Composting sheep manure : offgrid farm life Portugal
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- How we compost sheep manure quickly into high-quality ethical compost. Composting is an art, a workout and a vital part of organic self-sufficient living.
1. Make a 2 meter cubed pile of manure, make sure it is wet
2. turn it in every 4 days, or every 2 weeks or somewhere between. For the fastest compost, turn after the 4th day and then every 2 days and it will be ready in 18 days.
3. make sure it is always wet
4. when you turn, try to get the outside of the pile to move into the inside of the new pile. only the middle composts.
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I learned more in 4 minutes about organic sheep and barn management from this video than hours of watching other channels! Subscribed!
Thank you, i will start a series on sheep soon enough :-)
Great video, thanks. I do this too, though my sheep farm is on an island in Malaysia. We don’t use hay or a barn. Instead, we have a wooden house on stilts, 5.5 feet above the ground, with slats to let the poo fall to the ground underneath. I scrape the manure out from under the house and layer it with raked mowed grass and leaves in my compost heap.
Nice, more natural. Very cool. Have tou tried Bio car to reduce smells?
I very much appreciate the respect you gave to your fork. the uninformed may think you were joshing - but your were not.
Thank you. I really enjoy composting and making it easier with good tools is even better
you are amzing doing your farm. Nice Fog=)
I wish i was there and help you but i hope i will be there soon as soon i get help to find residency option i live in canada and its easy for uropian than canadian stay safe thanks for all detail explanation your a perfect teacher.
You can do it! our best friend and neighbour is from canada!
varry good bro. you are on right way.
Hi. I'm from Malaysia, a tropical climate country. I have one question, is it okay to expose our compose pile to rain? Or i need roof for the pile?
no you would need a roof.
Hi Abdullah, sorry for the late reply. I leave ours to rain as we have so many piles and always in different places. But to do it really well you should have it out of rain and control the water you add to it. You should even have it on a cement base so you do not leach too many nitrates in the spoil. In fact that is a law for organic farming here in Europe. p.s soprry for the late reply
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Good video good work my friends
Thank you
Where is your location exactly i am looking for land in portugal and i will come there to stablish my homesteady i apreciat your in put stay safe .
Fundao in central Portugal
Hello and thanks for your instructional video. Interesting that you feed mimosa to your sheep, makes sense, in the wild ruminates eat acacias as well - are they going crazy for it?
What about the Johnson Sue Bioreactor, ever thought about it instead of that much turning?
Obrigado e abraço
By the way, how much mimosa can be fed to sheep in relation to the other feeds? Thank you!
Is it different with cow manure?? Great video btw thanks!!
No exactly the same :)
Did you try putting some on your land or fruit tree trunks without composting it first.?
Hi, sorry for my question, i hope yoy answer. I'm raising over 500 sheeps, and i usually dont get that poop/ hay mix. I have but only a very small amount. Can i use raw poop?
You mean you sheep are always outside so you dont have bedding?
Compost needs a good nitrogen to carbon ratio. If you only have poop it wont compost so well so you need to add hay. Use some spoilled hay or straw and layer it with the poo into your piles.
Do u spend your compost over your paddocks ?
Actually I do not at the moment. Just don’t have enough or the equipment. However instead I am slowly planting nitrogen fixing and fodder trees in all the paddocks. Each get a wheelbarrow of compost.
Can't believe I wasn't subscribed to your channel yet.
Very nice video Laurence!
Send me a message on FB and I'll give you a link for a great compost sieve.
Thank you :-) Would love to see the compost sieve :-) i currently use all sorts of odd things to sieve the compost to different sizes
Do you sell your compost as well? If so, how much would you say on average income does that bring in?
How many sheep do you have?
Im looking to start raising sheep myself. I figured i’d start with 3 and get in to the routine as well as get a hold on the technicals before I expand from there.
Thanks for your video.
I mostly use the compost on our farm as we grow a lot. we do sell the odd bit but not many people are prepared to pay what it is worth. a cubic meter of good compost has about 100 eur worth of bedding in it and a lot of man hours. I would not get more than 100eur for that compsot
@@keelapermaculturefarm Hey, if you’re spending 100eur for the materials and you sell the finished product for 100eur, you’re basically using shit to replenish your materials right? Just my thinking. Im just starting out with sheep though so trial and error will aid in the learning as always. ha
Thanks for your response!
@@andrewgood7586 good luck. let us know if yu have any questions
Where are you based?
Hi Chris, we are in mata da rainha
Deal with the matter
deal with it propper!