Chicken manure, often called "black gold," provides one of the most nutrient-rich boosts for your soil. Different types of chicken manure exist, with variations in quality and composition. You can ...

What are the benefits of raising chickens? In a word, poop! Learn how to put chicken manure as fertilizer to use in your garden. Fresh, nutritious eggs and homegrown roast chicken dinners are reason ...

The author’s hens stay on pasture during warmer months and then overwinter inside a greenhouse. Use chicken manure in garden to boost crops’ productivity, while also utilizing a greenhouse chicken ...

An international collaboration between researchers from Brazil and the United States has identified a process for turning poultry waste into a soil additive for agriculture. "Several countries have ...

Questions are answered by experts at the Oregon Health Authority, other state agencies or community partners. Questions and answers are republished by permission. Q: Regarding H5N1 (aka Highly ...

Gary writes: My neighbor raises chickens, and she has an abundance of chicken manure that she is willing to share with me for my garden. I recall that some time ago you wrote about manure tea and its ...

Like cooking an egg, timing is everything with poultry manure, a Vermont master gardener warns this week. First-timers in the world of small-scale poultry might be tempted to shovel a week's worth of ...

Lee Blaney tells people he has the best-smelling lab on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He’s joking. The environmental engineer and his team operate reactors ...

Dan Rodricks’ recent column urged the new governor to get a large-scale poultry waste incinerator built on the Eastern Shore (“Larry Hogan has a chance to be a green governor,” Dec. 13). This awful ...