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   Message 39,488 of 40,484   
   Pavel314 to Frank   
   Re: Sheep Manure   
   18 May 21 19:14:31   
   
   From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 6:59:20 PM UTC-4, Frank wrote:   
   > On 5/16/2021 8:08 PM, 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    
   > >   
   > Years ago there was an organic farmer that posted here and his big    
   > concern about using horse manure is that it might be contaminated with    
   > strong pesticides used to keep flies down in stables.   
      
   We don't use pesticides in the sheep barn.   
      
   Paul   
      
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