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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 added. [3]

3. Animal-free agriculture - Wikipedia

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   Animal-free farming may use organic or non-organic farming methods. However, most detailed discussions of animal-free agriculture currently focus on animal-free organic variants. [ 4 ] In the European Union, farmers have a financial incentive to use manure instead of animal-free fertilisers, since manure is subsidised.

4. 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 ...

5. Manure - Wikipedia

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   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 nutrients , such as nitrogen , that are utilised by bacteria , fungi , and other organisms in the soil .

6. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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   A dual-purpose chicken is a type of chicken that may be used in the production of both eggs and meat. [42] In the past, many chicken breeds were selected for both functions. However, since the advent of laying and meat hybrids, industrial chicken breeding has made a sharp distinction between chickens with either function, [ 43 ] so that certain ...

7. Land lab - Wikipedia

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   Free range chickens are an important part of the ecosystem for a local land lab. The chickens eat insects, greens, and grain. They produce eggs and manure. Their manure is used as a garden fertilizer. Restoring old agricultural land back to original landscapes such as: wetlands, prairie, or forest; Composting biomass to rebuild healthy soil

8. Talk:Chicken manure - Wikipedia

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   In the scientific literature poultry litter is usually used because chicken manure is a vague term. It could be argued chicken manure is any typical agricultural waste containing chicken excreta which is suitable for land application. Chicken manure is rarely plain feces as feces in avian species are typically combined with urine as excreta.

9. Anaerobic lagoon - Wikipedia

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   An anaerobic lagoon or manure lagoon is a man-made outdoor earthen basin filled with animal waste that undergoes anaerobic respiration as part of a system designed to manage and treat refuse created by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Anaerobic lagoons are created from a manure slurry, which is washed out from underneath the ...