A different way to manage manure.

[Farmer Kitty]

Mare,

Manure spreaders work great to get the manure from the barn, etc. to the field to be spread. Composting it for your garden is a great way to use it.

 

[Thewife]

I'm just so thrilled that I finally have a manure spreader and I can spread poop all over my farm, making my pastures a pretty green, the thought of burning it sounds just plain wrong!

I saw the dirty jobs with the manure flower pots, that was cool!

When you run out of fields to spread it on, turning it into gas, heat and power is an attractive option. It will save us about $1000.00/month by doing this.

Actually, the thought of tossing in a few poop bricks, instead of having to cut fire wood, sounds good to me!
But, right now I have fire wood everywhere, if I don't burn it in the house, I am spending hours outside burning it to get it out of my fields!
My fields REALLY need the manure! They have been used and abused for years. Parts of them were logged and dozed a few times, so there is really very little top soil or nutrients left!

 

[wynedot55]

well you can spead 25 tons of manure to the ac every year.it will take 5 to 10yrs to really build your soil back up.do you plant winter pasture such as rye grass vetch or clover on them.

 

[Thewife]

well you can spead 25 tons of manure to the ac every year.it will take 5 to 10yrs to really build your soil back up.do you plant winter pasture such as rye grass vetch or clover on them.

I've done some seeding with a broadcast spreader, not sure what I was spreading! The manure off the slab, and out of the pens has seed in it too. I just started spreading this past fall and I can see deeper green where I have spread and all sorts of baby grasses coming up!

 

[wynedot55]

keep up the good work.an keep speading the manure.