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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 05 9:17 pm Post subject:
Don't most responsible pet owners keep their dogs wormed nowadays?

mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 05 10:21 pm Post subject:
what is wrong with 'collecting' doggy rear end stuff ie poo.........and flushing it down toilet?

Maranne

Joined: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 16
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 05 11:22 pm Post subject:

mrsnesbitt wrote:

what is wrong with 'collecting' doggy rear end stuff ie poo.........and flushing it down toilet?

Nothing "wrong" with it apart from the principle of the "Closed loop system" ie. everything is reused within the food production process.

Don't mean to sound evangelical but I've just been reading the Late sainted John Seymour

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
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Location: Nottingham

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 05 6:59 am Post subject:
Isn't it toxoplasmosis which you can get from cat poo - not good for pregnant women - can cause birth abnormalities...?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 05 7:30 am Post subject:

Read about a special type of plastic composter a while ago that recoked it could cope with cooked food, bones and pet litter (think it was called a green cone- we did briefly discuss em here)- I think the idea was it just filtered the compost down into the soil eventually, so it was the sort of thing you'd install in the orchard rather than producing compost for the veg plot. I wouldn't have thought animal waste compost would be a problem for trees would it?

ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 05 9:11 am Post subject:

hils wrote:

Isn't it toxoplasmosis which you can get from cat poo - not good for pregnant women - can cause birth abnormalities...?

yes that's it, you can also get it from sheep but we used sheep poo for making fertiliser liquid with no ill effects though i wasn't pregnant at the same time.

someone mentioned using human dung which is pretty much the point of an compost toilet. as long as you aren't carrying live polio vaccines or eating things you shouldn't be you should be fine using human dung. human urine is great for the composter and once again can be used in liquid fertiliser (watch out though, this stuff stinks to high heaven

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cede

Joined: 25 Mar 2005
Posts: 62
Location: surrey

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 05 6:28 pm Post subject:
my mum has always said that when she was little that they put human stuff on the asparagus beds !

Haddock

Joined: 24 Apr 2005
Posts: 81
Location: Marburg, Germany

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 05 11:57 am Post subject:
Not sure if anyones seen this site (I'm new here) called the Humanure Handbook. It covers human waste in a big way and explains how to compost it (explains hot composting to kill parasites), and the errors in modern sewerage systems https://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html

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