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Harvesterguy
Posted 10/25/2016 08:00 (#5598975 - in reply to #5598542)
Subject: RE: Side dressing feather meal



Eastern Shore of MD
I sidedressed about 65 acres with feathermeal 10 years ago. I tried using a IH cultivator fertilizer attachment with the old plate type metering wheel in the bottom and had a lot of problems with lumps plugging the outlet. I would think a drop spreader would have similar problems unless the agitation was extremely aggressive. Even with agitation I had problems. I started running everything through rat wire to screen out lumps but it was too slow and I ended up broadcasting which worked great. The root of my problem was that the warehouse loader would run over a little making a cake and then scrape the floor with the bucket on the next pass causing the lumps. Whatever you do, don't let the feathermeal get wet; it'll revert back to chicken manure... trust me.

Edited by Harvesterguy 10/25/2016 08:00
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