How to handle pigeon manure correctly? Here are a few practical methods
In the process of raising pigeons, many people find themselves unsure how to handle pigeon manure, and sometimes they can only pile it up casually or spread it in the fields to use as farmyard manure. In fact, pigeon manure contains a certain amount of protein, amino acids, vitamins and trace elements, and besides being used as fertilizer it can also be used as feed. So how should pigeon manure be handled? Let's learn a few of the simplest ways to handle pigeon manure below.
1. Drying treatment
The drying treatment method includes two aspects. The first is the ground drying method. When handling pigeon manure, first add an appropriate amount of wheat bran to the pigeon manure; the wheat bran content must not exceed 20 percent. Then spread out the mixed pigeon manure and lay it on the ground, letting it dry naturally with the help of the sun and wind and other external forces. The second is greenhouse drying. The method is actually very simple: spread the pigeon manure on the greenhouse floor at a thickness of about 2 cm and let it dry naturally.
2. Silage fermentation treatment
The second handling method is treatment using the principle of fermentation. The fermentation method we generally use is silage fermentation. The fermentation method is very simple: thoroughly mix pigeon manure, cornmeal, rice bran, wheat bran, plus fermented feed and a fermentation agent, or thoroughly mix pigeon manure, grass meal, bran, and EM bacteria. Then add an appropriate amount of water to moisten it, squeeze it tightly into a ball with your hand, and finally put it into a plastic bag or a sealable container for sealed fermentation. Generally about three days is roughly enough, though it may also take about a week, and in winter the fermentation time will be longer.
3. Chemical treatment
The chemical treatment method for pigeon manure is actually not very common at present. If we use chemical treatment for pigeon manure, we need to collect the pigeon manure as early as possible, then mix it with formaldehyde or formalin, with the content not exceeding 7 per thousand of the total amount. Moreover, the chemical treatment method takes very little time; generally three hours after mixing is enough. The most important thing is that it can improve the quality of the feed, increase the utilization rate of protein, and reduce the loss of nutrients.
4. The role of pigeon manure
Pigeon manure has two main uses, namely as feed and as fertilizer. Fresh pigeon manure can be used directly to feed pigs, which can reduce environmental pollution. Next is fermented pigeon manure, which can be used to feed fish, feed shrimp, and raise yellow mealworms, fly maggots, earthworms, chickens, ducks, etc., and can reduce the harm of disease. Fermented pigeon manure can also be used as a water-fertilizing product, a biological organic fertilizer for planting, and so on.
In fact, many things we usually think have no value can still be highly useful if utilized later on. Before this, pigeon manure was basically worthless, and it also caused the problem of environmental pollution, but if handled this way, it both protects the environment and improves the rate of secondary utilization.