You can eat it, and I don't think they're are any effects if your animals eat it. The vast number I've been culling and my speed/time don't work out though, so we use them for feeding the coyotes and other critters. Usually only takes a night for them to disappear so long as the birds themselves weren't showing severe symptoms. It's interesting to notice that if a bird is sick enough with the virus that they no longer can stand, nothing will take them. Even out of 6 or 7 birds, if one was that sick, it will be the only one untouched the next morning.
