[Greenbuilding] bovine booster

[Kathy Cochran]

Most people who ever entertained the idea of building a straw bale house
knows this to be true!  And that's no bull!  And horse manure only goes thru
one stomach, not four like a cow has, so it is commonly found to have
undigested pieces of straw, hay, oats, and the like in it.  (Perhaps that is
the source of an earlier list that said that a new earthen floor started
sprouting grass! )

 

Kathy Cochran

San Andreas, CA

 

From: greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Gennaro
Brooks-Church
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:33 PM
To: ArchiLogic at chaffyahoo.ca; Green Building
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] bovine booster

 

I think the choice of cow dung vs horse manure is also a geographic one. In
India cow dung is abundant and they use it for walls, floors and firewood.
It works really well. I on the other hand don't live near any cows here in
Brooklyn. There is a horse stable down the road. We are working on an
earthen floor and horse manure is a major ingredient. Horse hair too. Human
hair too - lots of hair salons here in NY! How about that for local green
building - NY green builders using human hair because is the most readily
available.


Gennaro Brooks-Church

Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
www.EcoBrooklyn.com
22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231




On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:22 PM, RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:


natural building wrote:

materials such as cow manure have been used for centuries to increase the
strength and durability of clay plasters.

 

Clark wrote:

You're not, um, bullshiting us on this, are you?

 

Gennaro wrote:

No bullshit. Horse manure too.

 

I looked in on the GB List archive because I've not been receiving messages
in my email for a week or more and was curious to see what's been flying
about... and I found this "poo" thread and the "Stubby driving" thread.

Needless to say, I immediately carried out the hoodoovoodoomumbojumbo ritual
thanking the CyberGremlins for messing up my GB List email reception for the
past while.

That being said, I think that it would be useful to mention to Wannabe Poo
Enthusiasts (WannaPE's) that the plaster-enhancing properties ( I wouldn't
describe them as being "strength and durability" so much) of bovine manure
are *NOT* the same as those provided by equine manure.

Anyone who has flung dung (ie cow patties, horse chestnuts, deer nuggets,
bear torpedos etc) could have attested to this even without having ever
hoisted a handful of an earthen plaster.

Reason for the difference between bovine and equine poo properties ?
Ruminate on it for a spell and I'm sure you'll come up with the answer
y'self.

And for those aspiring NaturalPlasterers who find this talk about animal
excrement as admixtures less than appealing, you might want to have a look
at what the juice from the prickly pear cactus has to offer.

-- 
=== * ===
Rob Tom
( a prick-ly, expert BS-forker/flinger from way-back)
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
< A r c h i L o g i c  at  Y a h o o  dot  c a >
manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply"

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