What do you do with your piggie waste?

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Now I was wondering, what do you all do with your piggie waste?

As it is winter I'm going through three black bags a week, I usually put it in the green recycle garden waste bag but sometimes they don't collect it or they come on a day thats no scheduled and I end up with a smelly bag of piggie poop waste for two weeks or more mallethead...

Anyways I looked into recycled bin liners/ eco friendly ones at co-op/morrisions/tesco/asda and i did find some but they're around £5.50 for a pack of 20 :S and i really can't afford that!

So I was wondering what all you lovely cavy slaves do with your piggle waste, as i might get a few ideas :))

Thankies!
 
We have a bank at the front of our house that leads up to waste land. My dirty piggy hay ends up at the top of our garden rotting away on the waste land :red It eventually just rots in to the grass.

The wet shavings and newspaper end up in a black bin liner in our green bin so we are only using one bin liner instead of 2 a week because of the hay.

It annoys me as we have a brown bin for garden waste but we can't put the hay in there even though it is only dried grass ?/
 
Claire W said:
We have a bank at the front of our house that leads up to waste land. My dirty piggy hay ends up at the top of our garden rotting away on the waste land :red It eventually just rots in to the grass.

The wet shavings and newspaper end up in a black bin liner in our green bin so we are only using one bin liner instead of 2 a week because of the hay.

It annoys me as we have a brown bin for garden waste but we can't put the hay in there even though it is only dried grass ?/
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Hahaha I think my gardens too small to put my piggie waste in it....i think my family might notice and complain haha! Although it might make a nice 'arty' center feature piece :))

That makes no sense!, do they not know what hay is? Councils don't make sense sometimes! mallethead
 
Ours goes in a bin liner and goes with the household waste (brown bin) although sometimes the neighbour has it for his veggie patch.
 
We compost ours when possible and the rest goes in the normal bin. Trying to change to fleece t cut down the amount of waste we are producing.
 
all ours goes in the green garden waste sack! aslmong as theres not too much newspaper in there they take it :) x
 
we just put all ours in bin liners and it goes in the bin though we have to fight for space in our bin from the turkish and polish neighbours who do not seem to understand get your own bin :))
 
I might need to start findng an eco-friendly way of disposing piggy waste...I feel so bad now after reading all the other posts. I just put them all in trash bags and the trash collectors come once a week....:red:red
 
The bins only get collected here every 2 weeks :( So the bins get full really quickly. I have 4 hutches so it's hard to get rid of the waste. I used to seperate the woodshavings and the newspaper and put the newspaper in the bin and the woodshavings went in our garden at the back where there's loads of trees and bushes and it just rots into it.

I am getting a rabbit in April and that's another hutch, so I've changed 3 of my guinea-pig hutches onto vetbed. The girls can't go on vetbed because it's soaking wet within a day because there's so many of them and the vetbed won't dry in time for me to change it daily.
 
Our council do offer a graden waste collection every 2 weeks but only March/April until end of October yearly. We pay £30 for this and the council would not give me an answer on pet waste so asked the binmen and they say put dry newspapers in recycling bin, wet ones in grey landfill bin, and the hay/megazorb/shavings in garden waste.

Noticed lad next door who has 4 bunnies put about 6 black bags out once full of shavings/hay - binmen ripped it open and left them.

Anyway over winter I recycle what newspaper I can and black bag the hay/megazorb - my Dad does a tip run every 4-6 weeks for me and empties it in the garden waste skip at the tip. I just leave the black bags at the end of the garage until Dad goes to the tip.

I do 2 cleans a week on the hutches outside so get 2 black bags full a week. Monty inside is cleaned every 2-3 days fully but only a carrier bag at a time. Be so glad when the garden waste collection is back in 3 months time!
 
i put all my cage stuff in my green recycling/garden waste bin and its collected once a fortnight.

I emailed the council to ask what to do with it as i was struggling getting it all in my normal bin, they told me to bung it all in the green one.

Its always been collected when ive used shavings, magazorb or newspaper.
 
I only use new paper & hay now, it's cut the waste in half :)
We put it all in our green bin, which is collected fortnightly, if the bin gets too full we put it down on the compost heep.

Have you considdered using reusable bedding?
 
our garden waste bin states No Animal Waste in big letters! We use fleece so the poops just go into an Asda bag and into the main bin :(
 
As long as the waste is from vegitarian animals, which Squigles are, we can put all the waste in :S
 
Squigle said:
I only use new paper & hay now, it's cut the waste in half :)
We put it all in our green bin, which is collected fortnightly, if the bin gets too full we put it down on the compost heep.

Have you considdered using reusable bedding?
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I only use paper and hay too :) It's just that as it's winter and the boys are outside (in a shed) I'm going through so much waste to keep them warm and feed, and I have thought about fleece/ vet bed maybe I should look into it more...hmmm.... thankies :)
 
We put it on our plants, Pot plants especially.
Just waiting for someone to say:
"Oh are those the new 'snail pellets'"

lol
 
Maybe you could try putting peices of fleece/blankets orlittle pillows in the bedding area the too to keep them a big warmer and try to reduce hay
 
Cinnamon said:
We put it on our plants, Pot plants especially.
Just waiting for someone to say:
"Oh are those the new 'snail pellets'"

lol
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I hope they are ok :) How does it go so far?

before switching to vetbed we had our pigs on megazorb + hay and I literally destroyed plants in two large tubs by trying to compost the waste underneath the main soil. My husband said it's because of all the acid and salt they have in their urine, but pellets should be ok?
 
I'm lucky enough to have a very big garden with a gap in the fence where lawn mowings are emptied. I just bundle my fleece up and tip it all in there. Would it be possible for you to get a compost bin?
 
With my current pen set-up, i use wood shavings the pen gets cleaned out twice a week into a cheap bin bag, popped into the car and i take it to my fathers allotment and dump the lot on the compost heap.

Apparently since we have been doing this my dad claims his veg patch have given better yield and he's encouraging me to get more piggys so he gets more compost regularly!

Maybe its worth finding your local allotment association and offering your waste for free. I'm sure they would take it depending on what the waste mix is.

Other options are the underground dog waste bins which * burry deep in the soil and just put your waste in there the soil and worms break it all down good for the garden.

Or how about a compost heap in your garden? you can buy reasonable priced compost storage bins, (keeps it tidy and stops the smell) from 330L up to a 1000L in size.
Once the waste is decomposing you can start to spread it about the flower beds and over the law during the winter months all helps the soil good as its natural and free! :))
 
so far its all been going in the bin but changing to fleece for the bottom of the cage from this week so will hopefully be shaking poo over the veg patch to fertilise the soil and then if we get a compost we can put soiled hay in there (if the pig actually leave some of it instead of eating it all hehe) :))
 
I have since changed to vet bed, now i can keep my piggie poop in our composter! :))
 
I use shavings and hay and have around 8 sacks of waste per week.

Council wont allow it to be put in garden waste bins and anyway it wouldn't all fit rolleyes Used to take it to local household waste centre but they will now only allow 1 sack per person per week rolleyesrolleyes

So I now take it all once a week to the local composting facility - they actually seem quite pleased to have it..........................:{

Teresa xx
 
I put hay and shavings into our garden waste bin, the local council allows it. The newspapers go into our normal household rubbish.

However, during the winter months the garden waste bin only gets collected once(!) which obviously isn't enough, so we just put it into binliners, and once every week and a half we drive to the local recycling depot and empty them into the garden waste skip.
 
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