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RE: I suppose I should first explain my screw-up

Thanks @geekpowered I know I can use it, but there is a lot in a name, and I just didn't think about it enough. As usual. I like having different profiles anyhow, because we all have different profiles in our heads. Well, most of us do. I like talking to Mennonites and drug dealers the same, but I don't talk to them both the same way. Are you bagging what I'm mowing? ;)

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I don't bag. I let the clipping decompose on the lawn. It's better for the lawn's health.

But if I do bag, I put it all in a compost pile, so it decomposes and I can grow lots of pretty things, and things I can eat.

That's the best answer. Our chickens look after the grass pretty well. It's pretty patchy anyhow with our projects. Our three composters and the worm bins are full right now. Just dumping in a pile until spring.

Have you looked into feeding your chickens with compost? I saw some info about it, but never had much interest in raising chickens. Maybe quale, or peacocks.

Yeah, they love picking through it for worms and bugs. It can't feed them totally, but I've seen some commercial outfits that have 100+ hens in their compost pile. In the summer, mine free range and eat all kinds of grass and critters. Last summer one stole a mouse from the cat and ate it.