What do you do with your chinnie waste?

[AZChins]

When I lived in a house with actual landscaping I would put the chinnie waste (shavings, hay, poopies) out in the flower beds as mulch...it was very pretty...everyone liked my lighter colored mulch.

Now that we live in the middle of nowhere right next to "I really don't care what the yard looks like", AZ I have a fairly sizable compost heap out about 100 yards from the house. It normally attracts the open range cattle...they love the hay cubes and hay and even eat the pellets and shavings. Some mornings there will be a bunch of Javelina with their little ones rooting through and making a mess...occasionally taking a nap in the wet shavings after a rain.

I know that the deer like it, too. I see them bounce away across the desert when I come out of the house headed towards the compost heap to add more buckets of waste. There's deer droppings out there...

Until recently I didn't know how much they liked it. Here's photographic evidence of deer enjoying chinnie waste...

 

[mishellyshel]

unfortunately i dont have a compost and my neighbor is a stones throw.........so my waste is just trash.

that is an adorable picture! it honestly makes me jealous that i live in such a rural area and only have squirels, birds and bunnies in my back yard.

also............what is a Javelina?? remember............jersey girl here!

 

[tunes]

I either take it to the dump or the farm. At the farm, the deer get in it all the time. Here at the house, before it goes to the dump, squirrels seem to like it!

 

[AZChins]

Javelina is like desert wild boar. They're mean and they like to root through and destroy anything. I planted some flowers...what the cattle didn't eat the javelina pulled clear out of the ground... Don't be jealous of that! LOL I can't grow anything outside because of the wildlife. What the fuzzies don't get the giant grasshoppers eat down to nothing....or the caterpillars destroy....or the lack of rain dries to a crisp....

 

[mishellyshel]

okay you made me feel better............i dont like bugs that hop, especially giant ones!
and i dont like mean animals, especially of the boar variety!
but the deer is really cute!

i think between the two of you, there is enough chinnie waste to fill a dumpster!

 

[chinsNdobermans]

One of my neighbors takes a bag of it every now and then for mulch. Otherwise it goes up on the back acres for compost.

 

[Diamond Dreams]

I dump mine in my parents compost pile which eventually ends up in the garden. Shavings alone are wonderful for growing root veggies because they are soft and they hold in mosture so you don't have to water near as much in the summer.

 

[Ruby]

I stick my chin waste out in the garden and flower beds during the summer, but during the winter it gets thrown away.

 

[addictedtochins]

Oh, she is adorable! Look at the food on her nose. She needs a dust bath LOL. I want to see the wild piggies.
We have 5 acres but I just take it to the dump.

 

[TheNobleFight]

Sorry about the grainy photos, I was trying not to get attacked.
These are Arizona Javelina!!!! Eating my 2 hour carved pumpkin last year.
They knocked over a planter and I thought someone was trying to steal the car. Imagine my surprise when I found these on the porch. They travel in packs, and you can not see it but, there are three more standing guard for coyotes in the street.

 

[naturegirl240]

Wow the only animals we have show up in our yard are squirrels!

 

[AZChins]

Yep...that's them! Although, they look a little smaller than the ones around here. It's probably just the pictures, but I think it shows their true purpose. They're little evil bandits with stealing and destruction on their minds.... Thanks so much for the pictures!

They love pumpkins and anything else really. One of my customers left her hay in the garage one night and they left the door open a bit. Well, guess what? The javelina got in and got everything edible. I actually never have to throw out any kitchen waste because the javelina will eat it if I put it out on the compost heap.

 

[TheNobleFight]

Oh no... In the desert everything is starving or in drought. Wildlife comes looking for food and water. And since a large portion of the community's are built around lakes and golfcourses there is a good chance you will find them in your yard. Susan on the other hand, lives in the WILD WEST! If she is not shooing off illegal aliens, she is constantly keeping her little dogs from getting snatched up by coyotes.
I have pictures of bobcats/lynx on the golf course... And a picture of my neighbors dog fighting off a mountain lion.

 

[Chibigirl]

I live in the Jersey suburbs and also in a town where your neighbor would be the type of person to call and complain to the township about your "colorful mulch" So unfortunately all mine just goes in the trash.

 

[Riven]

We don't have cool wild pigs, but the rabbits here love to pick through, we have a large garden, in face we just hauled bags to the garden yesterday. We use it for mulch in the summer and spread it all over in the winter then till it into the dirt in the spring!

 

[menagerie]

Mine goes into the curbside green recycling bins. The county picks them up every other week and makes compost out of yard waste to reduce the amount of stuff that goes into our landfill.

 

[chinclub]

I wish I could use mine for mulch but huge mushrooms grow where ever it is dumped. So I have a mulch pile at the edge of the woods to dump mine.

 

[Bostongirl'sChin75]

I wish I could use mine for mulch but huge mushrooms grow where ever it is dumped. So I have a mulch pile at the edge of the woods to dump mine.

It does that here too, so I do the same thing you do. The wildlife loves it, as does my daschund that roams the woods when we let him out to go potty.

 

[starleomach]

I just throw it out at this point. I used to mulch it at my parents house

 

[Carol~Anne]

I sweep up as much poop, hay, shavings and debris as possible, put it in a bag and give it as a present to my husband and he uses it in his compost. He's obsessed with having the best soil ever. If I accidentally put something in the bag that isn't compostable he lets me know about it in a bad way. :impatient: