Can manure for plants be made out of other animals besides the cows?
Question:Ex: like cats for example..
Just curious
Answers:
Manure can be made from the excrement of any animal, including humans. It can also come from non-animal sources, such as rotting plant materials. The question is, is it safe?
Any time you add an animal waste based manure to a garden, there is potential for risk. Animal waste contains a variety of bacteria, and also usually contains viruses. Added raw to a garden, those bacteria and viruses will sit in or on the soil. They can easily land on plant materials through direct contact, or getting bounced by rain drops. Thus, if you are going to eat from your garden, you definitely don't want to put raw animal waste on it.
Instead, the best way to utilize animal waste is to compost it. Through composting, beneficial bacteria digest the waste products. The heat from the digestion process is enough to kill many bacteria, and time alone will take care of (most of) the rest. Well-composted, even human waste can be a safe manure.
Still, with the new super-bugs that have been bred by agri-industry, I'm very leery of putting any animal waste in my vegetable garden, no matter how well composted. That spinach episode last fall came from improperly digested cow manure. Kids have died from cider made from apples that fell on cow manure fertilized orchards. (See the book Spoiled by Nicols Fox for many more examples.) Cats are known to carry some particularly dangerous pathogens, so I would keep cat waste out of my vegetable gardens and compost.
Yes, poo is poo. Best way to feed it to plants is to mix it in water using a milk jug.
Sure. Horse manure.
Yes.
You can use horse or chicken works well too.
CAT POOP, YUCK! Doesn't that carry a disease that is bad for pregnant women.
Most manures can be used...however bat manuer is the best, and most expensive, unless you have access like i do to it here in Central Texas, from the caves on the colorado river
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Cat and dog feces have been deemed diseased to use for gardens.
PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECT
Is there any human health danger to this practice?
Yes, both dog and cat manure may contain organisms that cause human health problems.
What is the hazard in dog manure?
The common large roundworm, called Toxocara canis can also infect humans.
How common is this worm in dogs?
It is estimated that 90% of young puppies are infected with ascarids or large roundworms.
How do humans become infected?
They get the infective eggs in their mouth. The eggs are transferred to mouth by the person's fingers, food, or other objects contaminated by dog feces.
What kind of symptoms would a person have who is infected by dog worms?
1) A condition called Visceral Larval Migrans. The ascarid eggs hatch in a person's small intestine. The little worms or larvae get into the blood stream and float to the liver. They migrate in the liver and get to the blood stream that goes to the lungs. Some may enter the general circulation and end up in different parts of the body. They have been found in the human heart, brain, spinal cord, skin, and other tissues. The symptoms would vary depending on where the larvae become attached.
2) Another condition is called Ocular Larval Migrans. The immature ascarid worms or larvae can affect the human eye. The larvae attack the retina and cause blindness. Many eyes of children have had to be removed which until recently was the only treatment for this problem.
How long can ascarid eggs live in the soil?
They can live for many months, or many years depending on soil conditions.
How common are these infections in humans?
Probably more common than the figures show. It's a difficult disease to specifically diagnose. Physicians are not required to report this disease so there are no accurate statistics. A test in 1978 used by the U.S. Public Health Service on 2,606 human samples showed 30% positive. In a pediatric hospital 37% of all the retinal diseases of children's eyes were positive for dog ascarid larvae. This is definitely a potential human health hazard.
What problem does cat feces pose as a human health problem?
The principal disease transmissible to humans is called Toxoplasmosis.
What is Toxoplasmosis?
This is an intestinal parasitic disease of cats and other animals. It affects the intestines and other tissues and the cysts are shed in the feces.
How does it affect humans?
It is associated with abortion and malformation of the unborn child in pregnant women. How common is this disease in Wisconsin cats? About 45% of the cats tested at the Central Animal Health Laboratory were positive.
How long do cats spread this organism?
They spread this organism for about 7-10 days after they become infected. They then become resistant, and fewer eggs are shed.
How is Toxoplasmosis spread to humans?
The eggs are usually placed in the mouth by fingers or objects contaminated with cat feces. Garden produce contaminated with cat feces containing infective eggs could be a human health hazard for pregnant women.
there is sheep manure horse manure chicken manure and there are also some with mixtures of the above in them It depends what plants you are using them on . be carefull with natives as some will burn them
I would never use cat or dog poop...there is cow ,horse goat and sheep plus chicken manure....the chicken manure is ery hot,,,,any manure shoul go through a heat cycle..like leave it in the weather through the winter months if you are gonna use it on your garden...
Listen to pcbeachrat, cat and dog poop can carry way too many harmful parasites and other organisms to be using it for fertilizer. Not to mention that poop from carnivores is about 10 times smellier than poop from animals that only eat plants.
Normally, dog or cat poo isn't recommended.
Of all, chicken has the highest content of nitrogen. Horse manure is good too.
yes
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