[Plottered]

My brother in law has moved to North Wales and at the bottom of the lane is a sheep farm and thousands of sheep all around him in the fields. He has got to know the farmer quite well and got onto the subject of sheep muck and apparently the farmer has piles and piles of the stuff from inside the barns when the sheep were inside lambing. Ive been told i can have as much as i like but i wonder if its any good? is it as good as horse muck and can it be used in the same way if its well rotted?

thanks.

[mumofstig]

You can make manure tea with it...that much I know

The OBs used it on the allotments where I grew years ago, cos that was sheep country too I remember it being very dry, not wet like horse manure.

[mobilekat]

My grandad used to recon sheep poo tea was good for pumpkins etc- smelt like it would do something, and the local old guys around here use a tea made from the dirty wool trimmed from around their bottoms (stinks a treat!)

[sonnycbr]

I put an onion net full of sheep poo in my comfrey/nettle barrel and use as a diluted tomato feed. I don't know the science behind it but it seems to work very well for me.

[Plottered]

cheers for the replies, i will be visiting wales soon and bringing home a few souvenirs 

[DD.]

My grandfather swore by it.

Mrs Digger swore at it.

I was not allowed to repeat it after our first year of marriage.

[greenun]

Good stuff really! Put plenty on and dig it in. You can't have too much.

[aelf]

horse muck has more nutrients in it than sheep poo. This is because a horse has only one stomach so whatever a horse eats gets processed once before it passes through. That is why horse muck is brown, soft with bits in it. Sheep have 4 stomachs so what they eat is processed 4 times to get every bit of goodness out. that's why it is black n hard. It's still good for the soil (once composted) but horse muck is better 

the things we learn - 'life is one great big classroom' 

[Plottered]

cheers aelf interesting stuff there even if it is about poo 

[greenun]

Horse poo is the best except for the weeds. Compost it anyway. Don't dig it in.