WOW! Lots MORE food for thought...including the Greek. That didn't even make any sense. =/
Kassaundra, I'd use my chickens but free range they'd be meat. Gotta build a small tractor before they can really help me. Right now, I can feed every weed I pull out of my beds and other places to the birds. I have an overabundance of manure and rotting bedding to use for $nothing.
Marshall I have noticed a different texture in the old rotted composting manure, old pine shavings, old straw and powdered pine bedding--that's what happens to the Equine Fresh pellets when they're soaked up any liquid.
I have the ingredients, just learning to use them correctly.
I feel like I didn't know ANYTHING about composting until this year, although I've been studying up on it for the last four years.