- Location
- cornwall
Can this be done or do you use too much sawdust making it too expensive or does it just not work? If would be for youngstock, not milkers
Sawdust instead of straw for loose yards?
- Thread starter jerseycowsman
- Start date
- Location
- South wales
Yes you can use it just stir it up a few times with the muckgrab to get a bit more out of it before adding another layer
- Location
- cornwall
How often would you top it up? Of just put in 6 inches to start with?
ollie989898
Member
Seen it done on before with ground up wood. Works very very well. So absorbent and sticks to the dung. Stir around with grab once a week or so.
- Location
- Shropshire
You have to watch where you get it we used to do it but ended up full off bits of glass and plastic in the end so stopped but if you can get it clean it’s a great product
ollie989898
Member
No, it's only as clean as the saw dust and source material itself but provided no nails/glass then you are good to go. Will break down slowly with dung added.
Homesy
Member
- Location
- North West Devon
Look up compost pack barn on youtube.
- Location
- South Molton
Any material that is breaking down uses nitrogen in that process.
That nitrogen is released longer term but is a short term user of avaliable N.
As @ollie989898 says it will break down but very very slowly due to its density and hardness.
I would avoid as much as possible
- Location
- Shropshire
Would it not depend where it was I would imagine into slurry would break down faster than piled with box muck
- Location
- South Molton
Anaerobic v aerobic.
As long as plenty of air is available, aerobic decomposers work faster and more efficiently than their anaerobic counterparts.
- Location
- Ceredigion
It needs to be dry , I tried fresh green sawdust years ago and was hoples
- Location
- South Molton
It was wet before you started, a breeding ground for bacteria, and zero absorbency.
Woodchip corals worked,sort of, because it created a drained surfaced. No cover and the rain washed the poo through
- Location
- Ceredigion
ollie989898
Member
Be extremely careful using sawdust or similar materials that arrive damp or wet. The moulds/fungi that will thrive in that will produce spores that are evil if you breathe them in. Aspergillosis is no laughing matter.