Chicken manure, often called "black gold," provides one of the most nutrient-rich boosts for your soil. Different types of chicken manure exist, with variations in quality and composition. You can ...

The following is an excerpt from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green, 2010). In his humorous, anecdotal manifesto, Logsdon imparts how to transform farm, pet and ...

Organic fertilizers carry a reputation for being gentle and forgiving. Many gardeners assume that because something is ...

How many chickens do I need to keep on winter garden beds to leave the optimum amount of manure for next season’s crops without “overfertilizing” with chicken manure? Chicken manure is high in ...

The comeback of backyard chicken-keeping is all about getting back to sustainable living. Each chicken not only gives you a fresh egg daily but also leaves you with quite a bit of manure - like a ...

An international collaboration between researchers from Brazil and the United States has identified a process for turning poultry waste into a soil additive for agriculture. "Several countries have ...

Lee Blaney tells people he has the best-smelling lab on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He’s joking. The environmental engineer and his team operate reactors ...

Chicken manure is the best organic fertilizer for the production of Napier grass, results of a three-year study of the PCC at MMSU (Philippine Carabao Center at the Mariano Marcos State University) ...

On an average day at the Güres Group facility in Turkey, around 14 million chickens lay 2.7 million eggs for distribution around the country and in nearby regions. While the production feats are, no ...