Chicken hydroponics

[Magnumchicken]

Has anyone had experiences with hydroponics using chicken waste as fertilizer? Hot fresh chicken poop has almost perfect NPK balance, and good micros as well.

I would worry about pH the most.

I have been doing hydroponics for years with great results.

In Thailand, they have chickens over aquaponics ponds with fish in them. Chickens poop on the fish, and it all gets cycled into the system raw.

Any experiences?

 

[Sally PB]

No, but I'm going to be watching this to see what people have to say.

 

[PrettyBeaks]

Has anyone had experiences with hydroponics using chicken waste as fertilizer? Hot fresh chicken poop has almost perfect NPK balance, and good micros as well.

I would worry about pH the most.

I have been doing hydroponics for years with great results.

In Thailand, they have chickens over aquaponics ponds with fish in them. Chickens poop on the fish, and it all gets cycled into the system raw.

Any experiences?

Magnumchicken: We've been working with that exact experiment for two years. Here's a link posted on another board on BYC.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-manure-in-hydroponics.1399221/#post-23003367

PB

 

[BarneyNCyndi]

This seems to be a little ventured endeavor. From what I've discovered, composting chicken manure in a liquid state to be used as liquid fertilizer in hydroponics is a tough project. The main problem being that, to compost the chicken manure into nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium while also killing any pathogens requires air and heat. Both hard to obtain in a liquid or slurry. The above apparatus uses a bubbler to get the air, but I am contemplating a system that doesn't require any external energy.
I could use gravel (very heavy) clay pepples (expensive) or even straw (inexpensive and biodegradable) to hold a film of the manure while also allowing air circulation in an enclosed but ventilated tube or drum. I just don't want to have to always be turning or shaking it all the time to maintain the film on the media and get the air pockets needed for the right bacteria to do its work.