Pros and Cons of Chicken Litter

Things that I have learned from using chicken litter as an relatively inexpensive organic fertilizer for our food plots:

1.       It smells

2.       It continues to smell for a long time, especially if there is no rain

3.       When it is spread by a truck it doesn’t just land on the field; sometimes it lands on nearby trees.

4.       Flies arrive with the litter.

5.       It clings to boots and tractor tires.  Then they smell, too.

All of this can be accepted if the litter works as a good organic fertilizer.  But how can we tell?  It still smells.  Perhaps, due to a serious drought, that is the only evidence we will have this deer season.

Truck Delivering Chicken Litter