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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Manure & worming
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:56:05 -0600


Joan,
I don't know about whether the manure would be ok or not - I think
regulations are changing about what kind of manures we can use for organics,
but didn't I read about compost breaking down such things? Yours is rotted
and then composted, so I would think it would have a longer time to break
down. You could try a sample - put some worms in a moist box of your rotted
composted manure and see what happens. Also, is it possible to have it
sampled for such things?

You could also, for the future, switch over to diatamaceous earth for
worming, which is not poisonous, but works. I use it for my goats. It is
also very inexpensive.

Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: Joan Vibert <joan AT windwalker-farm.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: Manure & worming


> This morning our vet was out to check one of our horses and wormed all
three
> of them, which we haven't done for a while now. I have always worried
about
> the wormer since I use the manure, eventually in the gardens and had heard
> that the wormer will stay in the manure and kill the garden worms. True?
> My husband said it was a long-acting wormer - which negated the ability to
> turn them back out and keep them away from the good manure piles while the
> wormer moves through them. We dry lot these horses every spring due to
> foundering and therefore have decent year-old manure that's already done
> some good composting with hay mixed in. Then I take that manure and will
> usually put it on the compost pile - so it sits another year - but this
year
> I was going to try some application of the old composted manure on some of
> the tomato beds and till it in. Any input on this would be appreciated.
>
> joan
> windwalker farm
> ottawa, kansas
>
>
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  • Re: Manure & worming, Joan Vibert, 03/08/2001
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    • Re: Manure & worming, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/08/2001

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