What Do You Do With Your Waste?

[dug]

I compost the lot, and the yeast from the fermenter goes srtaight onto the garden as well.

Though there was one time we were dog sitting and I just chuck the grain on the garden. the next day there were suspect piles of grain in the lawn, nice round cyliders of grain in fact.

 

[Josh]

Spent grain goes on the garden, then the gf's dad spreads it out around his lime trees and veges.

Spent hops and trub go on the lawn.

 

[Muggus]

The neighbours have chooks and are quite happy to swap eggs for a few kilos of spent grain. Win win situation I reckon.

I try to dump hop trub somewhere in the garden where the dog won't get to it. That could end badly!

 

[geoff_tewierik]

Neighbours chooks get the spent grain, hops and trub go on the garden.

 

[Mantis]

Some grain to the chooks and the rest in the compost bin.
Was emptying the kettle trub onto the lemon tree, but the tree has stopped growing and is probably dead. So not putting trub on garden any more

 

[matthendry]

Theres a guy who grows Mushrooms commercially not far where I live in the US and he uses some spent grain from Otter Creek/Wolavers (Vermont) to grow some of his mushrooms that need lignin cellulose and nitrogen .The rest of Otter Creeks grain goes to a Diary Farmer.

http://www.moonshinemushrooms.com/

Spent grain is a great substrate for cultivating mushrooms lite Shiitake ,Oyster and Portebello .

http://www.zeri.org/case_studies_beer.htm

This could be a good reuse of grain for you brew in a bag brewers
http://www.vermontmushrooms.com/indoorcultivationmethods.htm




Stone uses their spent grain as a soil amendment .

http://blog.stonebrew.com/?p=623

 

[matthendry]

Some grain to the chooks and the rest in the compost bin.
Was emptying the kettle trub onto the lemon tree, but the tree has stopped growing and is probably dead. So not putting trub on garden any more

Trub contains a lot of nitrogen and is acidic so its best used in the compost bin first.

 

[NickB]

To those who feed chooks with their grain, do you let it dry out, or just let it cool down and feed it to them?

I only ask because I've got some young chicks, who will be onto grain soon, and don't want to harm or even kill them by doing the wrong thing....

Cheers

 

[geoff_tewierik]

I dump it straight over the fence, by the time the chooks find it, it has cooled down.

 

[Batz]

To those who feed chooks with their grain, do you let it dry out, or just let it cool down and feed it to them?

I only ask because I've got some young chicks, who will be onto grain soon, and don't want to harm or even kill them by doing the wrong thing....

Cheers

The little chicks love it, even before they can eat whole grain. Mine get while it's still warm.

Batz

 

[NickB]

Awesome, thanks guys. Might inspire me to finish the second part of the Chicken Coop, as the three chicks are happy enough for now, but they're three times bigger than they were three weeks ago, and will need some new digs shortly







Cheers

PS: No Chappo, they're not old enough yet h34r: