Eitheus, glad to know I can start using my goat poop fresh. I've heard mixed opinions, so glad to hear from first hand experience that it has worked for you. I have been spreading it in areas of my land that I have not planted yet. Then, I'll come back later and scoop up some old stuff that looks like it's been sitting around a long time and spread it on my trees. I'll put the next few loads directly on some trees and see how it goes.

I was disney orlando two weeks ago and WOW, spring had hit hard there and the flowering trees were amazing.  I found mnost of them online and were not appropriate for my subtropical gulf south homestead. 

I still took a few cuttings and on researching came across a native bauhinia that I'm trying to track down on line without luck.  Here is one of the more exotic oriental ones like at disney

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natashap/462625192/

I learned to do that with my chicken and rabbit poopy also, soak it for 3-4 days, and dilute to water on the weekly basis. I do not buy any fertilizer.  Never did.

If you add about a 1.4 cup -1/2 cup of black strap molasses (unsulphured as it can kill beneficial bacteria) and add an air pump like the ones for a fish aquarium for about 24 hours it will get a sweet yeasty smell and is ready to use.  Also roses really like alfalfa so if you can get some alfalfa and put it in a couple king sized panty hose as well as the manure in panty hose you keep the solids out of the mix and top dress with the solids when it is done, works well but when it gets hot the nitrogen disappears quickly so you may need to apply several times a week depending on your results.

I toured a 300 acre organic herb farm near Asheville several years back. They were making their own compost with a windrow style machine. They had a row of Ginkos on either side of their driveway. They had top-dressed the ones on one side with compost and not the other. The difference was dramatic. I top-dress with compost then mulch with hay over that. I don't prefer hay but it's what I've got (the neighbor takes hay off my field on shares, and my share is enough for mulch and compost additive) and it works.