Goats for soil disturbing/meat and load in horse/cow manure?
Discussion
I'll eventually have a couple goats, getting cow manure from my cheese guy, and my friend has horses he said hed give me manure from but I'm gonna wait a year to accept any - wanna see what they feed em.
I compost everything in a single year in one large pile that my chickens and ducks have access to (bedding, table scraps, clippings, wood ash, and garden waste). They do the turning for me. They also fertilize as they turn. I use my goats for orchard maintenance. Similar fertilization benefits.
For gardening I use the previous year’s compost. Occasionally I being in manure. I try to keep the entire process simple.
Awesome, I plan on doing a bit of everything compost wise - but I'll definitely be relying on my chickens & ducks to do the work for me.
Buying fruit trees this year, have a decent budget.
Just need to find the right supplier of trees.
Also, trying to 10x my red wigglers again this szn, so ~200k to ~2m worms.
Worms are a must.
Should add that rabbits are also apart of this process.. I house them inside my coop where the chickens and ducks roost. The chickens spread the rabbit manure into the bedding that is raked out and added to the compost every spring. I let the bedding build up from spring through to winter. It composts down and adds heat to the coop in the winter.
I also breed worms for the castings.
The thing about horse dookie is that it doesn’t break down the weed seed as well. I learned that the hard way.