Using duck poop in garden beds

[Texag87]

Before planting the garden this weekend , I turned over my compost of hay, straw, and duck poop. It looks like another six months before it will be decomposed enough to use. I plan on rinsing out the bottom of the pools into a five gallon bucket and pouring the dirt/water/duck poop into the garden.

 

[Pollo Blanco]

Personally I've decided not to care and I sit among the duck poop eating unwashed tomatoes with my filthy hands. This is not the safest practice and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Same here, plus I kiss my dogs on the nose.

I don't see it as a problem, I see it as something natural.

I see far greater problems with the bleach and chemical crowd along with all of those perfumed products and fragrances that just don't seem to go away.

I don't think masking a rotten garbage pail with perfume is fixing a problem, it's masking a problem.

But, I will be mixing a bunch of soiled chips in with the soil for a fruit tree transplant today.

Some of the chips go on the base of the mature fruit trees and some go into the red worm bin. Worm composting means never having to turn another pile, and it's also much faster turnaround.

 

[KaleIAm]

Same here, plus I kiss my dogs on the nose.

I don't see it as a problem, I see it as something natural.

I see far greater problems with the bleach and chemical crowd along with all of those perfumed products and fragrances that just don't seem to go away.

I don't think masking a rotten garbage pail with perfume is fixing a problem, it's masking a problem.

But, I will be mixing a bunch of soiled chips in with the soil for a fruit tree transplant today.

Some of the chips go on the base of the mature fruit trees and some go into the red worm bin. Worm composting means never having to turn another pile, and it's also much faster turnaround.

Oh yes, many furry and feathered kisses! Lol.

And my personal opinion is right with yours regarding bleached sterile environments being more of problem than playing in dirt. I've also been known to *gasp* use a composting toilet myself. Yes, yes, I'm a dirty hippie.

And perfume? Ugh. Blech. Gross.

 

[Trisseh]

I deep clean my duck coop and run in the fall after the frost kills everything, and spread it over the beds. It helps with soil erosion when everything is soaked in the spring, and gives me a jump start on decomposition while it sits before everything freezes. I can’t keep a compost pile hot here through winter. Maybe I’m just not doing it right. But this works well for me, I have next to no weeds coming up early on, and my plants do seem to appreciate it, especially the corn.
The chicken coop and run, I don’t know if I’ll be able to do the same or not, so that’ll probably go in the ongoing compost pile to be on the safe side.
My cows did some tilling and fertilizing for me this past fall as well, haha, so there’s definitely a good mix in there. xD

 

[reedread]

Does anyone know how to plant and raise garden beds? Thanks for any advice!

 

[telandra2]

You don't need to compost duck, it won't burn. My poop shavings go directly to the garden as mulch. The perennial garden soil is now black and full of tasty worms. I had poop shavings no dig veggie garden on top of the grass-and-invasive-reeds meadow last year that did great (once the wacky weather allowed.) Planted the seeds and plugs directly in the shavings. Now I've moved on to using them to recover a compacted former gravel drive.

Don't forget huekeler (however you spell it.) Raised berms made of branches with soil on top. Iirc It's of german origin. That is another plan for my graveled area.

 

[Stoney Meadow Maple]

I buy a dump truck load of cow barn scrapings every year, mixed with the hay/poop nest they have from the winter and the shavings from their duck house i let it rot for a year, stir it periodically with the tractor. The shavings keep it on the light side, I have never grown such big potatoes as I have since i got ducks. The hay and shavings require a lot of nitrogen added.