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Penny Dyke
True Blue Farmgirl
93 Posts
Penny
East Palestine
Ohio
USA
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 Posted - May 19 2011 : 05:41:54 AM
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Here is how I make some extra cash ,I have manure that I let compost and then I sift it and bag it into 50lb feed sacks that I recycle and sell it by the bag 5.00 each. people love it,we call it black gold I rotate my piles so I have new batch every spring you cant even tell it was manure.I have return customers every year.
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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
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Penny Dyke
True Blue Farmgirl
93 Posts
Penny
East Palestine
Ohio
USA
93 Posts |
Posted - May 21 2011 : 05:03:06 AM
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| Isn't great one of my customers gave me an idea she takes the whole bag leaves it tyed shut lays it on its side cuts a hole on top and plants here squash and pumpkins right in the bag.they grow like crazy.she did it that way because she did'nt have a flat area to plant just a hill side. |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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Bensgrandma
True Blue Farmgirl
227 Posts
Alexis
White Oak
PA
USA
227 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 10:42:38 AM
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Ive seen it for sale on ebay. People are selling manure tea bags and bags of manure for the garden. There was even a canning jar full of it last year as a gag gift with a tag that said something like "Since you are full of it...." and "not for human consumption."
We used to just give ours away. When I visited the zoo in Detroit I bought a molded hippo but made out of hippo manure. It was for your plants.
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osagegypsy
True Blue Farmgirl
73 Posts
Marsha
Hominy
OK
USA
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Posted - Jun 22 2011 : 2:10:08 PM
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Hey Penny, we have lots of that stuff laying around too. What do you have to do to bag it?
"Though she never shook the stars from their appointed courses; she loved good men and rode good horses." unk. |
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Hope Floats
True Blue Farmgirl
69 Posts
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 22 2011 : 10:20:31 PM
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| Penny, what type of manure are you using? My daughter started a new rabbit project last year and we just stating using the rabbit manure on our melons. We have horses, beef and swine and have used all three manures, but decided to test out the rabbit manure on the melons and they're doing great. She thinks she might even try making rabbit tea to feed her giant pumpkins too. |
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Penny Dyke
True Blue Farmgirl
93 Posts
Penny
East Palestine
Ohio
USA
93 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 05:42:54 AM
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Marsha & Hope Floats
the manure I sell is well composted it looks like the potting soil you would buy in the store, I rotate my piles, the one I,m using now is 5 years old,I have a screen I sift it through then I bag it in 50lb feed sacks, I get $5.00 a bag ,the manure is a mixture of horse ,pig ,sheep, goat,chicken,rabbits plus kitchen scraps no meat.altough the rabbit you can put directly on your garden or flowers. |
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