fresh chicken manure is not usable for fertilizer...Its full of ammonia. If you ever have cleaned out a coop, the ammonia will have tears falling down your cheeks within 5 minutes....might be ok if left to dryout for a year. chickens manure if full of urine, they don’t have the ability to pee due to their having no urinary track equipment...Its pee and poo at the same time...
That is true. But I guess most “fresh” fertlizer has to be cured for a year or so before becoming useful. It’s too hot and burns up the vegetation.
Stupid side story...I bought some chicken manure at the nursery several years ago. It was in a plastic bag. The stupid part of the story is that I failed to get it out of the trunk of the car for 24 hours...during the summer. I really thought I was going to have to sell the car. The stench was horrible...and the plastic bad deteriorated!
Absolutely, you need to let it dry out before making the chicken tea. I should have mentioned that. I don’t wait a year though. And you’re right about chickens, the pee and poo. They only have one opening, a cloaca.
I keep twenty hens in a coop and use the deep layering method. I also use cat litter under their roosting position. No ammonia, no smell and no flies. Just plenty of fresh eggs that feed a lot of hungry people.