Shrooms from cow pastures

Jonnybgood35 said:

I’m pretty sure that is a Amanita Muscaria. I have heard that the effects are quite different from those of psilocybin.

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I believe you have to parboil them as well or you'll get sick as a dog.

Allbr said:

We're you you think they get the mushrooms that people buy in cans at the grocery store LoL

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What?

The button mushrooms in the store are grown in pasteurized highly refined compost that hasn't seen the inside of a cow since it was steam treated.

Please.

Agaricus are long ago domesticated.

canndo said:

What?

The button mushrooms in the store are grown in pasteurized highly refined compost that hasn't seen the inside of a cow since it was steam treated.

Please.

Agaricus are long ago domesticated.

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But at the end of it !! They still come from dung

dbz said:

You can get a good look at a mushroom by sticking your head up a bull's ass but Id rather take the butcher's word for it.

I messed something up.
Nevermind.

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No.... you got it perfect!

Hell yes, free shrooms. Only kind I’ve ever done are the ones we’ve picked out of fields. And I’ve made it this far.

As mentioned, grain fed cows. You know what they look like. Here in Florida, you could get them all day everyday.

I have an ex in Jupiter and once she had me run through her family’s small cow pasture to release a goat that got stuck in the fence. As I did, I saw shrooms everywhere! I came back and picked them when she wasn’t watching

Allbr said:

But at the end of it !! They still come from dung

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No, not really. Compost is not dung. Dung can carry several different varieties of pathogen and there is no way to clean that from raw agaricus compestrius.


That is not to say they won't grow in manure, just that these varieties are secondary decomposes, enjoying substrates that have already endured some other form of initial decomposition first.

Mushrooms in cow shit....picked garbage bags full of them...in Floida...

It's not just the cows and the shit it's the environment I think...we have cows n shit in WV but no mushrooms...

Look for a creamish colored mushroom with a tannish/orangish tint on the cap...bruises blueish/purpleish...and then have someone who knows abt these things verify your find before you consume...

Or you can just order a spore syringe from Sporeworks for 18$ and some ready made jars from Midwest Grow Kits for 20$ and in 6weeks of pretty much watching n waiting have a couple/few ozs of mushrooms that are guaranteed to be what your looking for...

Very informative thread @Wizzlebiz.

We picked mainly the Semilanceata aka Liberty Caps but there were some fields where we would find the Baeocystis which tended to be more potent. I still have an old book I bought back in the late seventies. Minus the cover.

They don’t only grow in cow manure. If the conditions are right you can find them around.

Drumminghead said:

They don’t only grow in cow manure. If the conditions are right you can find them around.

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I found a single shroom , in my raised bed out back that resembled the horizontal pic above . I was not sure enough to eat it though.

Only way I pick anything.....it first starts here.


A few times when I was much younger we did find some really great mushrooms.

tkufoS said:

I found a single shroom , in my raised bed out back that resembled the horizontal pic above . I was not sure enough to eat it though.

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There are a bunch of lookalikes. You don't ever want to eat any mushroom if you're not experienced in identification. Some will kill you or leave you an the liver transplant waiting list. You were smart to not eat it. And going forward don't eat any mushroom until you have learned how to identify them. Be safe.