http://www.vegetablegardener.com/item/8156/rabbit-manure-in-the-garden

I've seen composted chicken manure before that looks like large granules. It seems like this says that their cold (aged) rabbit manure pellets work as slow release.

Michael. I get pelleted chicken manure Chikity Doo Doo is the brand from my local Ace, I ordered online and gets delivered with no shipping costs.

Silvia

Silvia, do you order through the main Ace website or one for your local store? I checked the main one and can not find the product. I also went to Chikity's website and they do not list a retailer within 75 miles of me.

Michael, I ordered online through Ace, paid for it and got delivered to my local store. It took less than a week and I think it was 7 pounds for about 9$. Maybe if you talk to your local store, they can order for you.

Silvia

ouch! a bit pricey

what is wrong with dehydrated manure? If it is organic it is "slow release".

Different manures bring different things to the soil. From what I have gathered, chicken pellets are one of the best for a broad range of micro nutrients and not just macros. They're supposed to be especially good for potted plants.

Michael, I can attest to chicken manure bring great for gardening. I've had chickens for some 20 years and all their doo doo goes in hubby's compost bins then to the flower and veggie beds. The first gardening season in FL I didn't have very much to spread because we used most of it up north before the move and only had a few bucketsfull to bring with us. There was a noticeable difference in the plants.

If I could keep chickens, I would. Since starting my herb garden I have really enjoyed having a morning, afternoon or even an evening herb and cheese omelette. Having my own source of fresh eggs would be just awesome. And having my own source of chicken manure? Beyond awesome. But as I am currently in a mobile home park (hate using that description as it is not as run-down as the stereotypical mobile home park), the is a restriction against having chickens. But when we move on to our own land...

I have toyed with the idea of getting a couple of rabbits, but aside from their manure, I really don't know what I would get from keeping them aside from having to fight off the foxes and hawks trying to get into their cage.

Chicken manure is hot and will burn unless composted. Not so rabbit droppings. Years ago I raised rabbits for meat production. I had copious quantities of the rabbit stuff. I limed it regularly to absorb the urine. The droppings remained pretty much droppings. I never composted the stuff. As soon as I got a few inches in the manure trough, it went on the plants. I'd put as much as 3 or 4 inches of it on the ground in the garden. It was a nice combination much/fertilizer, and it didn't stink like some of the large animal manures sometimes do. There is a guy in Brooksville that advertizes on craig's list. He sells what looks like rabbit feed sacks of it for $5. I am planning to mulch my garlic and onions with rabbit doo this fall.

Larry

A thought about the pelleted chicken manure. My guess is that it comes from poultry farms as they are probably the only places producing enough to sell. Most poultry farms don't raise the chickens with organic feed. In fact they pump them full of hormones and drugs just like cows for beef production and these things don't get processed out of the chicken poop. My point is that if anyone using those pellets (or composted cow manure for that matter) in their gardens wants to grow organic they should check with the company as to the source of the manure.

Actually bea poultry farms don't use hormones to raise chickens. The FDA has restrictions against it. The "raised without added hormones" you see on some chicken packages is purely a marketing term since all chicken sold in the US would qualify. If you look at the packaging closely in the fine print it will say "Federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones."

You also wont be consuming antibiotics since there is a waiting time between when an animal stops treatment of antibiotics and when it can be killed for meat or have any of its products (milk or eggs) used. This allows the antibiotic to get worked out of the animal's system. The poop on the other hand doesn't have those regulations so chicken poop could contain an antibiotic residue. If a chicken is a sick it will still get antibiotics even in an USDA certified organic or "antibiotic free" farm. I've got a degree in animal science and misconceptions about how animals are raised is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

Thx for clearing it up. I must have read an old report.

However, If the feed fed to egg production or meat chickens is not organic, a residue of whatever was sprayed on the plants that go into that feed or the soil into which they grow remains in the feed and passed on to the chickens and their poop. And many of the ingredients in chicken feed (actually it's mostly corn) are not required to be organic nor are they as heavily regulated (as far as what pesticides can be used) as food for human consumption. In addition many products both for human consumption and for food animals are grown in countries where many of the chemicals banned in the USA are still used. Some of these trace elements remain in the soil for years. DDT is a case in point.

I'm not saying that it's not possible to find pelleted chicken manure that is free of toxins. But I think that a truly organic farmer/grower would want to know these facts. Check some of the facts here http://archive.law.fsu.edu/journals/landuse/Vol131/REYN.HTMl and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/

I guess it depends on how strictly organic one wants to be.