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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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! )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kathy Cochran<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>San Andreas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gennaro Brooks-Church<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> ArchiLogic@chaffyahoo.ca; Green Building<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] bovine booster<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br clear=all>Gennaro Brooks-Church<br><br>Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA<br><a href="http://www.EcoBrooklyn.com">www.EcoBrooklyn.com</a><br>22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:22 PM, RT <<a href="mailto:ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca">ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>natural building wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>materials such as cow manure have been used for centuries to increase the strength and durability of clay plasters.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Clark wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>You're not, um, bullshiting us on this, are you?<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Gennaro wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No bullshit. Horse manure too.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Reason for the difference between bovine and equine poo properties ?<br>Ruminate on it for a spell and I'm sure you'll come up with the answer y'self.<br><br>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.<br><span style='color:#888888'><br>-- <br>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom<br>( a prick-ly, expert BS-forker/flinger from way-back)<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a ><br>manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply"</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? 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