The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: green grass on June 06, 2012, 07:42:47 pm
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Hi,does anyone know if you can use guinea pig poo on the veg patch,its a mixture of dropings wood shavings and hay.Or can it go on the compost heap.Cheers......
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Woodshavings take ages to compost. So that's what I do with mine (mine are from chooks), put them on the compost for a year or so.
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When I had guinea pigs the waste went into the compost. It does take a while to rot, just make sure there's no dry food grains/pellets in it.
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I bed mine (buns not GP's) on hemp bedding or elephant grass as it composts soooooo much quicker ;)
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I bed mine (buns not GP's) on hemp bedding or elephant grass as it composts soooooo much quicker (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Yes - I am planning to move to hemp once we have used up all the shavings. But since my compost cycle is two years anyway I haven't had much trouble with compsoting the shavings so far - but we don't have excessive amounts of it in the compost compared to everything else that goes onto it.
At the moment I am working my way through an enormous mouldy bale of hayage which is going to take me all year to layer with suitable "other" stuff :D