My manure is cooler than your manure

[levdrakon]

Oh sure, you're an avid gardener. Prolly got some horse dooky to till into your garden, huh?

My wifey's doing an internship at a local zoo. Being the lowly peon, she gets the shit duty. Literally. I jokingly told her to bring some of that shit home. She said, "I don't think they'd let me." She asked anyway and it turns out they don't care that much about their shit.

So, now I'm tilling camel & zebra dung into my garden. Who knows what other exotic poop the wife's going to bring home and surprise me with.

Beat that, Doper gardeners.

[PerditaX]

I'm not a gardener, but I do have a rabbit. I have a friend who's an organic gardener and she always wants me to bring in the contents of the bun's litterbox. She says that rabbit manure is very nitrogen-rich and can be put on gardens without composting. Her organic-gardening magazines actually encourage their readers to make friends with rabbit-owners.

One year, I brought in a paper bag of bunny-droppings and left it on her desk. Turns out it was her birthday. People were asking what she got for presents, and her reply was "Well, Perditax gave me a bag of shit!" :eek:

How cool is it that I give someone shit and she thanks me for it?! :D

[Gala Matrix Fire]

Sweet! I envy you, in a really weird way that doesn't bear thinking about.

[The Them]

levdragon, little do you know...
The Zoo here (St. Louis) does, or used to, sell "ZooDoo" for some not-unreasonable markup as a fundraiser! And being a public entity, they always need a few extra bucks, so some clever individual came up with...

[Helena]

My mom once bought some chicken manure to put on the garden. The dog ate it.

[phil417]

I've a question. How bout rat droppings? When she married & moved out, my daughter left six male rats with me. The rats are gone, & I'll clean out their cage next weekend. I was just going to put the droppings-corn-cob-bedding mess out by the curb. Is it safe to spread onto the garden? Thanks.

Love, Phil

[singular1]

The Seattle Zoo sells elephant dook. Since I'm hopefully buying a house within the next couple months (where's that crossed-finger smiley?), I'll look into that for the garden.
PerditaX , rabbit dook is excellent fertilizer! Mr. singular had a big wooden rabbit hutch with a screened-bottom, and when we got rid of the rabbits and the hutch, the grass that grew in that patch was much thicker and greener and grew faster than the rest of the lawn. You could probably sell that stuff!

[twickster]

I've a question. How bout rat droppings? When she married & moved out, my daughter left six male rats with me. The rats are gone, & I'll clean out their cage next weekend. I was just going to put the droppings-corn-cob-bedding mess out by the curb. Is it safe to spread onto the garden? Thanks.

Love, Phil

Yes. Or into your compost pile, if you have one.

Any poop from any herbivore is fine, and most poop from most omnivores (chickens eat bugs) is fine. No poop from any carnivore (dogs, cats) should be used as manure.

[Dung Beetle]

So, now I'm tilling camel & zebra dung into my garden. Who knows what other exotic poop the wife's going to bring home and surprise me with.


I'm coming over.

[Savannah]

I'm coming over.

Bwah!

[Quartz]

I'm told that tiger and lion dung is very much in demand. Apparently foxes and cats scent the larger presence and vacate the area.

[Wile E]

Your manure is cooler? Isn't manure by nature, warm?

[AskNott]

When my wife was a little girl, her parents bought a house. One day my future MIL came home to find that my future FIL had spread chicken manure all over the lawn. After the rave-up, she didn't speak to him for weeks.

Chemically, it makes sense, sorta. Chicken dung is so high in nitrogen that it will kill some plants. Lawn grasses are nitrogen junkies, and they love it. The stuff is very aromatic, to put it mildly. All their neighbors knew right away, these new folks had the crayzeee.

[Voyager]

The stuff I used was just horse poop, but it was thoroughbred horse poop. From a top barn. From horses that competed against Joe Montana's horses. So if you are saying that your zebra poop is better than the All-Star former quarterback of the SF Giants, I will have to ask you to step outside.

[Dung Beetle]

So if you are saying that your zebra poop is better than the All-Star former quarterback of the SF Giants, I will have to ask you to step outside.
Carefully.

[lieu]

From a top barn. From horses that competed against Joe Montana's horses. So if you are saying that your zebra poop is better than the All-Star former quarterback of the SF Giants, I will have to ask you to step outside.I believe you meant to say the SF 49'ers. But yes, the former quarterback's was better than their former cornerback's... that was one runny lot.

