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Thread: Uses for sawdust
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30th April 2013, 09:02 PM #16
If you have any neighbours with cats - good kitty litter, and then it's their problem
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30th April 2013, 10:37 PM #17Senior Member
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Thanks, everyone for your input.. I now have enough ideas to keep me going into the distant future. Probably have to give up making things, and just make dust for a while in order to try everything out! Seriously though, I will get to work on some composting, with other material added as per your suggestions.
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1st May 2013, 07:39 AM #18
Mine goes into a deep litter chook-yard, stays for 12 months or so, gets mixed with water in a cement mixer and then composted. The combination provides an excellent balance of nutrients. You'll be surprised at how hot the compost heap gets in just a couple of days. Takes a couple of weeks for the composting action to finish.
You can also mix with wax and make into firelighters
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1st May 2013, 08:05 AM #19
Didn't your grans old fashioned door draft snakes have sawdust in them.
Maybe get the missus sowing and stuffing to sell at a craft market.
Tell her she can keep whatever she makes.
When she runs out of sawdust she'll be begging you to go into the shed to make more.
Peter
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Granny's door snake was sand filled. Well it was, until my grandfather came home after a night fox shooting, spotted the "snake" on the floor at his feet and let it have it with the shot gun.
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1st May 2013, 01:43 PM #21
Hi Burraboy,
I'm aware I'm taking this off topic somewhat, but would you mind giving a quick description on your deep litter setup? I'll be building a chook pen and run for around 8 chooks soon, and I'm interested in what to do for the flooring. I'm interested in the deep litter setup.
Thanks.
Nathan.
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1st May 2013, 02:31 PM #22GOLD MEMBER
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One molecule at a time, in aquatic ecosystems, most paints, stains and finishes are down-right NASTY to the critters who have to live there.
So I keep a couple of garbage bags of sawdust and shavings as a dump for waste woodworking chemicals.
Once those are bound to the wood shavings and dry, they are biochemically far less hazardous.
So what am I throwing out? Dry lumps of (mostly) plastic.
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1st May 2013, 02:58 PM #23Skwair2rownd
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Very finely powdered you could use it as snuff!!!
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1st May 2013, 04:29 PM #24
Pretty plain but works well, a basic corrugated iron shed, (allow minimun of 1 square metre per bird I think), open to the North (for me anyway that stops any rain getting in and allows plenty of sun) with a sub wall about 30cm high to keep the sawdust and shavings in and the foxes out. The floor is made of broken/half bricks, set out like paving. The floor area is filled with sawdust and shavings and DRY lawn clippings to about 150-200mm deep. The idea is to keep the litter dry, so don't put any wet clippings in, let them dry first.
I went a bit fancy and added a 'roll-away' laying box so I could collect eggs from the outside. I also use an automatic waterer suspended from the ceiling, high enough so as the fowls don't clog it up with scratchings, same with the feeder.
Every so often I set up a birdwire roll on end and fill it with the litter mix (by this time sawdust, chook poo and whatever food scraps the chooks haven't eaten), combined with water, premixed in a cement mixer. Once the water is added, the composting reaction takes off! Three weeks later-compost for the garden!
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1st May 2013, 04:55 PM #25
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1st May 2013, 06:57 PM #26
Just keep adding material, there's no set time for emptying, it will break down to a certain degree and become a bit dusty if you leave too long though. If I am doing a bit of gardening i'll partly empty out and mix up a batch of compost a few weeks ahead. Or maybe if i have a big lot of stuff about to go in. There is no need to empty it all out either, just keep a good level of litter on the floor.
Won't stink as long as it's kept dry.
I had a lot of success with growing rhubarb in tyres filled with the compost. Won ribbons at the local show. I can taste rhubarb and ginger crumble just by thinking about it.
Give the compost a good few weeks to fully decompose, if you can find the time to turn it over too so much the better.
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5th May 2013, 09:14 PM #28Novice
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Why not have a look around and see if there are any pet stores about,there are a couple near where I live and they gladly take the sawdust and shavings to use in the bottom of their pet cages.
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