[suziequeue]

Yes - poo picking is great!!.

Pig poo goes onto the compost heap.

Sheep poo goes into a teabag with nettles for liquid manure.

Dog poo goes into the dog poo wormery

Sadly I haven't yet convinced hubby about a composting loo for our poo

Nothing wasted :-)

[OhLaLa]

..........and also - sheep poo goes into a teabag with nettles for liquid manure.

...into a teabag........... for liquid manure.......phew, for a moment there.......

 

[OhLaLa]

Blimey you lot should get out more,poo picking no way.

Go out..... hmmmm vaguely remember what that means.....   

[Berkshire Boy]

I don't waste mine just don't go round picking it up. I leave it and when the pigs are moved to another pen I harrow and sow stuble turnip and forage rape,boy does it grow well.First time i did it last year even surprised the "real" farmers.

[Olly398]

Sadly I haven't yet convinced hubby about a composting loo for our poo

Nothing wasted :-)

Get him to read the incomparable John Seymour!

Now the human being is a very strange beast with capabilities good and bad 
Not frightened of nature, no not in the least our follies are often quite mad
The toilet that flushes fills our souls with glee
A brainwave by Thomas Crapper
Mixes poo with clean water and pours out to sea
As if the dirt did not matter.
 
Out of sight, out of mind, muck shoots down the pipes
An incredible fabric of magic
Squandering food for soil as the water we spoil
Its a tale that is terribly tragic.
 
But all is not lost for at a marginal cost
Another solution comes easy
The composting loo; yes that's our riposte
And your tummy need not feel too queasy.
 
The vent goes up high, sending gas to the skies
And the lid fits snug so no entry to flies
Two years it will take, our compost to make
And our river's not sorry the flush to forsake.
 
No water, no tricks its all built with bricks. The poo and kitchen waste too
All go together making food for the soil in our marvelous Thunderbox loo

But does anyone on here have a "Thunderbox" loo?

[Greenerlife]

That's great Olly398!

My OH is keen on one, but I have enough other things to occupy him with before we get one!  It does remind me though of paddling down the Grand Canyon years ago.  because of the fragility of the ecosystem down in the canyon we had to take out EVERYTHING.  Peeing was allowed in the water but pooing was done into old Ammo boxes which were packed up every morning and taken with us in the boats!  They were oblong and metal, which led to their being termed "groovers" as they left impressions!   

[Hilarysmum]

As is common here we have a fosse septic.  Loo works as normal the fosse contains lots of little digesting bacteria, eventually the poo is broken down to a nice layer of sediment, the clean water (filtered by a reed bed and sand) returns to the stream.  Until recently once in forever, a local farmer would pump out the sediment for shoving on his fields.  Now though it has to be pumpled out every 4 years regardless of how little is in the tank, and the sediment treated before being shoved on the fields.  Still have to use clean drinkable water to flush the loo though.

[SallyintNorth]

The toilet that flushes fills our souls with glee
A brainwave by Thomas Crapper
Mixes poo with clean water and pours out to sea
As if the dirt did not matter.


But does anyone on here have a "Thunderbox" loo?

I worked with a lady whose surname was Crapper, and sure enough she was a great-granddaughter (may have been more than one great, can't now remember.) 

I have used a lot of different composting loos, none of them have smelled any worse than the conventional type - in many cases they smell sweeter.  I was told that the secret is putting enough sawdust down to keep the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio right.

[Sylvia]

My neighbour has built a wonderful composting lav. The actual house is made of hay bales and looks like an African mud hut without the mud (mind you, he has also built a very impressive eco-house too )
As regards pig poo, I do pick up if my back allows otherwise the dogs do