In order to fully utilize goat manure, people often compost goat manure to get harmless compost and apply it to soil and plants. As one of the best animal manures, goat manure can supply nutrients to plants and improve soil structure. Compared with chicken manure and cow dung, the content of nitrogen in goat manure is higher than that in chicken and cow manure. Therefore, you can deal with goat manure by composting.
Generally speaking, we cannot directly apply goat manure. On the one hand, fresh goat droppings contain much pathogens, parasite and its eggs and other harmful substance. On the other hand, fresh goat droppings may ferment in the soil, and the heat released will burn the roots of plants. However, if you compost goat manure before application, microorganisms will digest organic matters and convert them into nutrients. At the same time, the heat produced during composting can achieve 60 to 70℃, which can kill above mentioned harmful substance. After composting, you can get harmless and valuable goat manure compost.
This methods is also suitable for other animal manures, such as horse manure disposal, cow dung managementand so on. But how to compost goat manure and what should be paid attention to, you will find answers in the following part.
In terms of composting goat manure, you should focus on moisture (50%-60% is suitable), temperature and oxygen content. To be honest, composting process is microorganism activities. These microorganisms will consume oxygen and water, when they convert organic matters into nutrients. In addition, if the heat they produced is too higher, it will do harm to microorganismsthemselves. Therefore, you should strictly control these three factors.
Firstly, you should prepare raw materials for composting. In addition to goat manure, you can add some auxiliaries, such as saw dust, straw, rice hull for adjusting moisture, air permeability and C/N ratio, maize flour to provide carbohydrate for microorganisms and fermented culture. Then you need to mix them evenly.
Secondly, you can stack goat manure and auxiliary materials together. You can pile them up in long rows or place them in fermentation grooves. The height, width and length of windrow compost pile are usually 0.8 to 1.5 m, 1.5 to 2 m， and 2 m or more.
For composting in grooves, the height of organic waste should be lower than that of groove.
Finally, you should regularly turn the compost pile, until the fermentation finishes. 2-4 times per day in the first week and 1 time for each two days in the following weeks is enough.
Goat manure compost is loose, black and without odor, which is good organic fertilizer. Except for personal use, you can produce bagged goat manure compost for commercial purpose. Here, you may need do the following works and use following goat manure powder making machines
for making fine powder: Due to stack, there must be some caking in fermented goat manure, so you need to eliminate the caking and produce fine powder. Here, SEEC can provide you new type vertical crusher, which can make caking into pieces efficiently.
In order to guarantee the purity of compost fertilizer and improve its quality, compost screen is necessary. It has different screening levels, so it can guarantee the quality of final fertilizer products.
with fertilizer bagging machine: It can automatically finish filling, sewing and packaging.
Compost goat manure is just the preliminary process of goat manure management. In addition to make goat manure powder, you can also make goat manure compost into goat dung fertilizer pellets. Fertilizer pellets is more convenient for application, transportation and storage. The complete production process includes crushing process, screening process, granulating process, drying and cooling process, screening process (select out unqualified pellets), coating process and packaging process. Among them, the first two and last processes are same with those of powdery fertilizer production. So, we mainly introduce the following processes:
Before granulating, crushing process of goat manure compost is necessary. With the help of the < fertilizer crusher, it can completely make the manure compost into powder materials so that we can make a good preparation for mixing process. Through this process, you not only can get high quality compost, but also make full use of making granules. Here, we recommend new type vertical crusher, semi-wet material crusher, hammer crushing machine to you. All of them can help you achieve your purpose. After screening, the conveyor belt will send goat manure compost to manure-pellet-machine. With the help of manure pellet making machines and water, fertilizer powder gradually becomes fertilizer pellets. Here, we recommend new type organic fertilizer granulator to you. It utilizes mechanical stirring force, frictional force and water to make pellets. Therefore, the pellets made by it is harder. Besides new type organic fertilizer granulator, pan granulator, rotary drum stirring granulator are also suitable.
As mentioned above, the wet compost granulation method will increase the moisture of fertilizer pellets. Therefore, you need to remove extra water content of goat manure pellets by \rotary drum drying and cooling machine for later screening and packing.（Drier let the goat manure pellet compost ‘s moisture content in a proper rate; cooler will cool the dried compost pellets in a certain temperature for packing and bagging.）The rotary drum drying machine utilizes heat produced by hot blast furnace to dry pellets. The heat usually can achieve 80℃. Then you need to adopt machine to cool the temperature of pellets to ambient temperature and bring vapor on the surface of manure pellets. If you have requirements on the gas released from rotary cooling machine, you can adopt dust collector to deal with it.
The purpose of coating goat manure pellets is to inhibit agglomeration among pellets during transportation. What’s more, you can also coat manure pellets with microbial agents to make bio organic fertilizer.