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chicken manure

non composted....in the water of a 20 gallon DWC tote....

yay or nay....would it burn the plants up with an over load like it would applied to soil?

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Not necessarily...I wasn't going to use it straight up as a soil fertilizer without composting it, but didn't know if it's still burn them if I made a tea out of it prior to composting.

My dad has laying hens, so Ive got access to it, just have to go over there and get it. Like I said, Ill probably just fertilize with another nute, and compost the chicken manure just to make for sure I don't burn them.
 
Poultry have very limited ability to digest the food they eat so the manure is very high in various nutrients, especially Urea (CO(NH[sub]2[/sub])[sub]2[/sub]) and K which can burn the plant and cause the local soil area to become acidic over the long run due to bacterial nitrification (NH[sub]3[/sub] -> NO[sub]3[/sub]). I would dilute it significantly with water and apply it as a broadcast rather than banding, that is if you do not want to compost it.
 
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