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Hi everyone,  I have a hugelkultur bed that was started last year and I want to keep adding to it. So, I have a moose visiting and/or maybe taking up residence and he has shit all over my fields and pruned the bottom branches of my apple trees. Can I put his poop directly into my hugelkultur bed, or should I put it into my newer kitchen scrap pile and let it age some more before using it? I was going to make layers using apple branches and poplar logs, then older kitchen scrap compost, then turned over sod and I was going to mulch with rotten hay. I have a bunch of cardboard, too, but I'm not sure what layer that should be. I'm kinda new to this.. Also, can I plant into this thing this season, right into the sod and put the mulch around each seedling? Thanks for any advice.
 
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As long as they are on top of the ground rather than dug in, I think they will be great for a garden.

Moose are browsers.  The poop looks like sawdust if you break one open.  But as browsers they eat the twigs, leaves, etc.  So what you're going to get is basically the same as if you took a bunch of twigs, etc and put them on your ground, except they've been through a gut and are already partially broken down.  The advantage of this is that the 'little branches' they eat are actually fairly low in carbon and pretty rich in all of the good stuff, as well as partially digested, as compared with the kind of sawdust you would get from a sawmill.  Even so, I think they would be better on top of the ground as a fertilizer rather than dug in (they may take up the nitrogen to break down the still relatively high carbon content).  
 
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