Chicken poop shrooms!!! - Wildlife Gardeners

Equilibrium · 08-03-2012, 08:47 AM

I've got this super duper "secret" project going on out in my front yard. I've been laying out paper grocery bags and topping em with pine shavings and chicken poop. I woke up to a forest of shrooms 1 morning. It was eerily beautiful. By the time I got home from work.... the show was gone.

havalotta · 08-03-2012, 01:30 PM

WOW Wonder if they were anything edible...Do another run!

Equilibrium · 08-03-2012, 02:11 PM

If jpdenk told me they were edible and how to prepare em.... I'd probably try a few but.... gutt tells me these aren't gonna be that tasty so I'll just keep spreading the poops around every time I muck out the chicken coop.... it'll be greeeeeeeeat mushroom compost someday!!!

biigblueyes · 08-03-2012, 08:52 PM

Gotta be good stuff - chicken poo PLUS mushroom stuff. . . you'd pay a fortune for that with an organic label on it - and you grew it yourself!

jpdenk · 08-07-2012, 09:25 AM

They look like some kind of Coprinus, but I can't say for certain which species. There are a few species of Coprinus reported to grow on animal droppings.

Definitely not something to try eating without a 100% positive ID, and I'd be more than a bit hesitant about eating mushrooms growing on unsterilized dung, but that's just me.

That's a very interesting list of tags on this posting.

Equilibrium · 08-13-2012, 02:45 PM

I'll have more chicken poops to spread out in about a month or so. I can't wait to see if anything springs up like what happened the last time I spread out chicken poops. Itwas really exciting finding all those shrooms out front!!!
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I spread out some rabbit poops wondering if anything would spring up outa those and so far no go.

havalotta · 08-13-2012, 02:57 PM

Hope it won't be WEEDS....I just shot the shIIIIIIIt all over the new bed.
Your rabbit poo poo (Which Equill was soooooooooooo kind to deliver to me perfuming her car in the long haul) AND a bag of that chickitiy doo doo...
Boy oh boy.... I better get out of dodge for a while the yard smells like a a farm! Toodle looooooooooo

biigblueyes · 08-13-2012, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by havalotta

Boy oh boy.... I better get out of dodge for a while the yard smells like a a farm! Toodle looooooooooo

You say that like it's a bad thing!

havalotta · 08-16-2012, 12:31 PM

Noooo It's GOOD!!!!! I don't mind it at all but the city folk here might....
They don't understand the makings of a good bed...It's all about WHAT you put into them before you start planting!

Equilibrium · 08-17-2012, 02:45 PM

Ummm.... don't be getting any ideas biig.... no wascally wabbit poops for you and no more for hava unless..... she wants to drive home with em in her car!!! There is like no way I will ever drive in a car again with wabbit poops even if they're in the trunk.

Chickens in the back seat.... no problem!!! Wabbit poops..... no way!!!
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Pssst.... I mucked out the chicken coop this morning and I spread out more chicken poops! Think I should water em with a hose and see what happens or just let em sit

08-03-2012, 08:47 AM	#1
Equilibrium The Pantyhose Princess Join Date: Dec 2008	Chicken poop shrooms!!! I've got this super duper "secret" project going on out in my front yard. I've been laying out paper grocery bags and topping em with pine shavings and chicken poop. I woke up to a forest of shrooms 1 morning. It was eerily beautiful. By the time I got home from work.... the show was gone. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

08-03-2012, 01:30 PM	#2
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	WOW Wonder if they were anything edible...Do another run! __________________ The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer

08-03-2012, 02:11 PM	#3
Equilibrium The Pantyhose Princess Join Date: Dec 2008	If jpdenk told me they were edible and how to prepare em.... I'd probably try a few but.... gutt tells me these aren't gonna be that tasty so I'll just keep spreading the poops around every time I muck out the chicken coop.... it'll be greeeeeeeeat mushroom compost someday!!! __________________ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

08-03-2012, 08:52 PM	#4
biigblueyes WG Facilitator Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA	Gotta be good stuff - chicken poo PLUS mushroom stuff. . . you'd pay a fortune for that with an organic label on it - and you grew it yourself! __________________ My yarden and I lean a little to the wild side.

08-07-2012, 09:25 AM	#5
jpdenk Heron Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tinley Park, Illinois, USA	They look like some kind of Coprinus, but I can't say for certain which species. There are a few species of Coprinus reported to grow on animal droppings. Definitely not something to try eating without a 100% positive ID, and I'd be more than a bit hesitant about eating mushrooms growing on unsterilized dung, but that's just me. That's a very interesting list of tags on this posting. __________________ Click here for a Picasa album of some of my nature photos.

08-13-2012, 02:45 PM	#6
Equilibrium The Pantyhose Princess Join Date: Dec 2008	I'll have more chicken poops to spread out in about a month or so. I can't wait to see if anything springs up like what happened the last time I spread out chicken poops. Itwas really exciting finding all those shrooms out front!!! -- I spread out some rabbit poops wondering if anything would spring up outa those and so far no go. __________________ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

08-13-2012, 02:57 PM	#7
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Hope it won't be WEEDS....I just shot the shIIIIIIIt all over the new bed. Your rabbit poo poo (Which Equill was soooooooooooo kind to deliver to me perfuming her car in the long haul) AND a bag of that chickitiy doo doo... Boy oh boy.... I better get out of dodge for a while the yard smells like a a farm! Toodle looooooooooo __________________ The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer

08-16-2012, 12:31 PM	#9
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Noooo It's GOOD!!!!! I don't mind it at all but the city folk here might.... They don't understand the makings of a good bed...It's all about WHAT you put into them before you start planting! __________________ The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer

08-17-2012, 02:45 PM	#10
Equilibrium The Pantyhose Princess Join Date: Dec 2008	Ummm.... don't be getting any ideas biig.... no wascally wabbit poops for you and no more for hava unless..... she wants to drive home with em in her car!!! There is like no way I will ever drive in a car again with wabbit poops even if they're in the trunk. Chickens in the back seat.... no problem!!! Wabbit poops..... no way!!! -- Pssst.... I mucked out the chicken coop this morning and I spread out more chicken poops! Think I should water em with a hose and see what happens or just let em sit __________________ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

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