Doff ready to use organic chicken manure

Hi people,

I went for a walk to my local B&M store around the corner from my work on my dinner break. They are selling Doff - ready to use organic chicken manure, 3KG, for £4.97 by one get one free.

I have an allotment and missed out on the horse manure delivery and i'm slightly concerned about this years crops if i dont get any goodness back into the soil. I was thinking of spreading this all over the place.

Im going to be creating several raised beds this year to help me manage my plot better and to improve the heavy clay soil that i currently have. I'll be building these over the next couple of months.

I have a couple of questions:

1: Is chicken manure any good? Is it worth the investment? (i know its not much but it all adds up)

2: As i'll be building raised beds, i wont be able to get these finished until a couple of months time ready for my seedlings to go into it. Will it then be too late to feed with the chicken manure? ie. does it need to ideally be scattered now?

many thanks in advance

 

6Kg for £4.97 = 83p/Kg

@Craig1987

It's only 40p/Kg at B&Q (10Kg for £4) http://www.diy.com/rooms/verve-chic...3_1424272477_8b35865f1e0258f0be51c42fd9d40276 Plus my guess is that 3Kg from B&M comes in a cardboard box, when the stuff from B&Q is in a handy plastic tub that can be left outside in the rain, or in a polytunnel with condensation dripping from the roof.

I use it all the time and got quite a few sacks from Homebase several years ago when it was about 33p/Kg (£4.99 for 15Kg sack). There's an old thread on chicken poo uses somewhere, if I can't readily find it I'll add some stuff here.

N.B. If the price instore shows as something different, get a price check as they probably haven't changed the label.

P.S. I think this was the cheapest I got chicken poo pellets for, 3Kg for £1.50 PLUS BOGOF, so 75p/box, only 25p/Kg (multi-saves work on reduced items at Homebase).

 

Yes Craig, chicken manure is great. I started using it a couple of years ago as I can no longer shift the weight of horse manure, so use these instead for my roses. I scatter them around and tickle them into the soil surface, the rain does the rest. I also use them elsewhere but I have found some mature plants failed to flower putting on growth instead, so I tend to use them on beds late winter. I'm not a vegetable grower so how they would respond to the pellets I don't know.

I'd be careful using it on a bed that seedlings are going into, it may make them outgrow their strength. I'd be inclined to dig in some blood, fish and bone instead which isn't quite so strong.

 

I've used these now for 4 years and had good crops.As farmyard manure was starting to get expensive I tried it and was very pleased.For potatoes I apply 1 handful to about 2 meters per row,then when ready to bank up I apply 1 hand full per square meter,for every thing else I grow I apply 1 hand full per square meter and just rake it in.you can also make a liquid feed for tomatoes etc,I put a small hand full into a 2 ltr watering can stir well leave to infuse and then just water each plant.

 

Thanks for the heads up Scrungee, I'll head to B&Q instead

Thanks for the advise guys. It was the potato's that I were most worried about.

I'll certainly be adding pellets to my spud patch!

I'll have to do some research on the affects of the pellets on the other crops I want to grow

 

Couldn't find any chicken pellets at B&Q. Closet thing they had was chicken manure compost .

I went across the road to Wilko's, 7KG for £4.50, reduced from £6. Bought a tub.

I'll be keeping an eye out for the end of season deals Scrungee!

Thanks for the advice everyone above

 

Did you look inside the store with the feeds, weedkillers, etc? Trouble is they've increased the price to £6.