Can I use chicken manure pellets on Hydrangeas?

I have been Googling and found that some sites suggest it's okay to use, but one article said to avoid it as it's too high in nitrogen.

I've bought a bucket load for the shrubs and will shortly be planting out some Hydrangeas (have a gardener coming to widen my borders for me).

a) Can I use chicken manure pellets?
b) Can I use them now or best to leave until spring?

Thanks in advance

 

I have been using it for years on my garden borders and I find it good stuff and it helps to give the plants and shrubs a much needed feed after the long cold wet winters we seem to have (either snow,frost or rain).

This year I have a Tree Mallow growing near my front door which must have come from my bird seed and dropped by the birds and it has grown very tall(which could be its natural height)and which has been fed on chicken pellets and it is full of flowers with more to come and the bees have loved all this food source.

I have even given my hydrangea a feed of these pellets which I sprinkled on the top of the soil in the container and then watered in as normal and I up to yet haven't had lots of growth but will have to see what happens to it next year as I probably won't add any pellets to the container.

Why don't you add a few pellets round the plants when you put them into the border as the feed will help the root system to get established.As we still have some of the summer months left and I think it will help.Dont use them after the Autumn as they will just sit in the ground doing nothing and so will be wasted.

 

I'm going to refer you back to the articles you have already read. Look at the source: is the information based on someone's opinion, experience or fact?
I could google any subject and find many people expressing their opinion one way and then find another article expressing the opposite opinion (but based on research/experience). Well, for me, it would be a no brainer which one I would lean towards.

The RHS do not recommend it on acid loving plants though (so, not on your Rhodo's then)!

I use my garden compost as a mulch and that is a mix of chicken manure and other compostables. But, I do let it rot for two years before I use it and it is mixed in with other stuff as it rots down.

Do you have a label for the pellets that you can refer to and see the nitrogen content and make a judgement call from that, perhaps?

 

Here's a picture of the label. If anybody could interpret I'd be grateful