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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] RE: Asparagus and Weeds/ and GUINEAS
  • Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 18:03:36 -0400

On Fri, 27 May 2005 17:45:39 -0400, you wrote:

>On Fri, 27 May 2005 16:04:41 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Animals walking and pooping amoung fresh vegetables is a no no.. One
>>chicken will spread more than 10 pounds of poop around your garden vegies
>>every month.
>
>One chicken - 10 lbs a month? Gee, that seems like an awful
>lot to me.

See my prior post. It has mathematical error, sorry.

I wrote: "If the chickens made 10 lbs of manure per month
per chicken, that would have been 144 lbs of manure per
month in the coop/run throughout the winter." This is an
error, of course, It should have been 120 lbs per month or
1,440 lbs per year for a dozen chickens - a bit lower but
still wildly unrealistic (judging from my experience).

After I wrote it, I decided to Google to find out just how
much manure a chicken does produce - here are the figures I
found. These are *annual* figures:

* Pounds of manure per layer - 30

* Pounds of manure per breeder - 44

From:
http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/B1245.htm#Estimating

I don't think many people allow more than a couple of
chickens to go broody and raise chicks each year, so
presumably the figure per layer is more representative.

30 lbs per year would equal 2.5 lbs per month per chicken.

For the 12 chickens I had, it would also equal 360 lbs per
year in total - that seems much more in line with my
experience of cleaning the coop and run than 1,440 lbs/year.

Pat
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