[lacewing]

My husband came home with a huge bag of chicken pellets that someone offered him at work, quite cheap, I am wondering if the pellets can be used on all crops, or only on certain crops  that benifit from high nitrogen

[whippersnapper]

I use as a general fertilzer, putting a top dressing on the soil about now - so a few weeks before planting.

[JayG]

Pelleted chicken manure has an average analysis of 4-2.5-2.5 (NPK). Growmore, by comparison is 7-7-7, so clearly PCM is higher in nitrogen than a truly "balanced" fertiliser.

That's pretty good for most vegetables even though some might argue the nitrogen is a bit high for some root crops, but it's a widely used (and sustainable) general fertiliser and I wouldn't get hung-up too much about the chemistry. It's good stuff! 

[paintedlady]

... if you have foxes in the area, they have a habit of investigating & digging the bed where you put the manure - probably looking for the buried chickens    Other than that, I found chicken manure to be a very good source of nitrogen for plants 

[Pompey Spud]

As it's slow releasing..it's great for pots and squashes to get them going and fuel the early leaf growth.

[lacewing]

Thanks folks, I did wonder if I should use it on potatoes!

[Flowerpower136]

Have got my own chickens now, so no shortage of fertilizer.   But used to use chicken pellets all over the garden, just as a general feed.  Only problem I had was that the dogs were very partial to it . . . as they are to most poo!