[Jacob-list] dung seeding

[Linda]

Good point.  I wonder if feeding seed to donkeys would work better?

Linda
 
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On Thu, 25 May 2006 20:27:00 -0400, Gillian Fuqua wrote:
> I don't know how well it would work because I never seem to have
> much growing in the sheep poop pile.  The horse manure piles that I
> have known and loved are always full of vegetation.  I would think
> that if feeding the grass seed were truly effective, our manure
> piles would be much more full of plants.  My girls eat plenty of
> wild grass seed in the fall.
>
> As for breeding young ewes, that is one of those hot button
> questions.  I don't do it, the ewes are not fully grown and I worry
> about the effects of pregnancy on growing bodies.  But I also know
> of follks who have done it.
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