Poo fired power stations

[Penny Less]

Having just climbed the north face of the muck heap, I have been pondering on alternative uses for horse poo. We have paid a farmer to take it and spread it on his fields in the past, but no one seems to want it now. In the olden days when my dad had a milk round with a horse and cart, people used to stand in their front rooms with a shovel waiting for the horse to do one so they could fight over it to put it on their roses!

So alternatives, poo fuelled cars - does horse poo produce methane like cow poo ?
poo sculptures at posh events - like ice sculptures ?
horse poo jewellery
poo bath and massage
hire out muck heap as outward bound venue for rock climbing practice
send it to the Tate Modern and win the Turner prize

any ideas !!

 

[JenHunt]

i know that if you have a wood burning stove or similar that you can make the much heap into bricks, dry them and burn them!

or you can turn the muck heap into a wormery - the worms reduce the size of the muck heap by 80% and what's left is proper compost not half rotted muck heap (we do this and rather than 5ton, we took out less than 1 ton this year)

or contact local garden centres to see if they'd like it?

 

[smossy]

i know that if you have a wood burning stove or similar that you can make the much heap into bricks, dry them and burn them!

or you can turn the muck heap into a wormery - the worms reduce the size of the muck heap by 80% and what's left is proper compost not half rotted muck heap (we do this and rather than 5ton, we took out less than 1 ton this year)

or contact local garden centres to see if they'd like it?

cool idea where do you get worms from and any special way of doing it,or just chuck um in....
Poo worms chickens will love them and then produce more poooooooooooooo lol

 

[Penny Less]

A wormery, yesssss, but where would you get the worms, we would need a heck of a lot ! They would be the size of boa constrictors after a couple of weeks !!

 

[JenHunt]

We got 5kg of worms (think they're tiger worms, look like little bright red earthworms) from an online place (can't remember the name now, but sure there's plenty out there if you google them!). they came in a box with a bit of composty stuff.

we started with an almost empty muckheap, and put the muck evenly over the top of the heap each day. It never looks like very much is going on, but you don't have to rake into it far to see the worms working away.Your site needs to be fairly well drained, but just on soil is fine, no need for concrete base.

our heap in enclosed in an old sheep fold, and we have a green netting over the top to stop all the birds eating the worms. But having said that, the hens don't really bother so we may just be being a bit over protective.

The worms multiply to cope with the amount of muck you're supplying, and when you come to empty the heap you take off the tope 6 inches or so that has most of the worms in it and keep that to start the new heap.