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BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
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After seeing the discussion about chicken manure on another thread I was wondering if pelleted cow or horse manure is any better? Any thoughts on that? 

I like to keep things organic so I am using blood fish and bone at the moment plus liquid seaweed at times. 

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Any bird manure is very high in nitrogen. Cow or horse manure comes from a herbivore and contains a lot of fibre and lower nutrients.  I think cow or horse manure is a good method of adding humus to the soil for long term benefits.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Being on clay soil here it might be good for here. Although I heard there'd less weed seeds in cow manure as they digest it more. 
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    It's very good for clay soil! I'd like to be organic, too, but it's worth knowing that chicken poo and blood fish and bone are both irresistible to foxes and dogs.
  • PurplerainPurplerain Posts: 1,053
    I use 6x sparingly. I think it derives from chicken manure, but it seems to work. If I am honest, I am scared of it, but my garden seems to like it.
    SW Scotland
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Posy said:
    It's very good for clay soil! I'd like to be organic, too, but it's worth knowing that chicken poo and blood fish and bone are both irresistible to foxes and dogs.
    Yes posy but luckily we have no foxes here. When I was a new Gardener and living in the UK I once left a bag of b, f & b out over night. Foxes ate the whole bag. 
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Ooh, I wonder how they felt next day!
  • Mike AllenMike Allen Posts: 208
    I have to agree with fidgetbones, I sense he/she is scientifically supported.  In the past.  Chicken manure was voodoo.  Chemically it retained something of a high biological temperature that in eary days was perhaps considered as being harmful to plants roots.  Time and tides have passed and more and more scientific discoveries have come to lite.  Here in th field of horticulture it is like a game og squash.

    YES we as gardeners soon bcome naturalists and mini scientists.  Using chemicals.  PLEASE.  STOP and read the label.
  • SlumSlum Posts: 385
    Bijdezee said:
    After seeing the discussion about chicken manure on another thread I was wondering if pelleted cow or horse manure is any better? Any thoughts on that? 

    I like to keep things organic so I am using blood fish and bone at the moment plus liquid seaweed at times. 

    What do mean by better?
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    @Slum Iask this because the rhs says its low nutrient and I wondered if horse or cow was higher in nutrients. On further reading it seems they're not. I think the comparison was to inorganic fertilisers. 
  • SlumSlum Posts: 385
    I see. As you say the inorganic types tend to have higher NPK values but the organic types will often release nutrients over a longer period. I guess it depends on the requirements of what you're growing, soil condition, attitude to use of chemicals, etc.
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