Okay this may be an out there question but i raise and breed some exotic pets as well as my homestead livestock an one of them are my ball pythons i breed. To reduce cost of feeding my snakes i raise rats as well and in raising rats i change the bedding material every week thats 10 tubs of pine shavings for a reference i go through one of those compressed blocks of pine shaving from
tractor supply about once a month not a ton but a good bit. Now i had just been dumping it into my brother
beef cattle pen as they need bedding every day an this way it gets mixed in and used in the fields no waste, doesnt really help bedding his cattle since its used an only about a trashcan worth every 2 weeks but again this way it gets mixed in a recycled. So my question when im composting i mix in old scrapes and grass trimmings but the
carbon is where im alway lacking due to mixing leaves in the fall is about all the carbon i get so would mixing in the mine shavings work? they are a shaved kiln dried shaving i was just unsure about using them in my personal
compost which does get used in the garden. I mean my rats are clean but the idea of their scat an
urine in the compost just seems weird even tho i mix in goat an rabbit scat when im cleaning the other pens. Any thoughts?