Africa: You Can Do So Much With Chicken Manure

Africa: You Can Do So Much With Chicken Manure

Africa: You Can Do So Much With Chicken Manure

At present, chicken farmers in Africa are not satisfied with the comprehensive utilization of chicken manure: some farmers drop chicken manure to the side of road or pit, resulting in waste and pollution; some farmers are using untreated chicken manure as fertilizer for fields or ponds. Untreated Chicken manure will do harm to agricultrual production.

Chicken Manure seems to be waste or trash, but it is a valuable source if you treat it well.

In China, a chicken farm with 30,000 chicken can sell Poultry litter at the total amout of 100,000RMB, that is USD15,500.00, and now farmers are seeking more advance method to process poultry litter to get more profit from the market.

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Here are some technical approach we are using to help you turn your chicken manure into valuable treasure,

1, compost fermentation method

Chicken manure, fermented by compost, is a good fertilizer for grapes, watermelons, and fruit trees as well as organic vegetables. Choosing well ventilated, high-lying areas, preferably 500m far away from the residential area and chicken coop, chicken manure can be piled up, and sealed with mud outside. Generally, fermentation period will take 10 days in summer, about 2 months in Winter. This process does not completely deodorize.

2, multi-bacteria fermentation

After two-step fermentation with different bacteria (First, Pre-aerobic fermentation; Second composting), chicken manure was used to produce bio-organic fertilizer products, widely used in various crops, it is a product of pollution-free, environment-friendly and organic fertilizer, high-quality fertilizer. Through lots of experiments, the final product turns out to be of significant results.

3, thermal spray feed method

Fresh pure chicken manure is processed by thermal spray equipment, and it can greatly provide nutritional value of feed, equivalent to cotton cake, vegetable cake and sesame cake. After treatment, the final product can be used to replace some protein feed, like soybean meal. This process can aslo thoroughly deodorize.

4, fermented feed method

Fresh pure chicken manure fermented by bacteria together with a small amount of wheat bran, meal cake, and other additives. Chicken Manure can completely change the nutritional value by the fermentation process, and final product become an excellent source of protein, the equivalent of cotton seeds meal detoxification or vetetable cake detoxification. It can be used to replace part of soybean meal, with significant economic benefits. This method not only deodorizes completely, but animal palatability is also good.

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5, silage ammoniation method

Fresh pure chicken manure, after treatment, can be used as feed for cattle, sheep, and sometimes for pigs.

Fresh pure chicken manure is processed with shredded forage, fruit and vegetable waste, or potato, sweet potato seedlings, cereals and other mixed silage, including non-legume forage silage best. Silage, 40% -70%water, together with corn and other grains, was processed with the right amount of ammonia to improve the digestibility and palatability of forage and chicken manure. After fresh chicken dung air-dried, it is silaged in blue corn at a ratio of 30%, and it can be fed to beef cattle. This method does not completely deodorize.

6, dried (or air-dried) and crushed for feed

The fresh chicken manure can be spread out in plastic shed for drying, and can be blown with a high-speed blower. After drying, Chicken manure was crushed into pellets feed for cattle, sheep,or Poultry.  The method can not deodorize, animal palatability is poor.

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7, dried (or air-dried) and crushed for fertilizer

The fresh chicken manure was dried by drying equipment. After treatment, Chicken manure can also be processed into granular fertilizer. The deodorant effect of the method is not ideal.

8, direct feeding method

Fresh pure chicken manure can be used to feed pigs and fish in a small amount. According to different cage, chicken manure contains different active ingredients, such as young chicken manure, containing with high crude protein, can be used as fine feed. Direct feed should be very careful with quantity and pollution. This method can not be deodorant with a poor animal palatability.

9, biogas fermentation method

Chicken manure is one of the raw materials for biogas fermentation, especially the heavy waterlogged chicken manure can be used to produce biogas. The chicken farmers can build fermentation tank of small and medium-sized, and biogas will be produced after 20 days. Biogas can be used for domestic heating, and biogas residue can be used for fish or fertilizer.

Once chickens farm is built, the process and utilization of chicken manure is very important. 

Chicken manure is not only good fertilizer, but also contains high nutritional value, and can be used as feed. The comprehensive utilization of chicken manure can greatly improve the sanitary environment of chicken farms, eliminate mosquitoes, flies and odors, reduce the spread of diseases and make full use of this resource as feedstuff, fertilizer, turning chicken manure into valuable resource to get beter social benefits, ecological benefits and economic benefits.