Why can't hog manure be used as fertilizer?

Question

why can't hog waste be spread on fields to be used as fertilizer? is it too high in nitrogen or something?

Answer 1

Pigs can catch a lot of the same diseases that humans can, and their manure can contaminate the soil.  If you've heard about the tomato ban going on right now, and the spinach ban last year, those are linked to contaminated water or manure.

Answer 2

Because hogs mostly do not eat healthy grasses. Only rotting foods. And also, because they eat dirty and leftover foods, many worms enter to their body.

Answer 3

It can be used........but needs to set for a period of time....it's too hot...........rabbit is one of the finest.

Answer 4

This is just a guess, but some paracites like the round worm can be transmited to people from hogs.

Answer 5

it's acidic. How do you think they eat so much junk?

Answer 6

Would you send your brother to go and do the spreading?

Answer 7

My dad used it on his farm...however, it has a tendency to 'burn' certain crops.  Dad would put it down after the harvest, and let it sit over the winter time.  I suppose this took the 'sting' out of it.  BTW, he grew soybeans...maybe this had something to do with it...soybeans replenish the nitrogen, so possibly he didn't have to worry about the nitrogen content...

Answer 8

Can't you just see the Business-is -Warfare slogans:

"WE do NOT fertilize with PIG POO!"

Smithers' Potatoes- Where you KNOW

it's ONLY  Potato you're tasting!

Any farmer who could prove his competitors used swine dung to fertilize his crops could leak the info and drive them out of business in a season!

Answer 9

Unlike most manure that gives of methane hog waste also gives off high concentrations of H2S hydrogen sulfide. smells like rotten eggs to the tenth power. You are ale to smell it for a second then it numbs your senses. It will kill you if inhaled at fairly high concentrations.

It also carries salmonella and other diseases.

Answer 10

It is used. Too hot refers to too much nitrogen in it. Chicken  stuff will burn certain crops too, but it is good. And, its chickens that can have salmonella. Cow and horse contain too much undigested seeds that grow as weeds.They are used with added herbicide.  Sheep is good. They all smell with the H2S. Letting it sit and decompose for awhile is better, and that kills the possible pathogens. Ask a hog farmer- they do use it.

Answer 11

Hey, I lived on a tiny farm that raised pigs, goats, horses, cows and we used all of them for fertilizer. Pig manure has lots of methane in it but my mom had three foot long zucchinis, incredible tasting cherry tomatoes, and pumpkins the size of truck tires. Most large domesticated animals such as cows, horses and pigs have high percentages of methane gas which is actually flammable and under the right conditions, combustible! We had dairies near us and they sold them to make room for a bunch of new tract homes. The problem is the developers did not remove enough of the manure and there was a big fear that the houses might actually explode! No joke. It was in the newspapers!

In any case, you CAN use pig manure as fertilizer in small amounts, at least we did.