Chicken Muck...

[Selectamatic]

Hello,

I've been offered some chicken muck. It wont cost me much, and am keen to take it.

I will spread it on some stubble ground and plough it in.

Am I doing the right thing? Is there anything to worry about? Roughly, how much to the acre should I be spreading...?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Jerry]

New autumn muck spreading rules…..

 

[quattro]

Hello,

I've been offered some chicken muck. It wont cost me much, and am keen to take it.

I will spread it on some stubble ground and plough it in.

Am I doing the right thing? Is there anything to worry about? Roughly, how much to the acre should I be spreading...?

Thanks for your help.

Definitely good stuff
Layers muck 3-4 ton per acre
Don’t know about your timings

 

[Steevo]

Hello,

I've been offered some chicken muck. It wont cost me much, and am keen to take it.

I will spread it on some stubble ground and plough it in.

Am I doing the right thing? Is there anything to worry about? Roughly, how much to the acre should I be spreading...?

Thanks for your help.

Yes.

 

[robbie]

If it's free or cheap and its use doesn't interfer with NVZ or the new autumn spreading ban then crack on and get all you can.

Rate would be 5 to 7 ton ha.

 

[Al R]

Yes, 3-4t/acre if yearly or 10t/acre if one off every few years.
black grass can be a problem.

@henman will know more about nutrient values and application rates though

 

[robbie]

I assume you boys aren't in NVZs

 

[Werzle]

Yes, 3-4t/acre if yearly or 10t/acre if one off every few years.
black grass can be a problem.

@henman will know more about nutrient values and application rates though

10t/acre? !!!

 

[Chae1]

Botulism risk from dead chickens in muck?

Farmer lost quite a lot of cattle from it.

 

[Al R]

10t/acre? !!!

Straw based, well rotted

 

[Wooly]

I've been offered some chicken muck.

Is there anything to worry about?

Pissing off your neighbours with the smell !!

 

[Luke Cropwalker]

Sorry but the rate you would be able to spread at under the new EA rules makes autumn chicken muck on a crop without a requirement for N a non starter.

 

[neilo]

@Selectamatic is in Wales, and I think the new Autumn spreading rules only apply in England.
All of Wales is now in an NVZ (although being challenged by the NFU in court), but rules are being phased in.

Botulism is only a risk if spread on grassland, certainly not on arable land.

Crack on if it’s cheap enough, which it should be these days. £5/t or less locally now.

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

If it's free or cheap and its use doesn't interfer with NVZ or the new autumn spreading ban then crack on and get all you can.

Rate would be 5 to 7 ton ha.

Free ???
You seen the price of bagged fert this year

 

[CPF]

Little bit of information about chicken muck .I used to be in the chicken muck business. This is what I put together to give to all my Customers about nutrient values In the product. If I were you I would store it and put it on a growing crop in spring now with the new regulations coming in. I would not be ploughing it down it’s too far away from the root system you would not put fertiliser on and then plough it down .

 

[Wisconsonian]

Botulism is only a risk if spread on grassland, certainly not on arable land.

And then only a risk if the carcass gets into the silage, correct? or is there some risk from grazing also?

 

[Zebbedee]

Little bit of information about chicken muck .I used to be in the chicken muck business. This is what I put together to give to all my Customers about nutrient values In the product. If I were you I would store it and put it on a growing crop in spring now with the new regulations coming in. I would not be ploughing it down it’s too far away from the root system you would not put fertiliser on and then plough it down .

Fertiliser does not smell or leach nutrients into the air as much as chicken muck though hence its best to Plough

 

[Foxcover]

Put it on in spring 4t to the acre.
Spread pattern needs to be even if it’s potent muck otherwise you could end up with laid corn.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Try to avoid overlaps

this was probably urea, but same thing happens with substitutes

 

[Al R]

Try to avoid overlaps View attachment 986002
this was probably urea, but same thing happens with substitutes

They should have that on Origin fertiliser website for their promo’s