Cuttlefish Bone ?

Any good as a fertilizer or is it just keratin, in which case we could powder it & tell the chinese its an aphrodisiac.

 

Just got back from West Bexington, loads of them there too, along with the peat from the old forest, seems like it might be worth a gardening trip as well as fishing.

 

It's mainly calcium carbonate.
It makes quite a good fine abrasive for polishing - try rubbing up a tarnished piece of copper with it or removing light scratches from the paintwork on your Rolls Royce:WINK1:. It also was once used as a polishing agent in toothpaste.

I don't know if it would be of much use as a fertiliser per se, but it would probably work like lime to reduce acidity.

 

Cheers Dave, thats the answer I was hoping for but was too scared to google it thru fear of dissapointment

Thats very good as our alluvial soil is lacking in lime, I clean all the trowels & buckets from my lime mortar work on the veg plot but it still needs more.

The bones are very light so it won't notice if I fill the tackle bag on the way back. The peat on the other hand is a bit heavier, might get a donkey for that.

 

How did you know I had a Rolls Royce

 

I couldn't imagine you driving anything else

 

Ziggy, you could try and sell them to a local pet shop. Budgies and parrakeets love to nibble on them.

 

Tell you what Armandii...........the parrakeets would tear the Rolls to shreds! I'm talking from experience......no not the Rolls, my mum used to breed them.

 

Parrots and parrakeets can do amazing amounts of damage Armandii. Although my mum bred them in aviaries, a pet African Grey parrot she had in a large cage indoors was given large chicken bones to keep it amused, it reduced them to splinters.

 

Beautiful plumage though.