Fresh bat poop question...

[WeedthePeople]

How does one go about using fresh bat poop? Is there something that needs to be done to it before using it? The grow I am contemplating is strictly organic, and I have read where bat poop is great stuff. Anyway...

The reason I ask is my wife just notified me that some poop of some sort has been collecting just outside the railing of our covered porch. I went out to look at it a few minutes ago and sure enough... poop... sorta like rat poop. I looked up and saw a bat in the peak just under the eave. I went inside and upstairs to the attic and found a bat nest with a growing pile of poop at the bottom. The bats have apparently gotten through the slats in the ventilation portion of the eave, but there is a screen to stop anything from getting further. They have built a nest between the screen and the slats. They have been there for a while looks like... the screen is bulged out at the bottom with poop.

Think I should try to use it?

What would you do? It doesn't appear they can actually get inside the attic, the poop is really my biggest concern. I'm not really an animal killer either although if it is a health concern, I will do what I have to.

 

[WeedthePeople]

Ugh, I googled it and it doesn't look good... histoplasmosis...

Looks like I won't be using it afterall...

 

[snuggles]

Yeah get the stuff that has been sitting for hundreds of years LOL. Sunleaves makes some good guanos and so does FF.

See, about 8.00 a bag, seabird guano is great too.

sunleaves.com/catalog.asp?cat=8


Fox Farm Guanos and other organics, the Peace of Mind series. I use them all in my legal gardens, look for their guano and the Fruit and Flower is great for Flowering IMO. around 7.95 a box

foxfarmfertilizer.com/products_pom1.html

 

[tcooper1]

I got some from my garden center.It is called Dr.Earth.I checked out what was in it and it said"Bat poop" and that was it.
But it was to much for my plants I just used a table spoon and it burnt the tips of leaves.
Hope this helps....
godd luck and have a great day

 

[snuggles]

Yeah with bat poo you want the aged stuff, also that seabird guano is great IMO. It's all about the poo

 

[thief]

ya wanna grow good chit ya gotta use good chit. i raise chickens for there poo an ppl think i like eggs lol. anyone need sum eggs?? i gots a few doz extra lol.

 

[massproducer]

Here is some more info on Guano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano