Nitrogen Components Explained Manure, Meat & More!

27 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Animal manure and dead animals are concentrated nitrogen sources for soil. A cow's manure is essentially compressed grass from its diet, and dead chickens work similarly. Understanding these inputs helps build better compost and soil amendments.

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We've got our carbon components, our dead stuff, our nitrogen components, our living stuff, and then we've got high nitrogen components, which is those nitrogen things compressed into something like manure. So if a goat eats lots of green foliage, if a cow eats lots of green grass, its poo is like condensed grass, and its body, if it was to die, like if we had a dead chicken, we had a dead animal, it would also be high nitrogen. So we've got manure, we've got dead bodies or meat or animals.