Our guinea pigs wee on newspaper, stacks of at least 10 sheets of newsprint,
which must become quite nitrogenous. ATM I throw this out as I have no time
for hand-shredding it to make mulch.

What are my options?

Can anyone recommend a heavy-duty paper shredder that would take slabs of 10+
sheets with the odd piggie poo on them? Would a mulcher work?

I've heard you can put newspaper in worm farms, but would the 100 broadsheets
a week be too much for them to munch through? Most of our other scraps go to
the chooks, so I'm not entirely sure what else the worms would get.

All experiences and suggestions welcome.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

"Chookie" wrote in message
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Our guinea pigs wee on newspaper, stacks of at least 10 sheets of
newsprint,
which must become quite nitrogenous. ATM I throw this out as I have no
time
for hand-shredding it to make mulch.

What are my options?

Can anyone recommend a heavy-duty paper shredder that would take slabs of
10+
sheets with the odd piggie poo on them? Would a mulcher work?

I've heard you can put newspaper in worm farms, but would the 100
broadsheets
a week be too much for them to munch through? Most of our other scraps go
to
the chooks, so I'm not entirely sure what else the worms would get.

All experiences and suggestions welcome.


We used just add newspaper to the compost heap and then use a garden fork to
punch lots of holes into each bundle (~ 1 local paper thickness interspersed
with vege scraps / lawn clippings etc)... it sped up decomposition and let
the worms get between the layers quite easily.
No where near the volume of paper you are talking about though.

Amanda

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"Flowergirl" wrote:

We used just add newspaper to the compost heap and then use a garden fork to
punch lots of holes into each bundle (~ 1 local paper thickness interspersed
with vege scraps / lawn clippings etc)... it sped up decomposition and let
the worms get between the layers quite easily.
No where near the volume of paper you are talking about though.

Yep -- we get six SMHs a week, though a lot of that goes into the piggie cage.
The rest goes into the recycling. Problem is, they can't recycle the
piddled-on paper!

I might try ripping up this week's lot and throwing it into the chook run.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

"Chookie" wrote in message
news:ehrebeniuk-413591.12114015092007@news...
Our guinea pigs wee on newspaper, stacks of at least 10 sheets of
newsprint,
which must become quite nitrogenous. ATM I throw this out as I have no
time
for hand-shredding it to make mulch.

What are my options?


Wouldn't it be easier to shred it first. You can tear quite a few sheets at
once when dry and its more appealing than wet. When its wet straight into
the compost.

David