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Fresh Donkey Manure
Nollie
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I have recently been given a load of this. It's from purely grass-fed donkeys and is very light in colour and texture, no smell, very different from horse manure. I know it’s pretty fresh but it does crumble in the hand.
I mixed lots of it into my compost heaps, but have loads left. As it seems less, er, potent, would it be safe to mix in my veg beds and burying in planting holes for roses etc? Say, if I mixed and watered it in and left it for a month?
I mixed lots of it into my compost heaps, but have loads left. As it seems less, er, potent, would it be safe to mix in my veg beds and burying in planting holes for roses etc? Say, if I mixed and watered it in and left it for a month?
Has anyone used it before and can attest to it’s potency/ability to burn roots?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Nollie found this which says it needs to stand for a while......
https://www.nation.co.ke/business/seedsofgold/Letters-to-the-editor-donkey-waste-manure-/2301238-3247644-nxjhlb/index.html
It has sat around here for nearly three weeks already, and that site @StillLearning was helpful, seems to need not nearly as long as you need to leave horse manure, usually.
Donkeys seems to be mainly kept to keep the verges and orchards chomped around here. There is also a really cute pair of miniature horses, Fabellas I think, that do the same job and are passed around depending on where needs a trim!