Hello everyone, I am amazed that someone would spend the spring photographing cowpats. Bob Spotts reference to the West Island confirms his honorary Kiwi status. A comment like that definitely makes him one of us. Keith how could you assume…
Category: Fertilizing
cattle and other livestock
Cattle tend to eat around the clumps of daffodils but I would guess that their four chamber stomach will kill most daffodil seeds. Then you have a whole host of other species of livestock with different diets or different types…
daffodils lifting up a cow patty
In this shot you see an older, thin cow patty that is so strong that when the daffodils attempted to push up through the patty they actually broke the patty loose from the ground. At this stage we actually called…
cow patty from hay
You can easily see the difference in height of a winter cow patty that was produced from hay or winter killed grass in the fields. Higher in indigestible fiber, lots less water and you end up with a pile of…
fresh load dropped on n. Odorus
As you can see timing of the fertilizer application is critical! If you wait just a couple of weeks too late when you apply the fresh fertilizer to the daffodils, the foliage is up too high and you will mash…
cow patties and daffodils
The question came up whether daffodil seeds sprout in cow chips or other livestock dung. This shot shows a cow patty that seems to have been dropped on this daffodil when the foliage was already up out of the ground…