it doesn't work that way, especially in CT.

If you lived in Florida or a hot state or even in your own state, you could feed cattle sporeprints in March and maybe in the fall you might get a few mushrooms but only a few. And then again they would not return the next year.

There are over 178 mushrooms throughtout the world which have psilocine and psilocybine in them and only about 25 or so of them grow from cow shit.

And the cow shit used to grow cubensis at home is usually pasturized , meaning it has been heated and treated to be rid of all contamination and spores of everything so that when you innoculate it with spawn there is no other bacteria present other than the spawn you are innoculating it with.

Mjshroomer

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If the cow dung is old - GO FOR IT. I live in the Northeast also and do it all the time outdoors (Shaggy manes...). I wish I had open access to a pasture. The best source of substrate is the field.

If it is a bit fresh give it a twenty minute hot water path then innoculate with cakes/grain in a shady spot, cover and keep moist (The Northeast is getting so much rain this summer that mommy nature is keeping the watering end of the deal fairly well).

Happy harvest!

In a way this is stupid since the prints are worth moree than the amount of mushrooms which he had growing. And it always rains in Seattle most of the time.

I also find it hard to believe that someone puts manure out and gets the shrooms growing.

Even the Thai farmers get theirs from taking shit where the shrooms are already and moving it to a shaded area and watering them with more manure and they only get a few.

This person above must have innoculated his manure because they want decomposed manure which is four to six weeks old for shrooms to fruit. The manure would have to have spores already in it for it to get the growth and as mentioned above that would be after the fresh manure has decomposed.

I am talking thirty years experience watching them grow in most manners possible.

To the person in CT>

Go ahead and see what happens. But i really think you will not get anything in the long run, especially where you are.

Mjshroomer.

Ru, old harden horse dung is the best, especially if it comes from a pasture where the horses graze.

Fairly fresh horse dung works also, but it is best to give it a hot water bath.

Forget using even remotley fresh cow dung - its gots to be old. Stick with horses. You will be amazed! Do a search, plenty of threads detailing the specifics.

Happy harvest

Good luck.