What do you do with your chinnie waste?

[ChinchillasByDesign]

It becomes mulch and garden compost here.

 

[Parkerspetchins]

That is a great picture!! I'm jealous of the wildlife...

 

[eroomlorac]

Those Javalina's were kind of cute but I imagine they are destructive.

I put my chinnie waste in the flower and veggie gardens all year round. In the winter, it just makes it's way down to ground level when the snow melts. LOL Aren't you glad you're not my neighbors???

 

[Newt]

the local council here doesnt do a curbside organic collection, so I actually have to pay a private company take away my used chinchilla and guinea pig wood shavings and hay......which they then compost and sell for profit!!

It sucks that I have to pay for this service, but it gives me more peace of mind then if I were to simply bin it and have it taken to the landfill.

 

[menagerie]

the local council here doesnt do a curbside organic collection, so I actually have to pay a private company take away my used chinchilla and guinea pig wood shavings and hay......which they then compost and sell for profit!!

It sucks that I have to pay for this service, but it gives me more peace of mind then if I were to simply bin it and have it taken to the landfill.

It's not actually free here. They charge for weekly trash and recycling pick up in our property taxes.

 

[addictedtochins]

We don't even have trash service here. We have to drive to a few different approved sites to drop off our trash

 

[Newt]

It's not actually free here. They charge for weekly trash and recycling pick up in our property taxes.

yeah we pay for ordinary rubbish removal in our half-yearly council rates.

It just seems odd to me that there's no council-organised composting service, given the "clean and green" image that the NZ government is so keen to maintain. I think it were council run then more people would recycle unwanted organics rather than throwing them into the regular bin....I'd much rather pay a fee to the city council than to a private contractor.

I'd compost it myself, but my "garden" is so tiny I'd fill it up with woodchips in a matter of a few weeks!!!

 

[Dragonflye]

In the winter mine goes out with the trash. In the spring, summer, fall- out on the compost pile at the edge of our "wooded area".

 

[Twizted]

I collect as much bedding/poo/waste as I can and dump it in our other wooded acre. We have all kinds of deer, but even though I can't see them get into it I've noticed there is a lack of hay among the shavings every time I go out there so I'm assuming they are getting into it. I even throw away any extra feed that mine don't use up before I get a fresher bag and toss it out there for them.. one time I had to throw out 30+ pounds of feed and it was gone in 2 days. lol

 

[chinchillalover0927]

i give the lovely flowers some poop on the farm lol

 

[AmandaDi]

I live in the city... mine goes right to the trash!

 

[Marie5656]

Mine goes in the trash as well. But one thing I do is, when I get to the last of the hay in my bin, where there is mainly tiny bits or brown pieces, I dump it out onder the evergreen tree in my yard...a mini feast for the squirrels.

 

[Megan]

Winter mine goes out in the trash. Any other time of the year it goes to our compost pile, veggie gardens, and my neighbors veggie gardens... We have had better veggies growing then him lately, and he thinks the "secret to it" is the chinchilla bedding..so now takes whatever we don't use LOL--any left overs will prob. go up to the farm now, instead of going to trash.