What's up guys? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. My name is Kevin. Thank you so much for tuning in. Today's question comes from Phil Koster, a classic epic gardening listener. Hey Phil, how you doing? So he says can you please talk use of

animal manure for fertilizers? I've heard chicken manure is too nitrogen

rich and needs to be diluted or it will burn your plants. But what about manure

from rabbits, goats, cows, horses and other common animals we might come across?

Is manure only good for nitrogen, or are there other nutrients in notable quantities?

Do those nutrients balances differ by animal, or feed, or or both or neither? Pretty complex

question. Again what I like to do with these is to talk about something a bit

more broadly so you know I'm far from an expert in animal fertilizer but from what I do know I'm far from an expert in animal fertilizer, but from what I do know I'm going to share and I've done a bit of research as well.

So, first of all, here's an interesting fact.

A 1000 pound cow will produce 15 tons of manure per year.

So 30,000 pounds.

So 1,000 pound cow, 30,000 pounds of manure.

Pretty intense.

And that is why a lot of people say that cows are killing the earth because

there's so much manure.

Well is that true?

Yes and no.

It depends on what you do with that manure.

Those 15 tons contain an equivalent of 213 pounds of nitrogen,

192 pounds of phosphate, 267 pounds of potassium.

So about, let's say 750 pounds of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. But in addition to those

three major NPK nutrients, you also have essential micronutrients.

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