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What animal waste for compost bins?
Hello everyone happy new year, I have a question regarding composting, we've just recently started making our own compost we keep alot of aviary and pet birds from finches up to macaws Aswell as rats and degus Can there poop and spoiled newspaper and wood based litter be used in our compost bins? What else can we add? Cardboard? Food? Currently we add leaves and cut back perennials and shrubs. We also have 2 very large fish tanks can the dirty water from the tanks when we change them once a week be beneficial to the garden and fruit and veg garden? Thanks Sam
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Bird poo is good in compost, chicken poo is used commercially. Don't put cooked meat and fish in it, encourages rats. Newspaper and fine wood shavings are good in compost as well, improves the texture. There should be dry waste like that as well as wet waste from rotting vegetable waste. I put used paper kitchen towels in the compost.
Agree with others that bird and rodent waste will be good and safe for the compost.
Would be more cautious about the fishtank water. Fish are living in a confined environment where diseases can quickly build up, and some of them can be passed on to humans.