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Using goat manure in garden

 
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Does anyone have experience with using goat manure in your garden? I am looking for any advice that you care to share.
 
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Hey Ron!
I do not have personal experience amending soil with goat manure but it is a ruminate with lots of carbon in its stool.
If you are worried about pathogens then composting woukd be advised rather than fresh and if the manure was collected from a stall kept animal it may be soaked with nitrogen rich urine so it might burn roots applied fresh.

I would make a compost pile with some and a tea out of a small portion. Basically soak it in water for a couple weeks strain it and dilute with water to make a nutrient rich feed that isn't likely to burn the plants.

I hope that helps and I hope even more some that a few people with hands on experience with goat manure will chime in!

Good luck
 
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I have been using it for years.  I let it compost like any other manure, horse, cow , chicken, and then put  it on my garden.  Works fine.  I sometimes also put it on the garden in a thick mat of six inches or more in the fall and let it sit on my raised beds over the winter.   My garden is all raised beds.   The only manure i use fresh is rabbit.  

 
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Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
 
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