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Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 20:08
| Anyone have any thoughts about composting goose poop? My husband had the bright idea of throwing it on the compost as a good source of nitrogen. And hey, it's free and in plentiful supply at the pond near our town hall. In fact, I told him if I started picking it up to compost I'd be made town citizen of the year. |
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- Posted by fabaceae_native z6 NM (My Page) on Wed, Nov 7, 12 at 15:40
| I think that's a great idea, and mutually beneficial too! Bird droppings are of course the best of all the manures. I hope they don't use too many nasty chemicals on the grass where the geese feed, but it couldn't be any worse than composting any conventionally grown fruit or vegetable. |
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| "Goose poop" is about the same as any other poultry manure even though most research on poultry manure is limited to chiken manure. Picking that up from around that pond will also help limit the pollution that manure would cause in the pond as well as the pollution from simply laying on the grass around that pond where people might step in it. It is a resource waiting for someone to use. |
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- Posted by toxcrusadr 5 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 10:34
| Goose poop can have quite a variety of microbes (like many other fresh manures) so make sure you compost it aerobically for several months, wash after handling, and don't eat it. :-] |
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| Gee, this got me thinking. Why restrict myself to goose poop? I won't use dog doo, but boy do we have a lot of deer around here, and deer droppings. Finally they can do something useful--heaven knows they've done enough damage. BTW, will the manure cause the compost pile to heat up? Right now I'm filling the bin with food scraps and dried leaves. |
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| The primary reason most of us do not utilize the manures produced by wildlife is that collecting it is much too time consuming. If I had nothing more to do I could probably wonder around and collect the wild turkey manure from the yard but since it is so widely scattered that might take hours. |
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