmful to the roots especially the tender ones. I cannot
recollect the name of those substances but perhaps it was "cryptogams" (I am
afraid if I remember it correctly). In nutshell to prevent root scorching, one
should use only well rotted (about a year old) manure.

With this I will request Nina and Jim to elaborate on this.
paysantry do that since ever
the manure coming from factories is piled up with ald straw and
is let fermenting and weather under elements rain sun and so on ..
when the crops are harvested the soil is worked and this manure is
dispensed and mixed with soil so will takes 2 months of rain snow and
elements to mature it, moreover is diluted

I do not know if this year /when manured ) the soil is left to grow
wild herbs or erba medica for animal feeding or less importants ones
that provide to the soil others elements and the following year they
seed wheat or similar
I think that the proceed should be more or less this one ..


Anil Kaushik
Bonsai Club (India)
Chandigarh "The City Beautiful"




Billy M. Rhodes wrote:


In a message dated 2/9/2005 4:11:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:



Excreta of HERBEVOROUS animals is good manure provided it is well rotted.
It is used more as a buffer to improve the texture and quality of the soil,
than as a
fertilizer. But if it is not well rotted, it can be equally bad. While it
rots, it releases toxins which can be extremely harmful to the roots.

Anil Kaushik


Can you be more specific concerning the "toxins?" I know that:
1. depending upon the diet of the animal and possibly how

the

manure is collected their may be "salts" in the manure that would need to
leach out in a compost pile.
2. fresh manure, as it breaks down, can draw nitrogen from
the soil instead of adding to it.
3. some manure (chicken, but I wouldn't think ruminants) can
contain too much nitrate and that can burn plants and roots.

I guess that are mixed urines too, that means clorure of sodium
and ammonia.. at high levels


Billy on the Florida Space Coast


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On 9 Feb 2005 at 22:26, Anil Kaushik wrote:

Billy

Thank you for refreshing my knowledge on these three points. As far the toxins,
a few years ago one Professor from Punjab Agriculture University gave a talk on
fertilizers and manures for plants. During that comprehensive talk he had said
that when the manure starts fermenting it give off some gases and produces some
substances which are harmful to the roots especially the tender ones. I cannot
recollect the name of those substances but perhaps it was "cryptogams" (I am
afraid if I remember it correctly). In nutshell to prevent root scorching, one
should use only well rotted (about a year old) manure.

With this I will request Nina and Jim to elaborate on this.



I doubt that this constitutes "elaboration" but I'll add that
"raw" manure (manure right from the source, so to speak) will
release highly soluble nitrogen compounds and ammonia, both of
which will burn plant roots if applied heavily. Raw manure from
herbivoires also will contain weed seeds.

Use manure via the compost pile or by making "manure tea."

Rodale give this formula for manure tea:

Place one or two shovelfuls of raw manure into permeable bag
(the finer the weave the better). Burlap is good. Tie the bag
closed and place in a barrel or other large container filled
with water. Steep for about a week (2 weeks is OK).

Use full strength as a fertilizer applied alone, like every 2
weeks or so). Or, dilute it and use it when you water your
trees.

Here's a table (again courtesy of Rodale) showing the NPK
analysis (percentages) of "typical" manures.

Chicken 1.1 - 0.8 - 0.5
Cow 0.6 - 0.2 - 0.5
Duck 0.6 - 1.4 - 0.5
Horse 0.7 - 0.3 - 0.6
Pig 0.5 - 0.3 - 0.5
Rabbit 2.4 - 1.4 - 0.6
Sheep 0.7 - 0.3 - 0.9
Steer 0.7 - 0.3 - 0.4

I have no idea why "steer" is different from "cow" (fertilizer-
wise, I mean.) ;-)

Do NOT use manure from carnivoires or omnivoires; it can contain
organisms that are harmful to us.

At any rate, these all constitute a fairly weak fertilizer.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
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In a message dated 2/9/2005 6:25:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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I have no idea why "steer" is different from "cow" (fertilizer-
wise, I mean.) ;-)


Milk? Wouldn't producing milk/calves use more of some elements than a steer
would?
Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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