Poop? Chicken, rabbit, or cow?

Newby here ain't quite sure which is better. The first two are free for the asking. I have 2 beds about 10'x2' mostly sand. This summer I killed most everything. I have little of the wally world (aka wallmart) cheap soil. I like to know which would be better of the poop to mix in and should I also throw some 3 year old hay in it. I hope a fall/winter garden might produce a little more so I can actually cook something for the whole family. LOL

Here's the NPK of many manures: http://davesgarden.com/guides/terms/go/2112.html

From personal experience, I think rabbit is milder and easier to work with than chicken manure. But if it's going to over-winter and compost before being used, that might not matter much.

Kind of like to plant this week thing like mustards, colards ,cabbage, etc.. Is there hope?

I've worked rabbit berries into the soil in my beds and planted immediately. I don't think I'd recommend it with chicken manure...it's way too "hot" and will burn the plants.

Chicken is super hot. Nitrogen levels have to be really high. Be careful with that or you'll burn stuff up even after it is composted. I've never used rabbit but I've heard it is really good. Cow manure needs to be composted to kill the grass seed that is in it. Use it with out it going through a good compost heat and you'll work your self to death trying to get rid of the grass. The seeds come straight through a cow.

l would think that you could mix the rabbit into your beds and not have any trouble, providing you don't over do it.

Rabbits are vegetarian, so the risk of disease organisms is very low; chickens will eat insects and even bits of animal flesh if it's small enough. As Jim41 said, I'd work it in good before planting.

I have 2 breeding does and a daddy for them and have lots of rabbit poo for my garden.
I mix it into the soil and had only good results.
I also make tea from it and water the potted plants.
Power to Rabbit POO ^_^

Vote for bunny poo here too. I have two house rabbits that produce enough waste with newspaper & timothy to balance out the kitchen scraps in the compost pile quite nicely. My plants are very happy so far.

Rabbit droppings are the safest of any manure to use and can be added directly into the soil at planting time. That is the least likely of all manures to burn plants or add harmful bacteria to your garden.

http://www.plantea.com/manure.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1534255/rabbit_manure_tea_to_make_roses_bloom.html?cat=32

My friend bred rabbits and would put their droppings directly into her house plants.

Rabbit poo it is thank ya'll some much!! I let ya know how it goes..

definately cow,cows have 2 stomachs.theres never any weed seeds in it....lately lilium growers have shyed away from animal manures,and chosen organic,because of bulb rot

We have a poop machine in our pasture so we use horse manure.

I hate to disagree with g_whizz, but cow poop is full of grass seed. The reason you grind or crip corn or oats before you feed them to a cow is because they come straight through her. Grass seed do the same thing. Take it from an old cattle man.

thanks for that jim,you learn something new every dayand if you dont,try to learn 2 things the next day..i was only going from info old folk had told me,regarding manure.maybe they might have been talking manure.

It is because of the grass seed that you have to let cow and horse manure "cook" or age for a time...the heat generated from the breakdown of the manure kills the grass seed. On the other hand, Bunnies seem to poop pure, gentle fertilizer....lol

well this is reassuring, since I just found bunny poop in my back yard today....I believe they have made a little winter home out there.

Now if ya can just get them to poop where ya want the new bed to be.....grin

right, I need to train 'em...*grin*

I've got a picture of Lynnie potty training bunnings in my mind. Good jobbbb, girl.

hahaha if I can train the kids, I could train bunnies...kids were stubborn!

Mamma set I was hard to train. The other kids wet the bed, I always crawled up on the pillow.

I bet you were a stubborn one! Jim check out my new tree...yeah, I'll have to do some pruning on it.....

Had purchased and used packaged composted cow and sheep manure for a number of years. Have not seen grass growing from either, but have got to recognize the particular weeds that we get from them. They include wild mustard. As indicated above, the heat from a well built compost heap is supposed to kill weed seeds.

The only commercially weed-free compost I've purchased here is marine compost. Believe mushroom compost, from growers, is weed free too. Don't know about chicken manure, but our lawn got red thread after a chicken feather application.

Suspect rabbit dropping might be pretty disease free since was taught that a rabbit adaptation to digesting tough plant material is to eating their own feces.

Our neighbor must have had 100 show rabbits in his barn. He'd put their manure on his garden every year. He grew the best tomatoes I ever tasted.

Interesting read with my morning coffee and far superior to reading about slugs.

LOL Pirl....Neither one go really well with breakfast....but, wonder what form of 'organic' fertilizer and slug control the winner of the Daylily auction will use on her $1075 plants.....grin

IF I were crazed enough to want to spend $1,075. on one item it would be fertilizer and not one plant.

I enjoy the talk of manure but not slugs.

I hear ya. At least the former is beneficial and helps build up a garden, while the latter brings it down.

I really like this manure thread. Had a lot of experience with it. Full of it myself to hear some folks talk.

Love the tree Lynnie.

Where you been hiding Pirl. We birthday folks got to stay in touch.

Ha!

Up on the rocky coast of Maine to rest before finishing autumn jobs that should have been done in summer, Jim. Loved the pumpkin decorating in Damriscotta!

Gotta love a place where people so openly discuss POO!! : )

This is a "poopular" thread.

I think this thread should be a sticky called "the scoop on poop".

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Daisy, perhaps that is because only gardeners realize the true benefits and advantages of manure....or that so many of us are full of it....grin

I love this thread!

I'm posting my bi-annual request on Craiglist for bunny poop, I get fun answers, but I also find bunny poop for free. It is amazing how many people have bunnies. I put it in the gardens with the chopped leaves in the fall, in the early spring I top off the veggie garden with it. Great stuff bunny poop.

An original song for cathy 4. Poopy in the morning, poopy in the evening, poopy at supper time. You can find bunny poopy, just about any time.

haha, thanks Jim.

I knew I had all these dang animals for a reason.