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RE: brown stuff & composting

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The caution against using horse manure from horses freshly de-wormed was 
good. And that should be your only concern about using horse manure in your 
compost. If the horse was part of a stable/stall/arena facility, often 
they'll have certain dates when they worm the horses and for the next week 
or so, those stalls raked out will go in a different pile from the ones 
they offer to gardeners.
As far as the anthelmenics actually killing earthworms, there may be enough 
residual to kill them outright, but probably not. (But why chance it?) 
Earthworms are tough little things, but some of the good bacteria and 
micro-organisms may not be so tough and may die back from the poisons in 
the manure.
Living in Texas, it's recommended that we de-worm our livestock every 30 - 
45 days, rotating the drugs used. NOW, it's being discovered that the 
internal parasites are becoming resistant to all of the chemicals used, 
mutating to reproductive stages at the times when the wormers can't kill 
them. Of course, I've had a hard time with the thought of having to 
deANYTHING every month, so my goats and llamas are still happily 
undewormed. And may be the last herd in Texas where parasite control is 
actually very useful (since I don't practice it very often.)
martha


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