Just feast your eyes on these nuggets, directly from the 3 stomached ruminant Alpaca. Daughter in law Jill gifted me with this bucket o goodness, direct from Caprice Vineyards here in Medford, where their alpacas help with fertilizing the vines.
The good thing about alpaca & llama manure is that it is almost odorless and very dry. The NPK is fairly low 1.5-0.2-1.1 (Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium) so that means it won't burn plants if you applied it directly.
However since alpacas and llamas eat far less grass and hay to body weight compared to the other ruminants (cows, horses, sheep & goats) their manure is dense and really needs to be composted with other manures or with lots of mulch before being applied in the garden.
The other option is to add water and make a "tea" for plants while also breaking down the nuggets. Of course you can dig it in to the soil and just wait for it to decompose.
Since I have a bag of chicken poo-poo, I'll try combining them and adding some leaf mold, along with seed meal (alfalfa or compost starter) to speed up the process. I'll save it for the most pampered plants in my veggie garden...peppers and tomatoes.
Results in August!
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