Another Poo topic

OK, I got the hogs up and running, currently 17 head with plans to add 10 or so head each month. I was thinking of using the manure to fertilize the garden and corn field. Just wondering do I need to compost it or let it set or just put it on as it becomes available?

The old hog pens we used in the 80s took quite a long time to recover. Dad just penned off an area of hardwood forest and turned the hogs in. First, all the underbrush died, then the trees. After he got out of the hog business, it took a few years to even have blackberry briers grow in there. But I'm not sure how much of that was due to the manure being too hot and how much was due to all the rooting.
 
Food safety calls for it to be composted before applying it to your food crop or on cover crops six months before growing food crop.
 
Poo bear, Winnie the Poo bear.

Does a bear SH!T in the woods? Not unless he has Charmin ultrasoft T.P. !
 
Corn field, put it on, work the ground, and plant. Saves some N to work it in.

Garden, with all the root crops and leaf crops right down to the ground, composted or applied 6 months before you harvest sure would be wise.

Paul
 
They killed the trees from rubbing the bark off not the manure that why you spray for lice and mange because they didnt get good bedding so sleep in. Hogs need clean sleeping areas if you want to keep them healthy.
 

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