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[chickadoodles]

Ouch!

Hey have any of you thought of turning all your food scraps into gas and fertilizer?
I just saw this video and it looks pretty easy.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=942294805949719

 

[Bunnylady]

Ouch!

Hey have any of you thought of turning all your food scraps into gas and fertilizer?
I just saw this video and it looks pretty easy.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=942294805949719

Actually, I've often thought I should figure out a way to use the animal waste (specifically horse and rabbit) to produce biogas. The horses alone could probably produce enough to heat the greenhouse.

I remember seeing something that was being promoted in 3rd world countries using the same kind of idea but a 55 gallon drum and animal waste - produced enough gas to cook over, which spared the trees.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

That's sad. Sorry.

I just tied a fork to a pie tin like the old timmers used to do and tied it to my porch door. The wind is blowing it around making it clang. I hope it works!
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Holy hell is that daffodils and green grass?



We got up to 44F today and I thought that was amazing. Still have ice, ice, ice.

 

[chickadoodles]

Holy hell is that daffodils and green grass?



We got up to 44F today and I thought that was amazing. Still have ice, ice, ice.

Yes it is. It's 82* here today.
next week it will be back in the 60's.

 

[chickadoodles]

Actually, I've often thought I should figure out a way to use the animal waste (specifically horse and rabbit) to produce biogas. The horses alone could probably produce enough to heat the greenhouse.

I remember seeing something that was being promoted in 3rd world countries using the same kind of idea but a 55 gallon drum and animal waste - produced enough gas to cook over, which spared the trees.

If I could get it figured out I would do it. There was someone on one of my garden threads talking about that kind of set up with the 55 gallon drum. We really don't have enough scraps and cow manure to make it work now that we only have 4 cows.

 

[Kusanar]

Ouch!

Hey have any of you thought of turning all your food scraps into gas and fertilizer?
I just saw this video and it looks pretty easy.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=942294805949719

Actually, I've often thought I should figure out a way to use the animal waste (specifically horse and rabbit) to produce biogas. The horses alone could probably produce enough to heat the greenhouse.

I remember seeing something that was being promoted in 3rd world countries using the same kind of idea but a 55 gallon drum and animal waste - produced enough gas to cook over, which spared the trees.

I read a while back about a dairy farm that produces cheese, they made massive methane collectors like this but much much bigger. They run all of their manure into them, then the solids once it is fully cooked is sold to potting soil manufacturers, the liquids, they spray on their fields to grow the alfalfa that they feed the cattle. The gas, they run through a generator and produce enough power to run the entire farm plus they dump the extra back onto the grid and power most of the surrounding community. So, they are making money from selling the manure solids, they are selling electricity, and they are selling cheese with very little input going into the system since the cows are primarally fed on the alfalfa they grow on site. They could also possibly convert their tractors etc into methane run and not have to buy fuel for the equipment.

Holy hell is that daffodils and green grass?



We got up to 44F today and I thought that was amazing. Still have ice, ice, ice.

Our weather is nuts... It tried to snow on Saturday... it was 80 today...

 

[Beer can]

I'll be back later to read back. Just did a little gif of a vid from earlier.
Giant girls getting along great with Naked neck rooster, think I'll have plenty of fertile eggs soon Lol...

 

[ronott1]

I'll be back later to read back. Just did a little gif of a vid from earlier.
Giant girls getting along great with Naked neck rooster, think I'll have plenty of fertile eggs soon Lol...
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Is he being hen pecked?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Did you put him in their coop?

I'll be back later to read back. Just did a little gif of a vid from earlier.
Giant girls getting along great with Naked neck rooster, think I'll have plenty of fertile eggs soon Lol...
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[CapricornFarm]

I found a bunny outside the nest box so trying to warm it up.