Could it hurt them?

[ClareScifi]

I have some nice looking lettuce and chard growing in an area where horses were tied up from this past Easter until about 5 days after (April 13 or so). It had a lot of manure on it from these horses when I planted there in mid-April. So it's been about 3 months since the manure was fresh in that location.

Do you think it would be safe to feed the chickens the lettuce and chard growing in this area, or do you think it could give them E coli or some other bad malady?

 

[CMV]

They will love it and probably be just fine.

 

[ClareScifi]

This link suggests that 120 days is safe, but it hasn't been 120 days:

http://gardening.about.com/od/fertilizer/a/Is-Manure-Safe-To-Use-In-Your-Vegetable-Garden.htm

Don't know whether that applies to human consumption or animal consumption-- probably both?

 

[keesmom]

They will be fine. They will be happy too.