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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>I am busy with 3 large straw bale public
building, coating in a thick dipping of earth plaster and well worked in to the
bales, which we are protecting with 2 top coats of lime, sand, cow dung and
clay water plaster using a recipe I learnt from an old builder Herbert whom was
taught it by his grandfather for the plastering of the adobe buildings of his old
Moravian mission town.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>We are having a bit of difficulty getting
sufficient supplies of fresh cow dung near our site in Johannesburg, however we
have located a nearby feedlot, where the stuff is readily available only thing
is that I are wondering if this kind of cow dung would still be suitable ….as
I imagine it would have less fibre than cow dung sourced from free ranging
cattle. Apparently the cows at the feeding station are fed on about 10%
hay/grass and 90% grain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>What Herbert our old heritage builder tells
us is that it should be fine so long as they are fed some fibre and that indeed
he has made use of such cow dung before and one cannot even tell the difference.
For him the more important thing is that the cow dung is fresh …i.e. no
more than 3 days old. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>So anyhow I was wondering if any of you
lot out there have any with experience in using feed-lot cow dung for their
plasters and if you have come up against similar issues in terms of what the cows
get to eat affecting the quality of the cow dung before and if you have any
opinions/experience with this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>Incidentally the plaster mix that we get
with this receipt is particularly good. It is both very strong and extremely durable
as well as being particularly forgiving and really easy to work with as lime
plasters typically go. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>So if any of you are interested I could
email you a pdf document directly ( please respond to me separately on <a
href="mailto:andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za">andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za</a>
….do not reply to the whole mailing group) that I have written up on the
process…as I am not sure I can mail it to this address direct….unless
you want me upload it somewhere. Joyce I would be more than happy for you
to print it up in a forthcoming “Last Straw” magazine too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>cheers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>Andy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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