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2. Chicken manure - Wikipedia

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   Chicken manure is the feces of chickens used as an organic fertilizer, especially for soil low in nitrogen. [ 1] Of all animal manures, it has the highest amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. [ 2] Chicken manure is sometimes pelletized for use as a fertilizer, and this product may have additional phosphorus, potassium or nitrogen ...

3. Poultry litter - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. In agriculture, poultry litter or broiler litter is a mixture of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and material used as bedding in poultry operations. This term is also used to refer to unused bedding materials. Poultry litter is used in confinement buildings used for raising broilers, turkeys and other birds.

4. Manure - Wikipedia

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   Manure. Animal manure is often a mixture of animal feces and bedding straw, as in this example from a stable. Manure is organic matter that is used as organic fertilizer in agriculture. Most manure consists of animal feces; other sources include compost and green manure. Manures contribute to the fertility of soil by adding organic matter and ...

5. Organic fertilizer - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, manure is required to be composted which will ideally kill any seeds or pathogens and reduce the ammonia content. [9] A large commercial compost operation. Chicken litter, which consists of chicken manure and bedding, is an organic fertilizer that has been proposed to be superior for conditioning soil for harvest to synthetic ...

6. Poultry farming in the United States - Wikipedia

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   This had the undesirable side effect of turning the chicken manure from a valuable fertilizer that could be used profitably on local farms to an unwanted byproduct. This trend may be reversing itself due to higher disposal costs on the one hand and higher fertilizer prices on the other, making farm regions attractive once more. [22]

7. Waialua egg farm's pile of chicken manure prompts complaint - AOL

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   Jul. 14—An organization that has fought against concentrated livestock operations is alleging that a big, relatively new and growing egg farm on Oahu is a stream and ocean pollution threat. An ...