From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 8:14:42 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:   
   > Pavel314 wrote:    
   > > We're having the sheep shorn in a couple of weeks so we started cleaning   
   out the manure that accumulated in the sheep barn over the winter. I put eight   
   five-gallon buckets in the lawn tractor trailer then shovel the manure into   
   the trailer. Most ends    
   up in the buckets but we get about a ninth full bucket from the loose stuff   
   that falls between the buckets. We've gotten two loads out and up to the   
   garden so far, roughly 18 buckets worth or 90 gallons of dry, loose manure.   
   > sounds good to me. :)    
   >    
   > herbivore poo is prime plant food, but prime because either dung    
   > beetles or worms or other creatures work on breaking it down further.    
   >    
   > have you ever considered a worm farm? :)    
   >    
   >    
   > songbird   
      
   I think that we have an unintentional worm farm out in the garden after many   
   years of sheep manure and compost additions. Whenever I go out to work in the   
   garden, the robins hang around, knowing that I'm going to turn up a bunch of   
   worms for them.   
      
   Paul   
      
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