Evaluation of Chicken Manure during the Composting Period

FULYA TORUK and POYRAZ ÜLGER
Trakya University, Tekirdag Agricultural Faculty, Farm Machinery Department, 59030 Tekirdag, Turkey

Abstract

TORUK, FULYA and POYRAZ ÜLGER, 2004. Evaluation of chicken manure during the composting period. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 10: 473-478

Chicken manure is used in different fields because of its high nutriment elements capasity. Compost manure is thought as a different solution in this point. In this research, in the steps of getting chicken manure as compost, the changes seen in manure and relationnships between them are offered.

Key words: chicken manure, centrifugal separator, compost, nutriment elements, odor intense
Abbreviations: CP - Crude protein, DM - Dry matter, CA - Crude ash, Ca - Calcium, P - Phosphorus, N - Nitrogen, K - Potassium, Na - Sodium, TSE - National standard