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bighouse
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Bedding - 2008/04/17 20:23 Hello everyone!

I have been reading posts on here for nearly 1 year and gained a lot of knowledge. My primary venture is the vermiculture side for bait sales. My question is can I use a screened manure compost for bedding? I found a farm near my home and below is the contents of the manure compost.

Compost consists of:
Grass, Weeds and Non-Woody, Garden Prunings
Spent Flowers, Bouquets
Farm Animal Manures (cow, horse, chicken, sheep)
Fruit and Vegetable Garden Scraps
A Sprinkling of Blood Meal or Cottonseed Meal

Our Manure Test Results:

Nitrogen 1.30%

Phosphorus .35%

Potassium 1.19%

Calcium 2.42%

Magnesium .48%

Boron (ppm) 50

Zinc (ppm) 109

Manganese (ppm) 263

Copper (ppm) 22

Iron (ppm) 3000

Aluminum (ppm) 3415

Sodium (ppm) .11

PH 8.2

Soluble Salts mmhos 5.88

A&L Great Lakes Laboratories, Inc. tested our compost for herbicides and insecticides. No detectable levels of any pesticide was found

My main question is can I use this as my primary bedding? Below is the website of the farm that carries this compost for general reading.
http://www.tuthillfarms.com

Thank you
Dave

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Kyle
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Re:Bedding - 2008/04/17 21:46 Cool website of the farm.

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WFike

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Re:Bedding - 2008/04/17 22:32 Only problem I see is you need to make sure it doesn't heat up when water is added.

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Swimmus
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Re:Bedding - 2008/04/19 17:45 WFike wrote:
Only problem I see is you need to make sure it doesn't heat up when water is added.

Plus, it has a rather high PH and with Chicken poop, salt content can build up in the bedding and eventually be very unkind to the worms. www.wormcrusader.com

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bighouse
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Re:Bedding - 2008/04/22 20:23 Thanks for the insight. Since you mentioned the high PH, I didn't notice that. If I was to pick up some non composted horse manure, what is the process of aging, etc before I can use it as bedding. I will mix the manure 50% with a peat moss I suppose.

Thanks again

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