I was out feeding my chickens this morning and noticed the manure under the cages was getting up to the bottom of the cage wire.
{I build my cages with the bottoms 12" off the ground}
So after moving the cages back I scraped the manure up with a big hoe, shoveled it into two 5 gallon buckets and carried them out to the barn where I had three 55 gallon barrels waiting. I filled one and will finish tomorrow but I was thinking...
Manure, especially to be used inside a house needs to be 'pasteurized', ie. heated in order to kill anything alive in there. I thought that if I leave this manure in those barrels for a year, then crush it with a 4" x 4" in order to make it look not so much like chicken **** and it will pack better, strain it and heat it to about 300-350 degrees for half an hour then not only would it be rotted down {composted} but then heated in my smoker 5 gallons at a time in a metal bucket; the smoker would lend a BBQ, smokey smell to the manure, being composted it won't stink anyway and I can smoke it free with a wood fire.
A #50 Lb sack of feed can hold 15 gallons of manure and used chicken feed sacks would be appropriate sacking. I have a friend who manages a feed store and raises chickens at home 100's of them so I have an unlimited source of chicken manure.
So what I am getting at is becoming the new Bo Pilgrim, the new Tyson Chicken guy and selling this sxxx for money! Think about it! A new business, that of supplying chicken manure to the entire southwest. I can see it all now! Potting soil sells for $25. a #50 Lb sack and so will:
"Uncle Poet's pasteurized, scented chicken manure" Fifty cents a pound!
Hey! You can't beat that deal!
Uncle Poet
{I build my cages with the bottoms 12" off the ground}
So after moving the cages back I scraped the manure up with a big hoe, shoveled it into two 5 gallon buckets and carried them out to the barn where I had three 55 gallon barrels waiting. I filled one and will finish tomorrow but I was thinking...
Manure, especially to be used inside a house needs to be 'pasteurized', ie. heated in order to kill anything alive in there. I thought that if I leave this manure in those barrels for a year, then crush it with a 4" x 4" in order to make it look not so much like chicken **** and it will pack better, strain it and heat it to about 300-350 degrees for half an hour then not only would it be rotted down {composted} but then heated in my smoker 5 gallons at a time in a metal bucket; the smoker would lend a BBQ, smokey smell to the manure, being composted it won't stink anyway and I can smoke it free with a wood fire.
A #50 Lb sack of feed can hold 15 gallons of manure and used chicken feed sacks would be appropriate sacking. I have a friend who manages a feed store and raises chickens at home 100's of them so I have an unlimited source of chicken manure.
So what I am getting at is becoming the new Bo Pilgrim, the new Tyson Chicken guy and selling this sxxx for money! Think about it! A new business, that of supplying chicken manure to the entire southwest. I can see it all now! Potting soil sells for $25. a #50 Lb sack and so will:
"Uncle Poet's pasteurized, scented chicken manure" Fifty cents a pound!
Hey! You can't beat that deal!
Uncle Poet