Can you burry chickens in your garden?

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

I will always
A. Bury them, my preferred method
B. Throw them in the bin, as much as I hate it... sometimes I don’t get time to do that

 

[Clubber1234]

I will always
A. Bury them, my preferred method
B. Throw them in the bin, as much as I hate it... sometimes I don’t get time to do that

I ALWAYS bury my chickens!

 

[Clubber1234]

I ALWAYS bury my chickens!

I mean the dead ones

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I wouldnt cairn it but a friend of mine burried a goose in his backyard i told him he should of turned it to ashess first

How hot and how long would that take?

We have strict air quality control guidelines here in California... and I BET they don't care what sort of excuse you have. Of course I DO understand the need for regulation... with the world's ever expanding population and too many missing common sense.

Boy if feathers burning smell anything like hair burning... Pass.

 

[IamRainey]

I never put them in my compost pile. Even with the best practices, the bones will not decay and the feathers, beaks, and toes take quite a while. My chix have recently dug up my 20 year old rabbit cemetery under the apple trees. All the bones and teeth have needed "rehoming!"

Naturally you should do it your way. Not disputing that! But I put bones in my compost pile all the time. I put in clam and oyster shells. It's true that they break down very slowly -- although poultry bones would decay much faster than, say, beef bones. When these very dense things need more time I simply move them to the next pile I'm building. EVERYTHING decomposes on time. And when you do encounter a bone in your finished pile, it's clean, odorless and merely another object that needs more time. Meanwhile, they're adding valuable minerals to your humus.

 

[cmom]

I bury any birds that I find dead. I bury them 3 to 4 feet deep in their pens. They have huge pens. I was burying them at least 4 ft. deep in our field but the coyotes would try to dig them up. They don't try to get into the pens.

 

[WunnySharbit]

Naturally you should do it your way. Not disputing that! But I put bones in my compost pile all the time. I put in clam and oyster shells. It's true that they break down very slowly -- although poultry bones would decay much faster than, say, beef bones. When these very dense things need more time I simply move them to the next pile I'm building. EVERYTHING decomposes on time. And when you do encounter a bone in your finished pile, it's clean, odorless and merely another object that needs more time. Meanwhile, they're adding valuable minerals to your humus.

I used to put bones in the compost, but since I've started emptying and using the bins every 4-6 years, I don't do it quite so often. If I do, I usually just throw the bones into the new bin and let 'er rip. However, people with dogs or scavengers may have issues initially (that's why I stopped -- no more free smorgasboard attracting nasties to my yard!) Also, our city started a "green" can that takes bones, pizza boxes, egg cartons, etc to compost (collected by massive petroleum-powered trucks - go fig )