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Garden Gate:  which is better horse or cow manure?  |
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Claude09647
True Blue Farmgirl
761 Posts
Claudia
Our Dairy Farm
Pennsylvania
USA
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 Posted - Jul 21 2009 : 2:54:08 PM
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While i am planning my garden for next year, i was just wondering which manure is better?
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 21 2009 : 4:45:15 PM
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I like cow better because of the cud feature. Horses seem to just poop out weed seed.
Just make sure what ever you do you let it age before you plant or till and let it age. I burned up a whole garden one year with the chicken manure it was just to hot.
Diana
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 21 2009 : 5:21:56 PM
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I like cow better too. I had a horse in the past and like Diana said..it just has more weed seeds that make it through. But it is great composted if it is all you can get for sure. Right now I have cow. haha.
Jenny in Utah
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Claude09647
True Blue Farmgirl
761 Posts
Claudia
Our Dairy Farm
Pennsylvania
USA
761 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2009 : 5:22:17 PM
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Thank you for your input Diana!
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Claude09647
True Blue Farmgirl
761 Posts
Claudia
Our Dairy Farm
Pennsylvania
USA
761 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2009 : 5:24:08 PM
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I dont think i'll have trouble getting cow manure...just moved to a 150 cow farm. ha ha
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 21 2009 : 5:29:01 PM
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Yep...sounds like you are set up!! I compost mine...use last year's pile for this year..etc...works great!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jul 21 2009 : 7:54:07 PM
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About 3 years ago I got 5 dump truck loads of dairy cow manure from up the road. Ever since we have been taken over by pig weed. That stuff is awful and I can't get rid of it. I would love to just start fire to the whole garden and burn it up. I think that's the only way to get rid of the nasty stuff. And the manure had been sitting a few years, too. We didn't have pig weed before that. So be careful what's in there!
I use only my goat and chicken manure now. The chickens do a good job of breaking it up for me.
Kris
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mspence
Farmgirl in Training
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Misty
Warrensburg
MO
USA
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Posted - Jul 22 2009 : 2:21:18 PM
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| I know this is not the answer to your question, but I really like rabbit poo. Seriously! I stick it in a big plastic bucket with a lid, add some water, let it sit and repeat for up to five days. When you are done you have a great compost tea. Works great on all my veggies and wont burn! Just a thought. |
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quiltin mama
True Blue Farmgirl
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Heather
Crescent City
CA
USA
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Jenzi
Farmgirl in Training
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Jenna
Berlin
MD
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Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 08:54:46 AM
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| I've always heard that horse manure isnt very good for gardening. And cows have a more vaired diet since they process things so much longer. |
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Claude09647
True Blue Farmgirl
761 Posts
Claudia
Our Dairy Farm
Pennsylvania
USA
761 Posts |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 10:16:10 AM
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alright, thanks all for your thoughts, i will keep them all in mind
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 10:30:31 AM
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Here is some information I got from a Mother earth news book.
Horse Manure:
0.4-0.7 % Nitrogen
0.1-0.3 % Phospherous
0.4-0.6 % Potassium
18-20 % Liquid
Dairy Cattle:
0.3-0.6 % Nitrogen
0.1-0.2 % Phospherous
0.4-0.5 % Potassium
30 % Liquid
Beef Cattle:
0/7 % Nitrogen
0.2-0.3 % Phospherous
0.4 % Potassium
30 % Liquid
Pig:
0.5-0.6 % Nitrogen
0.1-0.4 % Phospherous
0.1-0.5 % Potassium
40 % Liquid
Sheep:
0.6-1.4 % Nitrogen
0.2-0.3 % Phospherous
0.2-1.0 % Potassium
33-35 % Liquid
Hen:
1.1-1.6 % Nitrogen
0.4-1.5 % Phospherous
0.4-0.8 % Potassium
0% Liquid
I just realized that they didn't have a listing for goat, I would think it would be similar to sheep.
I hope this helps someone :)
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 04:48:37 AM
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I would use whatever you got. I get weeds regardless. Some things that have worked for me are, Horse manure works wonders in rhubarb, and raspberries. Never put too much chicken manure on anything. You will get all growth, no fruit. I dump a manure spreader load or two, on my gardens in the fall, or in the spring, composted, or fresh. Then I disk them down.
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Keeper of the Past
True Blue Farmgirl
925 Posts
Sarita
Battle Creek
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 05:47:57 AM
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I have had both. You have to be careful about putting too much on of the cow. My husband wanted to improve a garden spot and cleaned out the cattle barn and put it too deep, it has taken 7 years to get grass to grow on this spot.
It takes a lot of horse manure to make a difference.
I like to compost and have added both manures plus sheep to the compost sparingly. The heat from the compost will kill the weed seeds. I use old straw bedding from the pens in the barn, green grass clippings from the lawn and my peelings and slop from the house plus the corn stocks and cobs and other vines and plants from the garden, leaves from the yard in the fall, etc. We also spread the manure sparingly on the garden in the fall and till it in so it has time to break down by spring. We have more weeds spreading manure other than compost but we cover a larger area and don't buy the fertilizer in the bag in the Spring.
I especially like the horse manure around my fruit trees in the fall, but not cow. Have you ever saw a tree in the pasture where the old cows like to stand and lay in the summer, nothing grows under it and sometimes the tree will die.
Sarita
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