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How do you dispose of their waste? I started by throwing it in the trash. As my operation grew I began to burn the wood shavings (I live on a farm). Could this be harmful? Someone mentioned that their was a disease that was harbored in the feces that when inhaled was dangerous. Thanks in advanced guys!

It is true that the feces in large quantities can transmit a disease. Cryptococcosis is the most common culprit. Feces usually has to be in large quantities and dry so it can aerosol. There are also other fungal and bacterial infections that can arise from large quantities of any species' feces.

I clean my rodent tanks completely once a week. I collect all of the wood chippings and either throw them away in a closed plastic bag (this gives it a chance to solarize before the bag eventually degrades) or mulch it. It works very well in my yard around the flowers and trees. It needs to be composted for a while first though so the naturally occurring fungus spores the rodents carry around don't start growing in the garden though, lol. I have had some very interesting looking mushrooms pop up before...

I use cypress mulch with a little aspen in the nest corners. I sort out the occasionally paper towel, toilet paper roll, pig ear, or corn cob and either return those to the tank or throw them away.
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25 year old 0.1 from Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly, 2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

I use it as a compost mixture for my ornamental plants around the koi ponds. I do not use it for vegetable garden soil since I dont want to take a chance on catching something.

you live on a farm....comosting?.....make a pile of it for a year...then a second pile the second year....flip the first pile onto the second pile after flipping both piles over like once ....then you have a huge pile...start a second pile again...and flip all the times you can...?....

if not....see if there is a place that does composting in your area.....see if someone makes mulch from this...>?...they wold need to compost it maybe re-chip it through a shredder first also...

I was composting....forced to stop....

I now use two of the trash toters....full every week...25$ a month per toter.....600$ year for trash....normal houses are like 200 or less around here...more or less.....I get ? hundreds of pounds a week....so....$$$

.........it's all up to your township , laws, state agricultural dumping and composting laws....and trash people's rules and laws...

....fun huh?....
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........JY