Real bat guano

[postmanwatching]

Do they even sell real bat guano anymore? it all looks like a fossilized powder... I got some fresh stuff off ebay once and it seriosly smelled like chocolate and had this awesome texture. The old jamican bat quano was kind of fresh looking too but the new stuff looks like a powder. There def has to be a difference in the microbes...i think The fossilized stuff is baisically just pure phoshurus...with maybe a few minerals...

 

[postmanwatching]

apperently in some places they build nests in atticks...
that would be pretty cool to have your own little gauno farm...I think you make boxes to put on trees and get your own guano like that too...and help the bats!

 

[bam0813]

Just curious but do they somehow process/ compost bat guano. Thinking there could be a lot of nasties in fresh guano but half the attics in New England look like that

 

[bam0813]

I’ve often thought of collecting some but getting some sickness has always stopped me

 

[bam0813]

Not an environment I’d want to be in without a respirator

 

[Milky Weed]

I know you can build small bat roosts to help some of the now endangered bats. I think they are called bat boxes? Could harvest/clean it at night when the bats are out in the summer. Might be weird collecting from it during the winter im pretty sure they hibernate and that might disturb them.

 

[natureboygrower]

I know you can build small bat roosts to help some of the now endangered bats. I think they are called bat boxes? Could harvest/clean it at night when the bats are out in the summer. Might be weird collecting from it during the winter im pretty sure they hibernate and that might disturb them.

It would more than likely drop to the ground. I've tried bat boxes here in New England without much luck. They need to be exposed to full sun and high up. I'd love to get some bats flying around the property to help with bugs in the summertime. There's a nose mold ( i believe) endangering brown bats here.

 

[hillbill]

Fossilized Bat Guano is seriously high in P with little to no N. Fresh Bat Guano is high in N. Very different items.

 

[bam0813]

It would more than likely drop to the ground. I've tried bat boxes here in New England without much luck. They need to be exposed to full sun and high up. I'd love to get some bats flying around the property to help with bugs in the summertime. There's a nose mold ( i believe) endangering brown bats here.

It’s called white nose disease

 

[postmanwatching]

yeah that seems about right. it depends on what they eat too...the insect bat poop is high in chitin probably...wonder what bats who live nexxt to a fruit orchards poop would be...
humans have been in caves with bats since at least 50,000 years so i'm not really worried about it...
don't tell fauci or kyle kushman lmao

 

[Milky Weed]

yeah that seems about right. it depends on what they eat too...the insect bat poop is high in chitin probably...wonder what bats who live nexxt to a fruit orchards poop would be...
humans have been in caves with bats since at least 50,000 years so i'm not really worried about it...
don't tell fauci or kyle kushman lmao

Wild bats can also have a whole lotta rabies so i try to avoid them generally. now if someone had some immunized house bats maybe i would reconsider. Im sure some people have pet bats.

 

[postmanwatching]

now you can't tell me this little thing isn't cute

 

[GreenestBasterd]

A lot just sell seabird guano as guano instead of actual bat guano.
More sustainable is what I’ve heard.

 

[Donnieray]

apperently in some places they build nests in atticks...
that would be pretty cool to have your own little gauno farm...I think you make boxes to put on trees and get your own guano like that too...and help the bats!

An awesome find. I wouldn't mind having some boxes around the barn and property to collect from . But this attic is very nice and already well established.

 

[jimihendrix1]

Seabird Guano is actually the most mineral, and nutrient rich organic fertilizer there is.

Peruvian Seabird Guano is as good as it gets.
Also comes in Higher Nitrogen formula, and High Phosphorus formula.

In veg use 2 parts high Nitrogen to 1 part high phosphorus.
In flowering use 2 parts high Phosphorus x 1 Part High Nitrogen formula.

12-11-2
0-11-0
Potassium Sulfate 0-0-52.. Is also a great source of Sulfur, which is responsible for Terpene production, and is PH Neutral.
Kelp is a good source of trace elements, as is Azomite.

 

[GreenestBasterd]

Seabird