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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1833571" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>I know what you are saying [USER=39122]@Little Joe[/USER], but a word of caution. You don't want to make the litter too much of a good thing. Think about this. That grass that looked wonderful from getting an excessive amount of litter........It was probably deficient in magnesium in the spring, possibly at least. (Grass tetany issue? but supplement with high mag trace mineral). The phosphorous level in the soil as a result.......probably out of this world, as in stratosphere numbers. That isn't good for surface waters when (and you will have) runoff/leaching. </p><p></p><p>Commercial fertilizer has it's place to work in conjunction with or as a supplement with poultry litter. You can balance the nutrient level in the poultry litter with supplemental commercial fertilizer as you can formulate an exact mix to apply based on soil tests. Formulating a 'mix' that gets the needed amounts of all nutrients with litter alone, in the right balance, can't be done.</p><p></p><p>You do get more bang for your buck with litter, but it's not a stand alone solution and don't let it become too much of a good thing. </p><p></p><p>Use the litter, it's great shyt! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤠" title="Cowboy hat face :cowboy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f920.png" data-shortname=":cowboy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1833571, member: 43196"] I know what you are saying [USER=39122]@Little Joe[/USER], but a word of caution. You don't want to make the litter too much of a good thing. Think about this. That grass that looked wonderful from getting an excessive amount of litter........It was probably deficient in magnesium in the spring, possibly at least. (Grass tetany issue? but supplement with high mag trace mineral). The phosphorous level in the soil as a result.......probably out of this world, as in stratosphere numbers. That isn't good for surface waters when (and you will have) runoff/leaching. Commercial fertilizer has it's place to work in conjunction with or as a supplement with poultry litter. You can balance the nutrient level in the poultry litter with supplemental commercial fertilizer as you can formulate an exact mix to apply based on soil tests. Formulating a 'mix' that gets the needed amounts of all nutrients with litter alone, in the right balance, can't be done. You do get more bang for your buck with litter, but it's not a stand alone solution and don't let it become too much of a good thing. Use the litter, it's great shyt! 🤠 [/QUOTE]
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