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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: gavin davies on March 22, 2013, 09:15:09 am

Title: pig poo what to do?
Post by: gavin davies on March 22, 2013, 09:15:09 am
hi everyone sorry in advance if your sat eating your breakfast lunch or dinner

what does everyone do with the poo left behind by the pigs i normally just pick it up and bag it and throw it away

can it be used as compost or not

thanks
Title: Re: pig poo what to do?
Post by: kja on March 22, 2013, 09:20:14 am
there is no better manure than pig dung.

are you not on a allotment ? if so i would have thought they would be queing up for it.
Title: Re: pig poo what to do?
Post by: gavin davies on March 22, 2013, 09:25:02 am
hi thanks for the reply i am on an allotment but there are 5 horses on there also so they all use that would the pig stuff be better than horse
Title: Re: pig poo what to do?
Post by: Hassle on March 22, 2013, 09:33:39 am
Yes much better it comes almost ready composted
Title: Re: pig poo what to do?
Post by: kja on March 22, 2013, 09:40:57 am
way back in time pig muck had a value that would bring in enough money to feed your pigs.

a friend of our gets £15 a 4 x 6 trailer load buyer collects.

we swap ours for straw so we only pay 40p a bale to cover the cost of srting and fuel.
Title: Re: pig poo what to do?
Post by: HappyHippy on March 22, 2013, 10:58:29 am
Did anyone watch the Kevin McLeod serier 'Man made home' on ch 4 about his 'shed' in the woods ? To call it a shed doesn't do it justice IMHO - but that's what he said  ;)
It was a great series covering loads of different handmade/repurposed/recycled items, he made a bio-gas digester which produced methane using poo  :o Initially it was dog poo that sparked the idea and his plan was to use a composting toilet with a couple of pipes and an expansion tank - on the programme it worked well (so well both Bruce and I were watching very closely  :D) Apparently poo from carnivores is best (they ended up getting some lion dung from Longleat to start the whole thing off) because of the way it rots and releases gas, but I've been :thinking: and wonder if that might be another way to use up the pig poo ?
Sorry, just thinking out loud really  ;D