If anyone is looking for manure, horse in particular, look in the yellow pages for riding stables, boarding facitilies, and so forth. Call and ask if they have manure you can pick up for free. If they don't, ask if they know anyone who does give it away. It's out there. :)

There are two places I can get it easily. One is a private stable that advertised on Craig's list. The other is a volunteer adaptive riding facility that lets gardeners drive in and take what they want from their large 'collection pile'. They have a box for donations for their cause.

Our local zoo also has 'ZooPoo'. I've never gotten that. Too far away.

I'd love to get some bunny poo, but don't know anyone who keeps rabbits.

Is there any benefits if I mix into the soil some banana peels or any other fruit peels?
What about some cut grass after a lawn the grass ?
Dry leaf,Fish bones,Dropped fig?

Is this good or am I going to invite some mice like that?

my uncle puts the Horse manure into a sack then it goes into a water butt, then he feed his plants with the water.

I have bunnies and I use the poo all the time. It won't burn plants like chicken poo. When I have more than I need I post on the yahoo group "Bunny Power for gardens". You can find it and get rid of it there....usually for free, here's the link....

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bunnypowerforgardens/?yguid=473855892

Hi,
I've used horse manure and sheep. Using it, I have had great results. Sheep and chicken have high nitrogen so I would watch your amount because you can burn your fig trees.

Luigi

Composted sheep manure is no problem, I have used it 50-50 with coir and had nothing but great results. 

Is anybody using mushroom manure/compost?

I would compost it first. Pretty much any manure you buy is really strong stuff. If you do put it around a tree, make sure its an older tree that can take it.

YES! I found bunny manure
I think I will mix horse and bunny manure

Freash horse poo is to hot (high in nitrogen) mix with straw, leaves, lawn clipping and let it cook a bit to make compose.

As for organic I grow organic. Use bonemeal whenground thaws and isn't likly to freeze again. Use bloodmeal when the firast buds start popping open. Top dress the plants with the compost you have made. Repeat every three to four months on inground trees. At least that's works great here.

Over winter while figs are asleep try to work compost in to the first 3 to 4 inches of soil. It will improve every year.

I use sheep manure in my garden. Natural, slow release pellets.

Cow manure is good does wonders for ur soil,ive been potting up with the 511 mix man does it dry up fast next time going to use cow manure with compost with the mix.

Old topic but I use what comes out of my horse barn, mostly sawdust and horse waste. I use this for everything with good results. Tomatoes and squash need tums for calcium or I get blossom end rot. I guess figs may need tums too. Not sure what else, any ideas?

I plant my figs in a mixture of about 3 parts composed cow manure, 1 part course sand. They seem to love it. Also, last fall I mulched 2-3 ft around each tree with well-composed manure. I am going to skip any chemical fertilizer this spring and see how it goes.

As with most fruits, manure or other high nitrogen fertilizers will make your figs look great. Big leaves and lots of growth. If you like growing ornamentals pour it on. If you want lots of high quality fruit then go easy on the nitrogen.

Horse manure is not as high in Nitrogen as most manures like cow, sheep or pig. It does however provide a great deal of organic material to lighten a heavy soil which is good.  It is a 'hot' manure however and should be composted before before using unless you live where the ground freezes during the winter.  If so it works really well when applied after the ground freezes and allowed to break down over the winter and work its way down to the root zone. Decaying horse manure releases heat as it decays which may serve to protect roots in winter and help warm the soil a bit earlier in spring.  The French used to use it to heat coldframes to force earlier production of produce in spring.

If you get it from a commercial stable you should ask about whether they lime their stalls to dry them out and reduce flies. If they do, then you might need to reduce the amount of lime you use on your trees. The PH can get pretty high with limed horse manures. We compost it with chopped leaves and grass clippings over the winter and plough it into the garden in spring.  We have gone from brick making red clay hardpan to having a layer of beautiful dark brown topsoil in our garden.

What is the proper Ph for figs?

I'm not sure if this has been covered up-thread but you want to make sure that the horse (or other) manure you get isn't contaminated with herbicides.  This can occur if the horses ingested hay that was treated with herbicides.  It may or may not break down via composting. This is definitely a problem for vegetable gardens and could be a problem for figs as well.  Maybe someone has more info. about this.

What about worm castings. I have had some plants grow well with it. But could be luck as there is no proof it was the cause for growth.

I had my car towed recently and learned a lesson from the towing driver. he was from Iraq, his dad was a tomato farmer there. he was happy to see that my chicken run free in my 'less than 10min from downtown' yard.  In chatting with him, he wanted to teach me how his dad used the manure.

Really does not matter if fresh or composted.  Take a shovel full of their waste and soak it in a bucket with water for 3-4 days.. it stinks! ewww... then, moist the soil and pour that slime soaking poo on the soil near the roots (not on the leaves).... repeat every week... if needed water the plant a bit more...  with my large tree, I carved a trench on the base about 3 feet from the trunk and pour all my excess poo mix.

You can also do this with weeds/leaves, compost or bunny poo.. soak them, once diluted it is easier for the plant to absorb.  My yard explodes with growth, and yes, this year, my fig tree produced its best crop ever.  

our local Zoo seels Zoodoo, people line up and pay lots for it. however, it is mosly wooden chips and little manure.

When you mix fresh manure with water it leaches a lot of ammonia out which gets dispelled as gas to the air making it safer, I didn't realize you could do it with chicken manure so quickly with no ill effect, that is very good to know thanks for sharing Grasa.  I had always heard if you have fresh rabbit manure you can leach it and use right away just to be safe but wasn't necessary.