Re: Aged chicken manure compost or rabbit compost?
Where I live I have an almost unlimited amount of chicken, sheep, and cow manure. The chicken manure I let it age in an uncovered pile for at least a year. The cow I collect the older stuff. I have been testing all 3 to see what seems to do best. Both the cow and sheep is also mixed with a lot of old hay. The chicken and sheep seem to make new growth faster however the chicken it is easy to over do it and causes spots on the leafs and the cigar leaf. The chicken even after a couple years of aging will still burn if you over do it. The cow is more like dirt now and is the main part of my potting mix with a lot of perlite. My favorite so far is the sheep. I have even potted a pup in pure sheep manure and it grew fine. The water running out the bottom looked like coffee each time I watered. It is pelitized like rabbit and in the past when I had rabbits it seems pretty similar. (In my head anyway, I'm no expert and not sure how the NPK compares). Just thought I would share my experience over the past few years with other plants and bananas. Chicken is great and requires less but be sure to use a little at a time.
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