Sheep-Fresh Manure


TABLE 30. SHEEP FRESH MANURE CHARACTERISTICS *
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Parameter	Units^a	Total		Parameter Concentration				Parameter Mass
		No of	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------					-------------lb/day/-----------
		Observ	minimum	maximum	median	mean	std dev	head	1000 lb
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Manure^b	lb/60 lb/day	29	1.4	4.3	2.2	2.4	0.65	2.4	40
Urine	%manure	10	20	50	38	37	8.6	0.87	15
Density	lb/ft³	11	59	65	62	62	2.1	-	-
TS	%wb	39	15	46	26	28	6.9	0.67	11
TSS	%db	1	80	80	80	80	-	0.54	9.0
VS	%db	12	75	86	82	82	3.2	0.55	9.1
BOD₅	mg/kg	8	16421	47784	27937	27938	11317	0.067	1.1
COD	mg/kg	33	162126	351691	268961	264002	48491	0.63	11
TOC	mg/kg	2	29955	41025	35490	35490	5535	0.085	1.4
TKN	lb/ton	38	12	31	20	21	5.7	0.025	0.42
NH₃N	%tkn	1	28	28	28	28	-	0.0069	0.12
P₂O₅	lb/ton	36	5.1	18	9.2	9.4	2.8	0.011	0.19
PO₄	%p2o5	3	20	58	33	37	16	0.0042	0.069
K₂O	lb/ton	37	6.7	31	19	19	6.3	0.023	0.38
B	lb/ton	2	0.020	0.020	0.020	0.020	0.00010	0.000024	0.00040
Ca	lb/ton	7	3.4	21	12	12	5.0	0.014	0.23
Cd	lb/ton	1	0.00036	0.00036	0.00036	0.00036	-	0.00000043	0.0000072
Cl	lb/ton	1	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	-	0.0053	0.089
Cr	lb/ton	1	0.0014	0.0014	0.0014	0.0014	-	0.0000017	0.000029
Cu	lb/ton	6	0.0072	0.015	0.0098	0.010	0.0023	0.000012	0.00020
Fe	lb/ton	5	0.27	0.48	0.32	0.34	0.072	0.00041	0.0068
Mg	lb/ton	7	1.4	3.7	2.6	2.8	0.86	0.0033	0.056
Mn	lb/ton	4	0.020	0.051	0.036	0.036	0.016	0.000042	0.00071
Mo	lb/ton	4	0.00033	0.046	0.0020	0.012	0.019	0.000015	0.00025
Na	lb/ton	4	1.8	5.5	4.1	3.9	1.3	0.0047	0.078
Ni	lb/ton	est^c	-	-	-	0.013	-	0.000016	0.00026
Pb	lb/ton	1	0.0042	0.0042	0.0042	0.0042	-	0.0000050	0.000084
S	lb/ton	4	1.6	2.0	1.8	1.8	0.14	0.0021	0.035
Zn	lb/ton	5	0.038	0.11	0.050	0.058	0.026	0.000070	0.0012
ADF	%db	2	49	64	57	57	7.5	0.38	6.3
CF	%db	1	33	33	33	33	-	0.22	3.7
CP	%db	3	13	17	16	15	1.7	0.10	1.7
EE	%db	1	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.8	-	0.019	0.32
NDF	%db	2	59	72	66	66	6.5	0.44	7.3
EC	cols/100 gm	2	6.30E+07	9.40E+08	5.02E+08	5.02E+08	4.40E+08	5.45E+09	9.09E+10
FC	cols/100 gm	3	1.60E+08	1.60E+09	1.60E+09	1.12E+09	6.80E+08	1.21E+10	2.02E+11
FS	cols/100 gm	5	3.50E+07	3.80E+09	9.10E+07	1.56E+09	1.83E+09	1.69E+10	2.82E+11
TC	cols/100 gm	4	4.50E+07	1.60E+09	1.73E+08	4.98E+08	6.39E+08	5.40E+09	9.00E+10
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* References:Biological & Agricultural Engineering Dept, North Carolina State University, Jan 1994.
	Agronomic Division, North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services.
^a All concentrations as is or wet basis (wb) except as noted dry matter basis (db); all mass values wb.
^b Feces and urine as voided.
^c Mean value extrapolated from other data; measured values not available.