Pelleted Chicken Manure?

[Kirk]

Simply: How good is it?
Used it in the past, cannot recall it's effect. If any.

Have used bags of farmyard manure recent years but that seems of minimal benefit, and mainly the raised bed is as high as I want and sort of full of soil etc anyway - didn't want to add more to it.

So rather hoping it adds nutrient and does not add bulk.
However present luck being minimal, nothing really grew last year and presently sat here rigid having pulled a pair of back muscles, I sort of suspect I will get nowhere. Just may as well ask.

[greenishfing]

My sister swears by it. She grows mainly in pots and says she can definitely see a difference after using. I use cow and/or horse manure and get good crops so assume it is doing good and my heavy clay soil is much easier to work than it use to be.

[veggiechicken]

Not sure about the benefits but, when I'm planting onions, beans etc into holes I stick a couple of pellets in first (when I remember). Makes me feel like I'm trying!!
Hope your back feels better soon, Kirk.

[Snadger]

Horse or cow manure is more of a soil improver than a fertiliser. It improves the structure of the soil and adds some nutrients, but not as many nutrients as pelleted chicken manure. Pelleted chicken manure is a fertiliser which can promote all round health of plant.

Here is the analysis-

https://cropfertilityservices.com/an...hicken-manure/

[Mr Bones]

I rate chicken manure pellets and use them mainly as a top dressing by the handful, particularly where extra nitrogen is a benefit. Kirk if you used FYM last year and didn't see much difference maybe check your Ph. If the ground has become too acidic the nutrients will be locked and unavailable to plants. If that's the case a scattering of garden lime will sort it out.

[Thelma Sanders]

I tend to put a small handful into each planting hole, with a quick stir and some water to mix it in a bit, then put the transplants in. It seems to work well for most stuff.

[Small pumpkin]

It fantastic stuff. I use it in all my chilli pots. They do quite well

[chillithyme]

I like chicken pellets too, somebody gave me a tub to try and I have to say I was happy with the results I used a few sprinkles in planting holes as I went along

[ESBkevin]

Chicken pellet manure is quite potent, so don't lay it on thick. A scattering of pellets is all thats needed at planting time if the soil is in good heart.

[ameno]

It's the only fertilizer I use, and I use it on almost everything. Fork it into the veg plot in spring, in the raised bed, to revitalize old compost in pots. A top dressing of it for all my fruit bushes and trees, usually twice for rhubarb, as it's a hungry plant.
I can't easily get hold of horse or cow manure, and buying it from shops is expensive. I use old compost as a soil improver, and then poultry manure for fertilizer. A 7kg (£5) bucket lasts me about 18 months for my garden. I have been getting through it a bit quicker at my new allotment, as it's a bigger area. I reckon about one and a half buckets a year.
The tubs the come in make handy lidded buckets, too. Or you can drill holes in the bottom and use them as nice sized pots.

Just a couple things to note. One, if you use it as a top dressing then be sure to water it in if rain isn't due. The pellets swell up then disintegrate when wetted, but on the surface they'll just stay as dry pellets for some time without water.
And two, being an organic-based fertilizer, the nutrients are slower to release, as they need to be broken down by soil bacteria first. So don't expect to see immediate results, as it will take at least a couple weeks until nutrients become available to the plants.

[Greenleaves]

I use them quite freely, once this time a year which gets dug in and as a top dtessing for my brasiccas and onions.

[bramble]

Yes, I use it all the time.
Dont have access to manure so I find the chicken pellets really good.

[Kirk]

Will get a tub of the stuff, have used it in the past just no real recollection of the effectivness of it. Mainly I do not want to add more soil/manure to an already well topped up bed.

Also the manure added just seems a little ineffective. The bed is about 2x2 meters and I added 3 bags last year and same the year before. Results have not been exactly good.

So idea was pelleted chicken manure is less in volume and from replies sounds it should add nutrients and so cannot be worse. Soil is good just have all I want of it now.

Will add in 2 lots, one soon (after back recovers) and the other half in early spring.

Back movement is still either difficult and painful or impossible, should be out at the astronomy night. Blue Stragglers in Globular Clusters talk. Just getting out of chair is difficult/painful/slow and once in car that is worse then getting out of the chair. Have you realised the contortions you have to do to get out of a car seat?

Putting a sock on is an action to be feared at present.

[ESBkevin]

If regular manure seems ineffective it is possible the soil PH is not optimal (its just one of several things).
The advantage of composted manure is the slow and gentle release filtered through the soil food web. If the Ph value is unfavourable, many of those microbes, worms, and fungi will struggle to survive and be unable to convert the organic matter to thier poop to feed the plant roots.