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    How Much Chicken Poop Is Too Much?

    I found this recently: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AA205 Basically, an acre of vegetable gardening can take 2-5 tons of layer manure.
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    Advice on converting a chicken tractor into a greenhouse?

    One of the chicken tractors DH built turned out to be way to heavy to move without causing bodily harm so he stripped off the exterior and I now have a very heavy duty 4x8 A-frame with a "floor" about halfway up. So I'm looking at it today and I think "Greenhouse!" Because why not. How would...
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    Urgent - worm question.

    How much do you feed your worms? I have two pounds (less a few escapees who died on my living room floor). Maybe I'm feeding them too much? I have lots of shredded newspaper and cardboard in there so they can crawl around. Maybe I have too many for the space? The cardboard and newspaper...
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    Urgent - worm question.

    Thank you. I took the lid off and added some eggshells and more newspaper. I mixed the whole mess up to make sure that everyone reaped the benefits. My husband thinks I'm kind of nuts as well. Mostly because I keep bringing up the worm status at dinner. I was so excited when I saw activity...
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    Urgent - worm question.

    I used greenmagick's worm bin design - a big Rubbermaid bin with air holes in the bottom and lid, loose packing material in the bottom with hardware cloth over that then landscape cover. The environment is shredded newspaper and cardboard with some soil, compost and veggie scraps. Everybody...
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    Getting started with my worms!

    I haven't done it yet but I found this site (apparently for kids) to be the most informative so far. http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/pg000224.html Edit: I just found this one too when I looked up reproduction rates: http://ag.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/redwormbiology.html
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