Hi Bill - Sorry to be slow responding, but I've been traveling.
I would avoid adding the fungi growing in animal droppings into a finished
compost pile. There is too great a possibility of adding pathogens along with
the animal droppings. It is amazing what dogs and cats will eat (stomach
churns with the thought), and that material passes out in the fecal material. The
organisms that thus grow from that material can be less than desirable.
Different case if you have a starting compost pile. If you are yet to reach
high temperature, then addition of VERY MINOR AMOUNTS of animal droppings is
possible. But you must make sure that temperature is reached, or you'll be
setting yourself up for problems. Cats and dogs can carry helminths, or little
worms, that are happy to parasitize you if you aren't careful. So, if you add
animal manure to the pile, you have to make sure that if reaches temperature
long enough and to enough to kill the parasites, or all parts of that material
are visited and either touched or are ingested by earthworms.
OK?
Elaine
Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 16:05:34 EST
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