chicken manure compost tea

[jc mac]

I have a 30 gallon barrel with a spigot which I would use to make a maure tea, does anyone know what the ratio would be, of course I would put the manure/compost in a cloth.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

No clue what the ratio would be, but I keep a kiddie pool for my ducks in the summer, they poop in there, I use this water on my plants and they grow like crazy without any sign of burning, so in my thirty gallons there's about two days worth of eight ducks poop.

 

[User395221]

You can use as much poo as you like - you can dilute the "tea" as much as you want to.

 

[Chris09]

There's no set ratio that I'm aware of.

Most people I know go by eye and estimate the amount.
Here is one of the "recipes" at I use.
In a black 55 gallon drum I suspend about 5 pounds manure in a mesh sack or two (the 5 gallon paint straining sacks work great for this),
I then start filling the drum up with water, once the drum is about a 1/4 of the way full I add 12 ounces each of molasses, liquid kelp, and fish emulsion.
I then fill the drum up until the water is about 6 inches from the rim, add a aerator (like ones used in a aquarium), plug the aerator in, cover the drum with a lid and let work for about two days...