Organic pelleted Chicken manure

Bought some organic pelleted chicken manure from B&Q, buy-one-get-one-free, seemed like a bargain. Have any of you had experience of using it and how beneficial is it?

Chris

 

i love the stuff chuck some in with everything i plant and throw a few handfuls around bamboos ,everything takes a growth spurt within a few days

 

I'm surprised that B&Q are selling Organic Chicken manure? ... but sounds like a good deal!

Its slightly higher in N than P or K - so better for things that are actively growing, rather than Fruiting. You may need a bit more than, say, granular Growmore 'coz it doesn't have as much N-P-K per unit weight.

I think I have read that sometimes it attracts foxes (or is that Bonemeal?) 'coz they go "Hmmm ... Chicken ... "

But other than that its good stuff :thumb:

 

Not as good a the 'real thing' from our hens, but I still use lots of it, including making into a 'tea'.

Then 10Kg tubs are very ofter sold off cheap by garden centres when they're starting to look weather worn. I bought loads from Homebase early this year at around £4.50 each. Empty containers make useful size weeding buckets.


Looking at B&Qs website it's £8.68 for 10Kg B&Q Chicken Poo

If that's the stuff on BOGOF in store it seems like a very good deal indeed. But I can't see "Organic" on that tub.

 

The first thing I'd ask is, is it really 'organic' in the true sense of the word? Whilst the pellets themselves may be organic, unless the chickens were reared organically, the pellets are often just a by-product of battery farming.

That said, chicken pellets are 'nitrogen' heavy so they'll be good for leaf growth on things like brassicas, they'll also improve the soil structure and make it more moisture retentive, but I certainly wouldn't consider them to be a 'general fertilizer' - others of course, may feel differently.

 

organic bit doesnt bother me im not bothered if it it or not i just love the stuff gives a boost to new planting ,my garden also gets about 20 ton of lovely cow poo from my friends croft every year and boy do the neighbours love it

 

That reminds me, if you use them as a top dressing when it (if it ever?) rains they stink for a while.

 

it rains about 85 % of the time with us mmmm that lovely aroma you gotta love it

 

I went down to our local B&Q and bought two of their buckets of chicken pellets and thought they were good value until I wanted to buy some more and happened to look in our QD store to see if they had some and was surprised to see they were half the price of the ones being sold by B&Q so we got another couple of buckets and I stood outside the shop while Mr Kandy fetched the car as they were too heavy to carry{one each}.

We have bought the ones at the garden centre when they have been selling them off cheap as Scrungee says but won't buy them when they go up in price at the start of the season.We have compost sacks full of compost and also leaves but find it isn't enough for our 30pole of allotment and I do use the pellets in my garden and they do pong a bit for some time afterwards but once they have been washed in the plants do benefit from it

 

I regularly check out the prices in my local QD Store, some good buys to be had in there occasionally. QD Storefinder

Although they don't have any at the moment, Morrisons quite often have 10Kg buckets for £6, which I've got down to £5 by getting them when there's been a £5 off a £30 shop voucher in one of the newspapers.

But I had a look at the chicken manure at B&Q whilst shopping this morning and it didn't appear to be organic, nor was there any mention of it being on BOGOF.

 

we dont have a qd store,infact never heard of it before our stores are 60 miles away so 120mile round trip whenever i need some supplies

 

Love the stuff used it for years, I put it round everything as a top dressing in spring just as everything's starting in to growth; lightly rake it in and water it to help start breaking down if no rain is imminant...

 

The b&q brand of chicken manure does say organic, if you look on the website, it tells you near the bottom. but here also, didnt see bogof in my local b&q.

 

Whoops, missed that bit.

Being one of those 'lazy gardeners' I very often scatter it on the surface of the ground before hoeing weeds, so I can do two jobs at once.