I probably wasn't clear in my earlier post about what we're doing with our wheat litter: Jon built a separate compost wire bin, which is located outside of the garden and near the property's former chicken coop. The idea is to compost the bird seed and news/cage paper, as well as the cat waste out there, for use with the land's non-edible plants. I hadn't thought about cooking the stuff after it breaks down in the bin; seems a little farther than we need to go. But we don't live in the city and have several acres at our disposal (no pun . . . )
Bethany James Hogg wrote: > My imagination is working on this problem now. > > I like the idea of composting cat waste/litter. We have three cats > and now we are using litters that are not clay. Still we are throwing > it in the trash. I have heard about not being able to compost cat > waste in regular compost bins because it doesn't heat up enough to > kill the parasites. I hadn't thought about making a separate cat > waste compost and using it outside of the vegetable garden. > > Does this seem like a plausible idea, or just wacky. Segregate the > cat waste into its own compost pile. WHen it has baked down naturally > could it be cooked more say in a turkey roast tray on a covered > outside grill. Make it hot enough to kill the bad stuff. I forgot > what the temperature needs to be, something like 150 degrees... Is > this likely to work? > > On another pet waste topic, we also have a dog. Last autumn I bought > a Doggie Dooley, which is a plastic pail that works like a septic > tank. I dug a hole, put the thing in and fill it with water and a > plumbing/septic system enzyme. The dog waste is supposed to break > down and the water overflows the pail and goes in the hole where is > absorbs into the ground. We filled it before winter, now it is frozen > "something." It is supposed to work at temperatures above 40 degrees. > > Doogie Dooley > http://www.amazon.com/Dooley-2000-Septic-Tank-Style-Pet-Waste- > Disposal/dp/B0002DI34A/ref=pd_sbs_k_njs_title_5 > > The Doggie Dooley website is terrible. So I linked to Amazon > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
