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 ...

Discover how chicken manure can transform your garden with Mark's experience using it as a nutrient-rich, natural fertilizer.

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 ...

What are the benefits of raising chickens? In a word, poop! Learn how to put chicken manure as fertilizer to use in your garden. Fresh, nutritious eggs and homegrown roast chicken dinners are reason ...

In a dimly lit chicken house, John Logan stands surrounded by thousands of fluffy, yellow, week-old chicks. They're among 275,000 chickens he raises on his farm in Prentiss, Miss. Every 38 days, he ...

Not all types of renewable energy are created equal, some environmental advocates say. In Maryland, they're figuratively turning up the heat on chicken manure, hoping that others literally won't. The ...

Like cooking an egg, timing is everything with poultry manure, a Vermont master gardener warns this week. First-timers in the world of small-scale poultry might be tempted to shovel a week's worth of ...