It’s a slow wriggle – Dog Poo Wormery Update

So 3 weeks ago I invested in a dog poo wormery. We did this for a number of reasons; mainly smelly bins and trying to be more eco concious. And I thought some of you might be interested in an update.

1. The great escape: The worms escaped. This was something I had read would probably happen but it’s weird to go outside in the middle of a thunder storm and see worms crawling out of the lid. They also climb into the lid and down into the sump (where the liquid collects). Dont worry I didn’t loose them all!
2. Location, location, location: When we bought the wormery the plan was always to tuck it up behind the cobtree. However, I think they’re interesting and I was very excited so I kept them on the patio below the kitchen window. Bad choice! What I didn’t think about was the fact that my patio (and hence the worms) gets full sunshine from about midday till early evening. I kept opening up the wormery and finding it full of condensation before I realised my grave mistake and moved them. I fear I lost a great number of worms from this but fortunately I still have some.
3. It’s slow going: When you get the worms you’re told you have to feed them a handful of food for the first week, repeat for the second week and then you can add your first poo! So last week we added our first poo…nothing seems to have happened other than it turning white. It does say that get the wormery up to speed would take time but I was sort of expecting (hoping) that something would happen.
4. Fresh as a daisy: At the moment there isn’t any smell, now this could be because it only has 2 in it but I’ll let you know.

So really at the moment what I have is a box of an unknown number of worms that I tried to kill that doesn’t seem to do much but I’m hopeful that soon I will have something positive to report. Apparently it could takes between 2 – 5 years to get the wormery up to capacity!

 

The worms go in, the worms come out

If you read my blog you’ll know that a couple of days ago we order a pet waste wormery. And with fabulous customer service from Wormcity it was delivered today!

It was really easy to set up and the worms seemed pretty happy once they came out of the bag.

All we have to do now is wait a couple of weeks, hope not to many worms attempt an escape before they decide it should be their home. We’ll keep you update on their progress!

What to do with Poo?

A couple of weeks ago my partner and I started discussing alternatives to disposing of all the waste Kira produces. When you buy a dog you don’t think about how much poo one dog can produce…it’s a lot.

Anyway, currently we have been bagging and throwing it away. If we’re out on a walk we take our biodegradable bags with us and pop it into the dog poo bins you occassionally see. If those aren’t available I drive it home with me (this has happened a couple of times and I would rather not repeat these experiences but poo bins seem to be a bit hit and miss at popular dog walking locations).

However, at home we haven’t been so environmentally friendly. We bag it up in normal rubbish bags and put it in our house hold waste bin and forget about it….except we can’t! With bins only being collected fortnightly it smells! Hence the conversation coming up, cue google search time!

There are several articles out there which give you the options for you dog waste disposal. I looked into the doggy toilet but decided I didn’t really want to be digging big holes in the garden to one in or want to be continuing my bad eco-friendlyness by using chemical ones so that left me with flushable poo bags or a dog poo wormery. My partner was apparently not going to be flushing Kira’s poo down the loo so that was that option out.

So I ordered a pet poo wormery. Originally I ordered one from Original Organics but after waiting nearly 3 weeks and 2 failed ordered I gave up and got a refund. So sadly I’m still wormless :(. But today, I tried again and I have ordered another one from WormCity. Hopefully I should have our new dog waste wormery all set up and ready for the weekend. I’ll let you know how it goes!