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 Guinea pig manure - 2005/12/16 09:42 Can I use Guinea pig droppings in my worm bin? I've heard yes about rabbits and they seem about the same.
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 Re:Guinea pig manure - 2005/12/26 22:55 Anyone have any thoughts positive or negative?
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 Re:Guinea pig manure - 2005/12/27 11:38 I do not put any pet manure in my bins, simply because I do many demos and presentations and want people to have their hands in the material. I also use the compost on my edible plants. I just think pet manure would be better handled with "hot" composting. Susan Quinby-Honer
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 Re:Guinea pig manure - 2006/02/24 11:53 jmho what the difference between worm poop and the poop of other animals that are vegitarians? FEED IT TO THE WORMS
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 Re:Guinea pig manure - 2006/02/24 16:07 Well...cows and horses are also vegetarians, but their fresh manure is usually a good source for ecoli. Worm castings have been found, I believe, to innoculte the ingested material and viruses are gone when it has passed through their digestive tract. (That's another reason they are so amazing to me!) I would not put any animal manure, uncomposted, into any of my systems, as it is not hot composting and I would want to put the castings on my edible plants. Susan Quinby-Honer
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 Re:Guinea pig manure - 2006/02/24 16:58 fair enough FEED IT TO THE WORMS
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 Re:Guinea pig manure - 2006/02/24 21:51 With that said, though, after hot-composting, horse / cow / rabbit / gpig poop etc. is good stuff for the wormies to process for use with edible veggies, and prior hot composting is not really required if vermicompost is not used for edibles, yes?
Understand there is no 'wormie-contract' that they'll completely process and neutralize any & all bad stuff, and that 'fresh' poop can hot up a bin to the point of vermicide . Y'all have fun, whatever you're doing.
Gary
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 Re:Guinea pig manure - 2006/02/25 10:31 That sounds right to me, Gary. I know people who have set up bins to compost their dog's waste. This works just fine and they dedicate the composted material to their ornamentals. In Alaska, I have read, they have bins set up along trails,so sled dog waste can be composted instead of finding it's way into their streams. I know people who have their worm bins located directly under their rabbit cages and it makes a self cleaning rabbit cage. I would think if you did something like that and then threw it in a hot composting system, you could use it anywhere. Susan Quinby-Honer
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