My neighbours chocolate lab likes to come along an eat chicken manure pellets like crunchy snacks as soon as they go on the bulb pots! yuk!
I to bought some in a 15kg bag from homebase (with my nectar card points natch!) I think it was 5/6.99. much better value than their buckets which were around 12.
I do agree about horse manure especially with dock and dandelion seeds. but you cant beat it for doing the soil good.
x Sunloving
I used chicken pellets/manure for several years until the price continued to escalate and the foxes moved in to help with the digging. :( Apart from that I've added only 2 bag of well rotted stable manure in about seven years.
My soil appears healthy, has a brilliant texture and retains moisture pretty well - even the solid clay 1/2 plot is coming along nicely at last.
Every year I dig in barrow loads of compost as I have a compost heap 12' x 6' and often 5' deep. A friend adds all of his grass mowings from his round so there's always more where that came from. It seems to help. ;)
