and lime doesnt hurt the chickens or ducks? what does it do exactly. so helpful! I love it
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, CathrynTherese <cathryntherese@...> wrote:
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> Flo, I never stir mine or my parents up. I water it and add a little soil off and on. Since you have a bum shoulder I would go with the pallet or heavy duty plastic tough stuff garbage cans with the bottom cut out for compost. They are much easier to deal with. If you put the cans on a square of oiled wood, you can use it with a dolly to move the can of compost to where you want it. Just make sure you bungee cord the can to the dolly - learned that one the hard way. Several years go I found 5ft tall, heavy duty, 2 ft wide, plastic cylinders for bagging leaves, for 2.00 each. I bought them all. They are lined up behind the lawn mower barn by the garden at my parents, full, ready to empty this spring. Last summer my mom added a couple of shovel fulls of dirt to the top of each one and planted potatoes and flowers in the top of each one. LOL! The potatoes and flowers grew well too. These can be moved by tilting them, putting my square of scrap wood under
> and using the dolly. Once they are where my mom wants them they can be shoveled out.
> Get on your local free cycle, post for an area you are willing to drive for pick up for old trash cans that are not cracked on the sides. :) Bet there are other things members know about I have not thought of. The secret is watering and adding a shovel or two of dirt off and on. Dirty chicken bedding and droopings need to be barn limed then shoveled up. I use non slip barn lime because it is 2.99 for 50lbs and does not make the dust like ag lime does. Wet dirty bedding stinks if it is not limed.
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