I have read that you can compost dog poop as long as you don’t put it on a garden with edibles (ornamentals only).
Has anyone tried this? Does it stink? What about in the winter?
I have read that you can compost dog poop as long as you don’t put it on a garden with edibles (ornamentals only).
Has anyone tried this? Does it stink? What about in the winter?
Anything organic can compost, since to compost something is to have organisms break it down. The hair will not break down for years, so if you have a dog that has high hair content in the feces, the compost would be full of it. I can’t imagine a high heat compost, so the parasites probably would survive and be in it to reinfect other dogs.
I certainly don’t - however, my compost area is right next to the woods, so I toss the pups poops in the woods - a part that has a large brush pile.
As far as if it is bad or will it degrade, yes it will degrade, but do you want dog poop in your compost? Our compost is black as a black hole on the bottom. I use it for our veggies and other things that we eat. For the roses we use fish heads…so that’s gross in it’s own right, but you shoudl see our roses
I have one of these things which is a pre-made version of what that article describes. It works just fine if you bother to keep up with putting in the enzymes and water…but I slacked on that and it filled up pretty fast. Now I just have a bucket full of poop buried in my yard.
It does NOT stink, though, even without the enzymes. Granted, I put it at the back of my 1/4 acre yard so it’s not near people…but when I go back there and open the lid, I don’t even smell it. There’s no flies around it or anything.
Note that the article sort of mis-represents what you’re doing here. You’re not so much composting your dog poo as putting in a doggie septic system. Because of the holes in the bucket, the broken up poop goes into the ground. It’s not intended for you to retrieve it and put it on your plants.
One of the “tricks” that I’ve taught my dog to do is to shit in the woods. Cuts out the middleman. As far as compositing canine/feline feces, the ick factor is enough to stop me, although human fecal matter is routinely used as fertilizer in some situations.