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 ...

The following is an excerpt from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green, 2010). In his humorous, anecdotal manifesto, Logsdon imparts how to transform farm, pet and ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — The company that pioneered brand-name chicken — Perdue Farms — is now trying to work similar magic with a less-appetizing end of the poultry industry: the mixture of woodchips and ...

Chicken manure is the best organic fertilizer for the production of Napier grass, results of a three-year study of the PCC at MMSU (Philippine Carabao Center at the Mariano Marcos State University) ...

Large egg farms in Bangladesh have a problem: they produce a lot of smelly manure. Farmers buy manure during a certain season; the rest of the year it piles up, and provokes complaints of odour and ...

Whether you are a Louisiana poultry farmer or just keep chickens in your back yard, there may soon be a solution to the vexing problem of disposing of chicken waste, thanks to a research project ...

We have recently learned students across our state are being taught a lesson in environmental education that is factually incorrect. We are concerned that students — and their parents — are being ...

Your editorial “The chicken waste conundrum” (Aug. 23) was right that the chicken processing industry needs to be properly regulated. In order to protect the livelihoods of Maryland farmers, we need ...