Are little mushrooms normal?

[CricketB]

I was turning my compost this evening and found that I had these two-three inch skinny mushrooms growing in my compost. Is that normal or should I be concerned? I put pretty much all of my kitchen scraps, straw, hay, chicken and cow manure in the heap. It is closed off so the animals can't get into it.

 

[vfem]

Pretty normal... mushrooms like decay, and the spores usually seem to find a good home in places like mulch piles and compost. Its just the nature of the fungi.

 

[CricketB]

I shouldn't eat them right? lol

We have cow manure in there and a few of my friends joked saying that they were shrooms lol. NOT that I would ever do drugs! I just thought it was funny.

 

[vfem]

I am no mushroom expert... but I would NOT eat them. Unless I grew my own and knew exactly what they were and from where they came. I know people who are into the search mushroom craze... but again, I think they are CRAZY! LOL