Guinea Pig Waste as Compost
As many of you know, I bought a mini farm in Southern Missouri. I have a 4.5 acre pasture and a lot of ideas on what to do with it. I generate a lot of guinea pig waste. Since I use fleece bedding on 5 of the 6 cages, there's mostly the uneaten hay and lots of droppings. I was thinking about composting it on the pasture and using the resulting compost as fertilizer for the greehouses. There's also lots of other food scraps and other organic waste we generate that all had to be thrown in the trash when we lived in the city which we're going to compost, but I don't know about the guinea pig's waste. Do any of you know?
I thought so. The manure from pretty much any animal that eats primarily hay and grasses should make good compost.
I generate a lot of guinea pig waste. I'm not going to be able to compost all of it but I can do about half. Doing that will reduce the amount of garbage that needs to be picked up every week.
- ItsaZoo
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I agree with both of your posts, Lynx. I take the fleece to the back part of the yard and just get the hay and waste out and leave it in a pile with the rest of the yard waste. Then I go to the corner of the house. I stand on one side of the house and hold the fleece around the corner on the other side and give it a good shake. Shaking out fleece is a dangerous task.
I have a nice spot where I've already started a guinea pig compost pile. I also have a composter for household food waste.