My Dad had a compost-barrel when i was a kid. it was a 55 gallon drum with a door cut in the bottom. and a lid for the top. we put just about every thing in there. The land the house i grew up in was built on was volcanic clay. so nothing grew. when i was really young my dad and i would go to his friends ranches and clean out the stalls for manure. and till that into the soil. after a few years of regular manure deposits, and compost from the barrel we had the best garden on the block. we could grow just about anything.

my dad would toss the dog poop into the barrel and when he was doing the bi-yearly manure rototill he would till it straight into the ground.

I do remember he would only scoop the compost out of the bottom of the barrel during his bi-yearly manure rototill. so maybe the large volume of the barrel combined with the long period of time broke down the poo.

We also had a bucket in the kitchen for the compost. what really works good for a kitchen bucket is one of those plastic gallon ice cream buckets. they are just the right size so you only have to empty them twice a week and they have a lid so nothing gets really stinky.

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