ok, so I've seen a dog poo wormery at: http://www.dogpoowormery.com think it would be great for my 2 greyhounds. Has anyone got any experience with these items?

I looked at the website and decided to do it the cheap way, I got a compost bin for £10 from the council and 100 worms from ebay for less than a fiver and it seems to be working. If the bin does start to smell a bit I put some grass cuttings in too and I know the worms are moving around because in a few days the fresh grass will have older compost matter mixed in.

I thought that worms would only eat green "matter" and that dog poo is too meaty for them?

I have composted dog poo covering with ash and leaves to keep out smells.  We used an old divan bed frame, we stopped adding to it for about 6 months and when dug out it was the most lovely compost (definitely non smelly) and lots of garden worms in it.

Poor worms! :-)

So what you do in the winter without grass cuttings ?

Veg peelings and shredded paper?

We would have to have a lot with three labs ! They normally poo in the morning when let out first thing then after their dinner in the evening rather than store it up for walks !

I've seen Dog Poo Wormeries listed on Ebay.
I have a feeling - could be wrong! - that it's a certain type of worm.

you are right that it's a certain type of worm, they use tiger worms in wormeries. Dog poo is definitely not a good diet for worms and worms will either leave if they don't like the menu. or if they can't leave they die. There are lots of DIY templates for dog poo digesters, most of which seem to be variations on an old bin, with holes in the bottom, or all over. In the underground version the whole garbage can is sunk below the ground onto a pebble soakaway with only a little piece of PVC piping showing above ground like a periscope. Drop the poo down the pipe, add a septic tank starter chemical and the leachate will not bother anyone.

I tried a DIY wormery in a bin - not a dog poo one ;)   and at first it went well, then after a month or two suddenly they all died :(    Seems the bin ones don't have enough air circulation :(  Also, you have to empty everything out to access the good stuff underneath - a bit icky if it's dog poo you're dealing with ;)

Now I have a 'proper' Worm City Wormery and all is going really well, the worms are doing their thing and not dying :-D   No smells and I can just use a bottom stage to collect and leave the worms undisturbed on the top layers - much easier to deal with :-D

They use three types of worms, the brandlings, reds and another bigger worm - Dendras , this way you know they are working on everything :)

Wormeries work best when worms haver space to get away from the things they don't like: citrus, allium family, wet medium and so on. It also doesn't help if you overload them--if you have lots of kitchen waste you'd be better off with an anaerobic system (closed composter topping up kitchen waste with grass clippings.

I used a homemade 4' x 4' new zealand box, a pallet in the bottom laid with newspaper and kitchen waste was laid down on a grid system in rotation so that worms weren't overfaced. I several of these up, including one for my son's primary school. That was the only one that failed--when I had a look at it they'd been throwing plastic wrappings and leftover ice cream into it :-O!

Worth knowing that grated carrot or soaked bread is a food greatly appreciated by baby worms, worms are very hard working and they deserve a treat too!

They also LOVE! Melon skins and banana skins :-D   Ours practically leap out of the box for them :-D  

We don't give citrus or allium of any description, no biggie it just goes in the waste bin, we have to give the council something

I met my husband online -his screen name was Worm Man. :) Had about 50 000 worms -they do have several different types in wormeries, not just one (although obviously not mixed together). He no longer has them but at one point he did try dog poo in just one of his tubs -killed them all off. I remember tea bags was one thing used a lot as feed. Plus of course horse manure and left over food from dinner. He always reckoned the dog poo killing the worms had something to do with dogs being meat eaters seeing as horse manure works.

TBH I don't really know anything about worms or compost, all I can say is that the worms are definitely still alive in my bin as I can see the stuff being mixed up if I look in every few days, so something in there is moving around :-)  I'll carry on with this bin till it's about half full then start a new one I think, that way I don't have the problem of digging through the yucky stuff to get to the good compost. Then when I've used the compost in the first bin it will be time to start filling that up again while the other one does it's thing. I'm am amazed at how little smell there is from it, it's really just the fresh poos you can smell when you put in and I can't smell the bin at all walking past it so I think it is working.

One piece of advice that is given on all the information I have read is NOT to use Dog Poo Compost for your fruit and vegetables ;)  just use it in your flower borders :)

chaumsong,

I'd still be using industrial strength Marigolds to handle it LOL  

Ahh thanks Dill :-)  Luckily I don't have any fruit or veg, so the compost will only be used for the flower pots... the dog poo will soon smell like roses :-)