Cow dung is the most people want to process waste from farm. Cow manure contains the most nutrition for crop growing. If you have a cow farm, you can process your cow dung into organic fertilizer. That’s the best way to your cow manure disposal. It is a profitable by-project you have to utilize. In fact, cow dung contains 3% nitrogen, 2% phosphorous, 1% potassium and 14% organic matter. These are indispensable nutrient for organic garden.
The benefits of composting makes the cow dung valuable. Composting through the influence of water, temperature and oxygen, convert the useless thing into a useful project. In addition, cow manure is much more than other manure, if you do not process it properly, it will pollution the environment and the life of residents. Because the high output, you can make your cow manure into fertilizer with the help of compost turner.
How to Reduce Your Cow Dung Moisture to Make Compost
For high moisture manure, we designed the solid-liquid separator machine to separate the manure and water. Fresh cow manure is not convenient to compost directly. So before composting cow dung, you can use the separator machine to decrease the moisture. Using the cow dung dehydrator can turn the manure into valuable fish feed or organic fertilizer.
After dewatering, can you use the liquid to make fertilizer? Our machine not suitable for making liquid fertilizer. After dewatering, the solid cow manure can fermentation to make the powder organic fertilizer. So you can start your cow dung composting. Composting cow manure under natural conditions is a long process. But using a composting turner can shorten the process into 7 days. So how to make compost from cow dung? What are the key factors in the process of composting?
Tips on How to Make Compost From Cow Dung
Reducing the moisture content of your cow manure. In general, fresh cow dung contains more than 80% moisture.When the moisture content is more than 80%, you can add some straw or sawdust. Another way is using dehydrator to separate the cow dung and water. In general, one ton of fresh cow dung can produce about 0.3-0.5 tons of organic fertilizer.
Choosing the right equipment to turn your cow manure. Turn your compost pile is an essential step in the composting process. For many rural people in China, they only have 2-3 cows. So they just pile their manure. But when you have dozens or even hundreds of cows, you have to consider a more appropriate way to management it.
Complete you cow dung compost. In the process of composting, you have to pay attention to the temperature, PH value, moisture, C/N value and so on. This factors can inflect the quality and success of composting. The ideal composting C/N ratio is 20-30:1. and the most suitable moisture is 50%-60%.
Top 3 Compost Machine For Cow Dung Composting
Small Windrow Compost Turner for Composting Cattle Manure for Sale
In agricultural production, machines are essential. Windrow compost machine is a turner which fitting for small scale cow farm. For example, when you have 20 cows, the windrow compost turner is the best choice. The first step is to pile up your cow manure into long strips. And then you can drive the windrow compost turner to turn over you pile. It sounds easy. This machine can help you compost in a fraction of the time.
If you want to process 500-700 m³/h cow dung, our SXLDF-2400 crawler type compost turner is the excellent choice. Our machine diesel engine have own electrical and front shovels hydraulic system. The composting height is 600-1000mm, composting width is 2300mm and its power is 75hp.
Middle Groove Type Compost Turner for Cow Dung Composting
In the most cases, you can use the groove type compost turner in anyway small or large scale cow farm. It depends on the fermentation trench you built. When you have large output cow manure to dispose, you can build multiple trenches. When you have little output cow manure, you can build one trench. We can design 0.8m, 1.0m,1.2m, 1.5m, four turning depth as your requirements. And we have water spray system in the top of the machine. How many spare parts the machines included? It control panel, groove changing device, electric cable winding wheel and other optional spare parts. The optional spare parts includes water spray system, rail and turning teeth.
Large Scale Wheel Type Compost Turner For Sale
For commercial cow farm, one day’s cow dung production is enough to compost once. In this cases, we recommend you the wheel type compost turner. Wheel type compost turner is also one of the trench composting. But the difference between groove type compost turner is that it only need set up two walls. The largest width can be 30m. The length can decide according to you output. You can turn 6m a day, and you can keep feeding and turning.
What Can be Used After Cow Dung Composting?
After composting, the cow manure is the rich source of nutrition for garden, orchard and farmland. It has many benefits for plants growth. It play an essential role in the soil. Firstly, it can improve the moisture of the soil. Secondly, as a soil amendment, it can provide the beneficial bacteria, organic matter and required npk content for crops.
Another way is to turn your cow manure into organic fertilizer. Besides composting, there are many steps to make fertilizers. Such as crushing, batching, mixing, granulating, drying, cooling, screening, packaging and so on. This is a complete process to make organic fertilizer. Although it sounds a little flexible, in fact it only need few workers can finish the production. Because the full line is connect by conveyor belt, and it can produce granules automatically. To make your cow manure into fertilizer is a source recycling method. There are no reasons to utilize your cow dung as organic fertilizer.