Goat manure processing mainly including two sides, how to make goat manure compost and how to make fertilizer from goat manure. This page will provides you the goat manure composting process and equipment, machines for making goat manure powder or granules fertilizer.
How to Make Goat Manure Compost?
Composting goat manure involves creating a mixture of goat manure and carbon-rich materials such as dry leaves, straw, or shredded paper, and allowing the mixture to decompose over time. This process can take several months, but the end result is a nutrient-rich fertilizer that can be used to improve soil quality and plant growth. For a farm with more than 500 sheep, it is not feasible to rely on natural decomposition without any tools for composting, as it would be a time-consuming and labor-intensive process.
Specific Process for Goat Manure Composting
Start by collecting the goat manure from your goats’ living area. You can collect it using a shovel, pitchfork, or other tool, and place it into a compost trench or pile.
To balance the high nitrogen content in goat manure, add carbon-rich materials such as dry leaves, straw, or shredded paper to the compost pile. Mix the manure and carbon-rich materials together to create a 2:1 ratio of carbon to nitrogen.
Keep the compost pile moist, but not too wet. The ideal moisture content should be around 50-60%. Add water if the pile becomes too dry, and turn it over to aerate it if it becomes too wet.
Turning the compost pile regularly will help aerate it and speed up the decomposition process. Use a compost turner to mix the compost pile every week or two.
The natural composting process typically takes 6-12 months, depending on the size of the pile and the environmental conditions. You’ll know the compost is ready when it’s dark brown and crumbly, with no visible chunks of manure.
Efficient and Productive Equipment for Goat Manure Fermentation
Groove Type Compost Turner & Moving Type Compost Turner for Sheep Farms with Less Than 500 Sheep
This two machine is designed for small scale goat farms composting. For example , an adult goat produces about 1.5kg of feces per day. If you have a farm with 500-head sheep, you can acquire 750 kg manure every day. How to process these manure? The first method is build a groove for your goat manure, you just need put them in the groove. And using the groove type compost turner turns it regularly. For those who how to drive machine, this sheep manure composting machine can accomplish automatic composting without people driving.
Another method is piling up your goat manure into long strips. Then the moving type composting machine able to compost along the long strips. The compost turner has four wheels for one person driving. You can drive this machine compost your goat manure easily. If the moisture of your goat manure is too less, we add the sprinkler on the machine. It can accomplish sprinkle water while composting.
Crawler type compost turner & Wheel type compost turner for Sheep Farms with More Than 500 Sheep
For large commercial goat manure farms, considering the mass output capacity, we provides you this two machines for you choose. Crawler type compost turner is one of the windrow composting machine which can compost your goat manure on the ground by walking. It can process 500-1500m3 sheep manure per hour.
Wheel type compost turner is our biggest goat manure composting machine. For those people who want to start commercial sheep manure fertilizer making, wheel type compost turner can process 20t/h goat waste one time.
How to Make Fertilizer From Goat Manure
What Should You Do to Make Powder Goat Manure Fertilizer?
Crushing the sheep manure compost for making fine powder with crusher machine: In the compost process, there will be some caking in the goat manure fermentation. Here, SX provides you the vertical crusher to shred the big lumps.
Screening goat manure compost with rotary screening machine: In order to screen out the impurity of the goat manure fertilizer, screening machine is important. It can improve the quality of the goat manure powder fertilizer.
Packing machine for your goat manure powder fertilizer: SX automatic packing machine can package your powder goat dung fertilizer in bags.
What Should You Do to Make Goat Manure Fertilizer Granules?
Goat Manure Granulating Process
The goat manure pellets making process also have the crushing and screening process, however, the more important step is granulating process. After crushing, the powdery goat manure material will be send to the granulator. The granulator will make the goat manure compost material into granules. We recommend you our new type organic fertilizer granulator, which has a high quality to make pellets.
Granules Drying and Cooling Process
Granules making process adopts wet granulation, so it has a certain moisture of your sheep manure granules. So you have to dry the pellets using the rotary drum dryer. And then through the cooler to cool down the temperature of the goat dung pellets.
Packaging Goat Manure Pellets Process
The last process is packing your goat dung pellets. The packing machine can package your manure into bags for better sale. Once the sheep manure fertilizer is processed and ready for use, it can be packed into bags or other containers for storage and transport. A fertilizer packing machine can weigh and fill the bags automatically, which can save time and labor.