I've never composted sheep, or any other animal, although I once composted a couple of steaks that were in the freezer during a power outage.

I would think that sheep would be no better or worse than any other animal you could add to the compost.

Here is a link to a thread about Montana composting whole deers. If it works for deers, it should work for sheep, as well.

I've read that it's good, rabbit is the best supposedly, but they'll all work good. I have not personally used sheep doodie just bat guano and chicken and duck doo doo.

Sheep manure is considered by some people as the best manure there is, but there is no relationship there to reality, just an ill considered opinion. Any manure, composted, is a good soil amendment along with lots of high Carbon materials needed to help hold the water soluble nutrients the manures have in the soil.

Well, here's my 'ill considered opinion'...

I like the stuff. It's cheap and it does wonders for the gardens. I add it to my own compost in the spring when preparing the gardens for the season.

percentage by weight of macronutrients [N P K] found in commonly available manures: Cow - N 0.50, P 0.20, K 0.50/ Horse - N 0.60, P 0.20, K 0.50/ Sheep - N 1.00, P 0.30, K 1.00/ Chicken - N 1.50, P 0.75, K 0.50/ Rabbit - N 2.40, P 1.40, K 0.60. Rabbit crap has 2.4 times as much nitrogen almost 5 times as much P. but only 60% of the K. compared to the sheep crap.

percentage by weight of macronutrients [N P K] found in commonly available manures: Cow - N 0.50, P 0.20, K 0.50/ Horse - N 0.60, P 0.20, K 0.50/ Sheep - N 1.00, P 0.30, K 1.00/ Chicken - N 1.50, P 0.75, K 0.50/ Rabbit - N 2.40, P 1.40, K 0.60. Rabbit crap has 2.4 times as much nitrogen almost 5 times as much P. but only 60% of the K. compared to the sheep crap.
Huh???????
Sheep, goat and rabbit poop are great! Horse, cow and chicken are hot and will burn your plants
Don't know if this helps? Nancy

Huuuuuuuh???????????????? No, Misinformation will not help Nancy, fresh sheep poop is hotter than both cow and horse poop according to my research. No manure will burn your plants if it is composted correctly. Only put "hot" crap from any animal around plants you want to kill.

A simple means to ensure that the manure does not "burn" your plants is to compost it before applying it to the garden and never apply fresh manure to a growing garden. If fresh manure is to be put in your garden it should be done in the fall after the crop is harvested and before your winter cover crop is planted. You will simply loose more nutrients to the atmosphere if fresh manure is put down on a planted garden because you cannot easily work that into the soil.

fresh sheep or fresh gost manure will not burn plants up'
chicken manure will. cow and horse manure is to dangerous
to use fresh'for they do not have 3 stomach system like sheep and goats. and no sheep poop is no where near as hot as cow or horse manure' take it from somebody thats raised all of the above and more and expermented with manure in garden several years and then some.

forgot to add fresh horse and cow manure will burn up your plants nancy is 100 percent correct.

thanks

"fresh sheep or fresh gost manure will not burn plants"

I have had good luck with all of the manures commonly used, but there seems to be a shortage of "gost manure" here. Since last night was Halloween, I will go out and see what I can find. Can you really see gost manure?

Just trying to have some fun. Happy gardening....Bill

sorry about misspell i ment [goat manure] lol '''
funny how that came out on halloween

happy gardenig

Ed

luvorganic, you are right about horses and cows not having 3 stomachs like sheep and goats. Cows have 4 stomachs and horses have 1.

I apoligize luvorganic, I should have done more research before submitting my last message. Cows, Sheep, and Goats all have 4 stomachs, and so do deer, moose, elk, buffalo, and giraffe.

I apoligize luvorganic
if you count there ruman they do have 4 stomachs
should have done my home work'i apoligize.

If you happen to be in africa collect some of that
giraffe poop and let me know how it works.
lol'jking
ed

"No, Misinformation will not help Nancy, fresh sheep poop is hotter than both cow and horse poop according to my research. "

actually nancy knows exactly what she is talking about, sheep poo is not hot and doesnt burn plants

TG

I guess you guys are right. The npk content would not make the poop hotter it would just matter how far the grass was broken down. So I guess the horse with 1 stomach wouldn't break it down as far so there would be alot more grass in the poop and make it hotter when it's fresh. I'm not planning on going to africa, but I do see deer doo on my property. At least it tasted like deer doo!

Can you buy composted sheep manure?????? If so who makes it?