The dung beetles had been mia all winter and i had greatly missed them as it meant there was dog poop everywhere. For all you people pooper scoopering your yards in the city, let me introduce you to our new best friends. These guys can clear a whole field of cow dung in one day …
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Chicken Poop Fertilizer
My friend and neighbor has a pretty extensive garden with an impressive deer fence. Im pretty sure its bigger than my one room house. She expressed some interest in utilizing some of the chicken poop as fertilizer. Ive done this before. A little goes a long way and it works great for flowering plants. I …
The Dung Beetles are back
I kept trying to examine Sili and Cashew’s turds while they were sick so i could gage what state of recovery they were in and the turds were just disappearing…all of them. it appeared that the dogs were going days without pooping. I knew this was not the case for what goes in must come …
Another Day on the Homestead
A fairly healthy buck left me a dump in the shape of a heart. 🙂
The Unidentified Turd
I think that this is probably raccoon poop. I could be wrong but that’s my best guess.
Investigating the Smell
One day i began to notice a smell wafting from the mattress in the house. At first i thought it must just be old and full of dead skin cells and sweat. However, as time went on i realized the comforter smelled worse than all the rest of the bedding. The longer the smell persisted, …
The Disappearing Poo
I have noticed for a while now that Cashew is no longer eating her turds. She poops and runs off rather than turning and eating it. I was thrilled by this and wanted her to keep it up so i didn’t call any attention to the change and pretended i didn’t notice. I expected that …
Poopapalooza
Cashew was good at a great many things. None of them had anything to do with living indoors. She was good at all things ranching; domestication, not so much. One of the things she would do that disqualified her from ever being left with a pet sitter in my absence was something i dubbed poopapalooza. …