Coffee anyone ?

[Mini Horses]

Compost -- the herbicides in a lot of hay DOES create problems in you veg garden. Something no one thought of or considered in years past. Sometimes because it wasn't even thought to be a problem -- you don't know what's been used & how long it lasted. That is until "someone" tested after the disaster had happened. So, that part isn't overthinking. IMO it's more of a save your butt confession.

Prob the dewormer meds aren't such an issue, after all it is people meds. Even wheat straw is a concern -- it's sprayed to kill green before harvest now. Didn't have all this when it was "a little house on the prairie".

 

[CLSranch]

that would be considered green) a week. Basically 3+ "green bins". That would overflow a 3x3x3 every week.

Letting it set longer and it getting hotter helps with that.

Are they making it more complicated than it should be??

Yep,

Another option that I'm looking into is a small manure spreader. Put what you want for the garden in your compost pile, put the rest in the spreader that'll pull behind a 4-wheeler/atv and drive the pasture. Spread thin you don't really have to worry about it composting 1st. From where I tie the horses and the pen, I could just drive it around after it gets full. Shavings reduce the affects of strong nitrogen and provide the other nutrients soil needs. The "horse pen" is currently closed from being so muddy and full of what the other pasture would love to have on it. The wheel barrow effect isn't enough and it's a lot to spread it. 1st I need to fix the 4-wheeler and other costly things before buying a spreader.
I also like the idea of it spread thin across low grazed areas to provide it "shade" in the summer which half of the summer pasture needs or cut down to 2 hours of grazing a day all year.

 

[Alaskan]

All of our poo, with bedding etc. I toss down the hill. Literally. Suuuuper easy to do.

Actually... kids let it pile up at the edge right now... planning on pushing it down with the skid steer.

I am sure, if I wanted, and bothered to look... that it had made some great compost...

 

[Alaskan]

Oh... I visited this one cattle ranch, they had an irrigation system hooked up to a manure pit. They finished a few cattle on site, on concrete flooring that they hosed down into the manure pit.

All of their front pastures were watered from that pit. WOW!!! GREEN!!

 

[rachels.haven]

We're getting soaked, big time. We needed it, but not all at once!
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We can be found under the "MD". It sprinkled all day today. Yay!

 

[Blue Sky]

Extra! Extra! One of the RackaX ewe lambs is shedding fleece! Could hair Rackas be easier than I thought? (Still need more Racka genes). Oh and

 

[Mini Horses]

Rains of some degree a few more days up & off to work. So tired last night I slept like a log!!

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[Baymule]

I’ve been on a dead run the past 5 days. Went to Yantis yesterday to see @Ridgetop and go on a pasture walk 4 miles from their house. Up at 4 AM yesterday, got back at 7PM. Was tired. Frank Egan The Old Ram Australia, sent me a message at 1:57 this morning, gotta love the time difference. I posted the time here, he won’t read it, but I didn’t post it on what he wanted me to post. I posted for him on his journal plus started a new thread in the pasture forum.

It’s 7:43 and I’m still lolling about is a relaxed state. Need to fix myself some breakfast, set out meat to thaw for dinner. Thinking about hitching my flatbed, loading tractor and going to son’s house and mow. It’s shaggy and looks bad. The fun never stops.

 

[CLSranch]

kids let it pile up at the edge right now... planning on pushing it down with the skid steer.

I could use a skid steer for a day or 2 just scraping pins. Or replace the clutch in the tractor.

Oh... I visited this one cattle ranch, they had an irrigation system hooked up to a manure pit. They finished a few cattle on site, on concrete flooring that they hosed down into the manure pit.

All of their front pastures were watered from that pit. WOW!!! GREEN!!

I've worked on several ethanol plants near hog farms that did that. When they sprayed fertilizer it was thousands of acres at a time and it smelled just like you'd think. Sometimes it was all the way around us so it didn't matter what direction the wind blew.

 

[Weldman]

ATTENTION:
I am out of order until further notice.
My stupid people filter needs cleaning & my give a damn batteries are depleted.​