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Pasteurizing manure? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mushroomgrowers@lemmy.ca
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I have chickens, who create quite a bit of poop I can use to grow mushrooms, but I'm not sure how to pasteurize/sanitize it. I was thinking pressure cooker?

I ordered some spore syringes and I'm not sure if i should get premade bags with injection ports or if I should make my own bags. It's the same cost to buy bags and a used instant pot, and I already have coco coir. Once I get some mushroom colonies going I was planning on keeping it going by breaking it up and mixing it with fresh substrate, but I don't want to keep buying pasteurized manure.

How do people do this? I'm very new

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Even if I'm pasteurizing in a pressure cooker?? What are green manures? What kind of mineral supplements?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I know this is super old but I wanted to chime in. I think you still want to compost the chicken poop because it’s super high in nitrogen and it needs to drop some before it’s productive to use for mushrooms.

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