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  • From: Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] pine shavings or rice hulls for bedding and thegarden
  • Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:20:10 -0700 (PDT)

I just found a horrible journal article on feeding rice hull based poultry bedding to beef cattle that says that the meat had low pesticide residues - can you say" oh my gosh so horrible".
I cant even believe that anyone would consider feeding poultry bedding to cows. 

Blessings,

Aliza


“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] pine shavings or rice hulls for bedding and thegarden
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 7:35 AM

something weird in my main pen - in the winter it wicks up moisture from the floor and no matter how much material I put on it, it isnt dry for the girls - this is just the main pen though and it could be that there are just too many girls on too little floor space over night in the winter - they sleep in the pen in the winter irreguardless of the weather outside LOL.  In the summer they generally sleep outside.  and I dont have tractor clean out without much difficulty though we did use it last winter once.  I am putting in raised wooden platforms for sleeping this year so hopefull the wet will be concentrated in the shavings/hulls.  Straw is just a pain to clean nanny berries out of and if you dont you get that good manure pack that I cannot clean out in the spring - though it is making great garden bed this year LOL.

Blessings,

Aliza


“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, mpaloff <mpaloff@1starnet.com> wrote:

From: mpaloff <mpaloff@1starnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] pine shavings or rice hulls for bedding and thegarden
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 6:12 AM


I am curious as to the problems you had with straw.  I had a very nice Saanen dairy goat herd for many years, and I found straw to be excellent bedding.  We would clean it out once or twice a year and use the soiled hay for compost in our garden. 
Regards, Minelle Paloff
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 7:04 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] pine shavings or rice hulls for bedding and thegarden

I am deciding what to use for bedding for the goaties this winter as my straw experiment was a fiasco to say the least.  I want to use either rice hulls or shavings.  I garden in heavy clay and rice hulls do great things for heavy clay plus they are easier to handle when cleaning out the pens.  but I am concerned about pesticide residues on the rice hulls.  Any thoughts or suggestions out there?

Aliza


“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net> wrote:

From: Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Southwest Climate Change
To: "Austinperm" <austinperm@yahoogroups.com>, "Living on the Land" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 3:40 AM

Does anyone know of an authoritative and detailed summary of environmental changes expected for Texas and the US Southwest as the result of climate change over the next few decades?  I just read such a summary for the UK in Martin Crawford's new Forest Garden book, and thought such a summary would be interesting and useful.

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.net



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