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Would you rather have unlimited compost or unlimited livestock feed?

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One to feed your garden and one to feed your animals.

Would you rather have unlimited compost or unlimited livestock feed?

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Sign me up for unlimited feed.

Compost and its creation is soothing to me. Like a messy bonsai.

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Unlimited feed. assuming that is delivered. That would provide for unlimited compost. Now if I had to haul it home then I suppose the answer would change.

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I'm in for feed! At $20 for a50# bag, and $10/bale for hay, vs building compost from the manure and food scraps - no brainer, for me.

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It's funny, as I started thinking about this question, I settled on unlimited compost because with that I could make unlimited feed, which is sort of the opposite of the above couple answers. But it also might be that as a vegetarian, I need a lot more veggies than animals.

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Indeed. Unlimited feed creates unlimited compost.

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I agee with other votes for animal feed as it is expensive.

Feed the animal and get free stuff to compost.

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I'm on the unlimited compost side. I'd rather grow what I want for feed.

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Compost. I don't like taking care of animals and having them around, too much hastle and stress for me.

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Feed! For many years I've been buying hay and feed to both feed my animals and the soil. I get dual use of the money the feed costs first it feeds the critters then the soil so a better bang for the bucks. Hopefully this year I stop buying feed. Just have to install another 1/4 mile of fence to enclose another 4-5 acres or so. Either way the animals produce manure which then turns to compost and feeds the soil. It is NOT the only form of compost I use though. I also gather rotted wood chip compost from the wood lot down the road.

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Compost of course! I am vegetarian and don’t have animals except for dogs, and they are plenty of work. Compost is what I would like.

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Doesn't unlimited livestock feed eventually become unlimited compost?

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I'd like to have unlimited livestock feed.
Wow, what a savings! And if there's surplus (I assume there would be with "unlimited"), there's more chop-and-drop.

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Matt McSpadden wrote:One to feed your garden and one to feed your animals.

Would you rather have unlimited compost or unlimited livestock feed?

Unlimited compost, since we need it in truck loads.
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Compost, hands down, you can grow anything with good compost! I get a volunteer from a bin I have in one garden, every year, pumpkins, butternut squash, tomatoes, fruit trees, flowers, etc

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