Dried Cow Manure (grass, tomatoes, weeds, how to)

[suzytx]

We'll soon be leasing adjacent land for cattle and will likely have a few dried 'patties' show up. Is there anything I could do with them - mulch, manure tea, etc.? All my research only shows up ideas for fresh manure.

[Rivertowntalk]

Maybe a cow-chip throwing contest?

[Sydney123]

We toss them in the compost pile with the chicken poop, leaves, grass, leftover food ( that the pigs won’t eat) and use it to fertilize the garden and greenhouse.

[webster]

Its all good. Mix it with soil, dig a shallow hole and put it in and cover it up. In short...just add water or let rain do it.

[FrozenI69]

Dried cow manure is used to keep pests away from your house & garden in India.

[Zoisite]

Originally Posted by suzytx

We'll soon be leasing adjacent land for cattle and will likely have a few dried 'patties' show up. Is there anything I could do with them - mulch, manure tea, etc.? All my research only shows up ideas for fresh manure.

Ideally it needs to be aerobically composted (rotted in a hot compost pile) and mixed together with other composted materials before you can use it. In the dried raw state you could pulverize or crumble it up and use it as it is, mixed in or sprinkled into your garden, but you would still be risking the ammonia and excess salts in it burning or killing some of your plants when the gardens get watered/rained on, plus there would be a higher risk of e-coli infection if used on edible crop plants. So it's really a lot safer and most practical to compost it first. Here are instructions for how to compost raw cow dung, whether it's been collected dried out or still moist.

https://homeguides.sfgate.com/compos...ung-43309.html

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[Threerun]

Used to throw them in a 5 gal bucket, filled with water and set in the sun. Used to have a the best tomatoes using that tea mix back in WV.

[fisheye]

My grandparents always like the cow manure better than horse manure because the horse manure would contain many seeds and weeds would grow. Of course, if you compost the horse manure eventually you can also use that. Most of the time they simply mixed it in the soil.

[oldgardener]

Add it to your garden soil.