[Madd Maxx]

So if you are saying that your zebra poop is better than the All-Star former quarterback of the SF Giants, I will have to ask you to step outside.

You do, of course, mean the San Francisco 49er's. ;)

[JThunder]

Horse hockey.

[Ellen Cherry]

Gah, another affliction I have to deal with: poop envy. :p

[Encinitas]

Well poop!

[amarinth]

The Seattle Zoo sells elephant dook. Since I'm hopefully buying a house within the next couple months (where's that crossed-finger smiley?), I'll look into that for the garden.info on the Woodland Park Zoo's ZooDoo (http://www.zoo.org/zoo_info/zoodoo.html). Apparently they sell small amounts all year long, and have a bi-annual "Fecal Fest" where they sell, well, shitloads.

[jayjay]

Horse hockey.

Not hockey, football. Weren't you reading the posts just above yours?

[JThunder]

Oh, crap.

[Voyager]

You do, of course, mean the San Francisco 49er's. ;)
Sorry. In my family we never have forgiven the Giants for leaving New York. :)

[Voyager]

That just goes to show. I've finally managed to hijack a thread, and it's a thread full of shit.

But it's really great shit.

[levdrakon]

Thread shitting apparently welcome here.

[Jackmannii]

A cautionary word to exotic dung enthusiasts:

It's not a great idea to till the fresh stuff into your garden, even if you don't mind personal contact with it and you don't have a dog that'll roll in it.*

Fresh manure can burn plants. Much better to compost it first.


I don't think rat shit qualifies as coming from an "herbivore". At least, based on what I remember of the movie Ben.


*Rolling in exotic poop is nirvana for your average canine.

[Jackmannii]

A cautionary word to exotic dung enthusiasts:

It's not a great idea to till the fresh stuff into your garden, even if you don't mind personal contact with it and you don't have a dog that'll roll in it.*

Fresh manure can burn plants. Much better to compost it first.


I don't think rat shit qualifies as coming from an "herbivore". At least, based on what I remember of the movie Ben.


*Rolling in exotic poop is nirvana for your average canine.

[Yllaria]

Aww. There used to be dotcom websites for both zoodoo and zoopoo, both of which marketed zoo manure materials. Sad that the market could not bear it.

I forget which one focused on dried zoo manure pressed into small garden statuettes. Plonk them in the garden and they were supposed to release nutrients and eventually erode away. Some were marketed as appropriate for business appreciation gifts. Instead of giving your employees BS certificates, you could give them ZS statuettes.

Now that I no longer have the ability to conjure zoo poo through the forces of the internet, I must envy levdrakon. Grow on, levdrakon, grow on.

[Baker]

A circus went through town once, and there was a quote from the circus manager on the news and in the newspaper.

"Gardeners are welcome to come and collect the dung from our animals. They'll make more!"

[Voyager]

A cautionary word to exotic dung enthusiasts:

It's not a great idea to till the fresh stuff into your garden, even if you don't mind personal contact with it and you don't have a dog that'll roll in it.*

Fresh manure can burn plants. Much better to compost it first.

Most barns have quite large manure piles, the middle of which is nicely composted, though I usually left it in bags for a while to compost some more, and would work it into the garden after cleaning it up in October.

My canine used to love to roll in horrible things he found in the school field where he walks, but discovered that this inevitably led to showers with the garden hose outside, something he is not fond of.

[levdrakon]

I'm coming over.Please state your intentions more clearly sir! (Ma'am?)
So if you are saying that your zebra poop is better than the All-Star former quarterback of the SF Giants, I will have to ask you to step outside.I fear I must request Dung Beetle do the same.

[Chimera]

I bow before your superior shit.

[Wile E]

info on the Woodland Park Zoo's ZooDoo (http://www.zoo.org/zoo_info/zoodoo.html). Apparently they sell small amounts all year long, and have a bi-annual "Fecal Fest" where they sell, well, shitloads.

Please tell me that they do not advertise this big sale as a "poop blowout"? This is not a term we like to hear at the veterinary hospital.

[lizardling]

Please tell me that they do not advertise this big sale as a "poop blowout"? This is not a term we like to hear at the veterinary hospital.

Ewwww. I take it that it means the same thing as "explosive cat" means to me. :eek:

[levdrakon]

Please tell me that they do not advertise this big sale as a "poop blowout"? This is not a term we like to hear at the veterinary hospital.Yes, but who could resist a "Fecal Fest?"