Livestock Manure Management

As a livestock farm owner, managing your farm well is your responsibility. A proper livestock farm plan is beneficial for animals growing and the environment. In this process, livestock manure management is an item you must pay attention to. It seems the useless thing from animals. A horse produces 50 pounds of manure every day. A cow can produce 90 pounds. Over time, there will be a large amount of livestock manure needed to dispose of. But how to treat manure waste in your livestock farms effectively? There are many livestock manure management methods for your choice. Among them, converting it into organic fertilizer is the best choice. It can not only eliminate manure waste quickly but also increase your earnings. Here, v can provide you with the best solutions.

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What Can You Do With Livestock Manure Before Organic Fertilizer Making?

Collect manure regularly

Because your main purpose is creating a clean environment to keep animal healthy. So first, you need to collect manure from barns, feedlots, and pastures regularly to prevent buildup and reduce the risk of environmental contamination.

Store manure properly

Then after collection, how to store livestock manure? Store manure in a way that minimizes runoff and leaching. Manure storage structures should be located away from water sources and human habitat. Proper storage structures can prevent nutrient losses and reduce odor emissions. For the storage of fresh livestock manure, which has high moisture content, it is advisable to use cement manure pool.

the fermentation materials of Manure Crawler Processing Machine

fermentation materials

Manure Moving Composting Turner in SX Project Management of Fertilizer Plant

How to Control the Water Content of Manure During the Livestock Farm Waste Management?

In general, we cannot start organic fertilizer making from fresh livestock manure directly. Because it usually is a mixture of solids and urine, especially cow dung, pig manure, etc. Their water content is high and can reach 75%-90%. It is not suitable for composting. Generally, you can adjust it by bedding in your livestock farms. Bedding often refers to dry materials such as straw, sawdust, corn stalks and nut shells. But for commercial organic fertilizer production, you may need to dewater manure faster.

At that time, professional manure dehydrator is the best choice. It can help you reduce the moisture content of livestock waste to 30%-40% in several minutes. After dewatering, this solid manure is good composting feedstock. SX can provide you with two types of dewatering machines for your livestock waste management. Screw type dehydrator can process animal manure with a water content of 50%-80%. But for over 80% moisture content manure, we recommend you buy an inclined-screen type solid-liquid separator.

Dewatering Machine in SX Manure Processing Plant

Dehydrated livestock manure produced by SX dewatering equipment

Manure Dewatering Machine in SX Manure Processing Plant

Which is the fastest way to turn livestock manure into organic fertilizer?-Composting

After dewatering, there are three methods to further process livestock farm waste into organic fertilizer. Turning it into compost, powdery fertilizer or granules. Among them, composting is the simplest and fastest way. In this process, a suitable compost turner is necessary. And in SX, you can buy the following quality compost machine for livestock manure management:

Two windrow compost turners for cow manure composting

These machines are designed for start cow manure composting on the flat ground directly. Only need to pile cattle waste into ling windrows, you can drive special compos turner to make livestock manure compost fertilizer. The length, width, and height of every windrow will depend on the composting equipment you choose and manure volume in your farms. And below are two types of windrow compost turners.

Crawler Type Poultry Manure Compost Turner

This turner can effectively adopt rubber track chassis, providing stable support throughout the poultry manure comforting process plant operation. The machine’s main part is the rotor which features shafts that deliver even livestock manure stirring while eliminating possible caking. Since the front push plates can quickly adopt hydraulic drive, it delivers an automatic compost pile arrangement.

Manure Crawler Processing Machine

Manure Moving Composting Turner in SX Project Management of Fertilizer Plant

Self-Propelled Poultry Manure Compost Turner

This turner adopts 4 wheels, allowing a single person to complete moving forward, turning, and backward with ease. It also features stirring apparatus, stirring and arranging the poultry compost pile.

Three equipment for compost pig manure in trenches

As name suggests, this kind of compost equipment straddles the fermentation groove to compost pig manure. In addition, besides small capacity trench type composter, it also has compost equipment which is designed for large scale organic fertilizer fermentation.

Groove Type Compost Turner

This turner completes turning livestock manure compost pile automatically using a control cabinet. The machine’s stirring apparatus can adopt hydraulic drive, saving energy and improving turning efficiency. Plus, the double-grove type compost turner delivers a larger composting scale.

Chain Plate Type Poultry Manure Compost Turner

This turner is ideal for deep-grove operations. Realizing the full contact between air and poultry manure increases oxygen content and keeps the proper temperature in the compost pile. This results in full fermentation that produces premium-grade poultry manure fertilizer.

Wheel Livestock Manure Compost Turner

The turner’s stirring wheel turns the pig manure thoroughly and evenly during composting. Because of large capacity, it helps shorten the aerobic fermentation time through oxygen and water content and temperature adjustments in the compost pile. And it can compost livestock manure in a 30 m width fermentation trench.