Mmm dirt
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So what does fecal matter count as? For example my chickens eat the plants, then process it. Then the worm population skyrockets in the dirt where they live, and of course many of them get eaten by said chickens as well, but overall the population has still increased noticably.
Is the chicken's digestive track just considered part of the composting process? Or is that only once it hits the ground and started getting rained on
It's actually more complicated than I bet most Lemmy users can comment on, there are so many varieties of worms, different kinds of topsoil and interactions, and the idea that animal feces can vary wildly in composition and starts undergoing chemical changes as soon as it contacts air.
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Even worms don't "eat dirt" they eat biological material like decaying plant matter. And it depends what kind of "worm" we're talking about here. There are countless varieties that eat different things.
But animals that eat pure minerals directly from the Earth? Not many.
Yeah that whole niche was kinda taken over by the flora kingdom early on jokes on them though we have SpongeBob on our team! He lives in a pineapple showing the innate superiority of animals over plants.
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https://salticid.tumblr.com/post/143699141224/a-girl-talk-to-me
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I can only post a classic in response.
https://salticid.tumblr.com/post/143699141224/a-girl-talk-to-me
That was beautiful
