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thendrix 
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 9:12am |
[IMG]  [/IMG] That's what 72,000 chickens crap out in 6 weeks. Pretty surprising when you stand back and look. That pile is 40 ft wide, 35 ft deep, and approximately 6 ft high. Best guess is there's around 70 tons of poop there.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 9:24am |
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That's a lot of crap
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desertjoe
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 9:27am |
Hey Tyler,,,,that IS a lot of chickie poop,,,I;m guessin there is a market for it as ,,,,fertilizer,,?? 
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 9:38am |
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Ok it’s killing me to ask this but here goes, do you ever sell that to use as minerals for cattle? I see it here on occasion where I hunt. This is just for pasture cows not feeders that we eat.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 9:51am |
least you gat a roof overhead...been a MONTH and a day and the garage roof ain't finished.... BTW are the side walls on an angle or is it an optical delusion ? ALSO .. you ARE selling that fertilzer/ garden amendment ??
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 11:11am |
 desertjoe wrote:
Hey Tyler,,,,that IS a lot of chickie poop,,,I;m guessin there is a market for it as ,,,,fertilizer,,?? |
Just think how good the Goatheads would grow with that. 
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 11:36am |
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kinda looks like Congress is in session!
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 11:44am |
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Joe, yes we sell it for fertilizer. $60 per load on a spreader truck. A load is around 6 tons.
Thad, I have heard of that. Pawpaw said they used to put down hay or straw then dry litter then more hay or straw. He called it a chicken sh!t sandwich. They will gain weight this way. The reason why is chickens only digest about 30% if what they eat so 70% of this litter is a high protein feed. The problem with this is the nitrogen. If they're fed litter to often the nitrogen will eat up their stomach lining. It doesn't really hurt the cow but makes them poop like they have scours. They don't lose weight or look sick but they don't sell very well.
Jay, the walls are straight it's just an optical illusion. That's what we refer to as a stack house. The environmental people would shut the farm down if litter was stored outside like it used to be so to discourage this they pay for about 80% of the cost to build a stack house.
Ray, you fellas send those goatheads to Blair and I'll send some "miracle grow"
Edited by thendrix - 15 Sep 2018 at 11:46am
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 12:13pm |
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That stuff makes some great fertilizer. I could use one truck load on my front yard but the neighbors might not like it. After being composted in a stack house it doesn't smell as bad as coming fresh out of the growing house. Bet it smells like money to you anyway. Got a small hay field right next to the house at the farm, told my buddy to feel free to make a pass through the yard while he is spreading on the field, makes the grass nice and green.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 2:26pm |
OK, now that we have seen a picture of poo in the pole barn, can we see a few pictures of the chickens?
Congress, LOL
Edited by Unit3 - 15 Sep 2018 at 2:27pm
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 2:56pm |
I deal with that crap everyday as well! Got 10 hens, so a bit smaller pile made! lol We put ours in a plastic drum, with the veggie cuttings, roll it around and make the best stuff for the flower bed. Let it cool down a bit, put in the bed, and the flowers go wild.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 4:35pm |
Unit3 wrote:
OK, now that we have seen a picture of poo in the pole barn, can we see a few pictures of the chickens?
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I'll have to see what I can do. I had a thread full of pictures a year or so ago but I can't find it now
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 7:33pm |
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I used to get that from Rose Acres, just down the road from me. I spread it over alfalfa in Feb when it is dorment. Darn alfalfa will be as high as a 16.9X28 tire on the D17. It will really take a mediocre stand of hay into a great stand. Do not put it on hay when it is growing.
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Posted: 16 Sep 2018 at 7:21pm |
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So Tyler, if you somehow got into the middle of that pile, you'd be up to your neck in chicken chit?
Too bad you can't spread it on weeds during their growing cycle and kill em off!!
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Posted: 16 Sep 2018 at 10:14pm |
Ted J wrote:
So Tyler, if you somehow got into the middle of that pile, you'd be up to your neck in chicken chit?
Too bad you can't spread it on weeds during their growing cycle and kill em off!!
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That's true. If I was in the middle of that pile I'd be slow cooking myself. After a week or two I'll start monitoring the inside temp with an 18 inch "meat thermometer". In a week or so it'll be 160 or higher. If we leave it to long it can catch fire. We've had it happen once. Burned a few boards on the side of the stack house before we got it put out
Edited by thendrix - 16 Sep 2018 at 10:15pm
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Posted: 16 Sep 2018 at 11:29pm |
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gee….thanks a lot Tyler B-U-D-D-Y! PffffT!
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Posted: 17 Sep 2018 at 7:25am |
Anything for ole shame shame 
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Posted: 17 Sep 2018 at 8:49am |
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Sure wish you were closer would like some for my garden
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Posted: 19 Sep 2018 at 5:17pm |
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Think what the chicken and hog farmers are dealing in eastern N C .Hard for farmers to make the news.
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Posted: 19 Sep 2018 at 7:22pm |
Wife and I were talking that there must be a lot of crops and animals either damaged or lost due to Florence. Finally saw on news this afternoon some numbers for chickens , turkeys, was in the millions and hogs was 5500 best I remember.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 8:41am |
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I seen a picture on the news that showed 3 big buildings that were either hog of chicken but the news people didn't even talk about them, don't think they even knew what they was,I can't imagine what they are going to be like to clean out after the water goes down because nothing was probably taken out of them before the flood
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