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post #1 of 4
8/10/12 at 7:57am
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I am looking at trying something and din't know if anyone had any feedback on this. Chickens have poop......mushrooms grow on straw and poop. So why not grow some nice buttons or portobellas on the chicken waste? 

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post #2 of 4
8/16/12 at 12:37pm
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http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/growing-mushrooms.html

 

Okay doing a bit of research and it seems as though it is possible. It just needs to be broken down manure and straw to have a good bed for mushrooms

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post #3 of 4
8/18/12 at 3:27am

Thanks for the link! I want to try and grow mushrooms as well and we always have more poop than we need, so I'll give it a try. But it's going to have to wait a bit until after we moved. Let me know how it worked for you.

 

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8/18/12 at 6:49am
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Sounds Good! I'm going to do a bit of experimenting. It says about curing or aging the chicken manure for 4-6 weeks. I live in central PA and manure is plentiful! So I'm going to do a batch of straight chicken, a run of straight horse, straight cow and than try blends. My thought is that cow manure is more massive and not quite as packed full of nitrogen and that is one of the controversies with chicken manure is the power of the nitrogen and such in such a small package. I change the straw in the coop often and my hay to poop ratio is fairly high. I may end up salting my chicken batch with some cow manure. Regardless it's going to be interesting and I wanna start growing some big fat portobellas and some crimini. I found a few places on-line to get the vials of spores. These are two of them:

 

http://www.spores101.co/

 

http://www.ralphstersspores.com/

 

 
It shall be an interesting experiment and could be profitable. As well as add another product for the organic farmers. 
 
Happy Experimenting! 
 
I will post updates as things change. 
 
Cheers!
 
Chad
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