Uses for Chicken Blood

[patandchickens]

If you have a pile of high-carbon low-nitrogen materials you are trying to compost, like coop or stall cleanings that (as is usually the case) have too much shavings/straw in relation to the amount of poo, or a big pile of wood chippings, or a big pile of fall leaves, pour the blood all through that. If you put water in the bucket BEFORE you bleed the chickens into it, the blood will not clot and will be much easier to pour all over/through the compost pile. This will make your high-carbon materials compost MUCH MUCH faster and more thoroughly

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[MsRiderUp]

Hate to state the obvious, but won't that attract predators? We have racoons and bears where we live. . . I've used commercial bone meal in my organic gardening before --- not sure how to use the blood. Even trying to dry it would be really smelly . . .

 

[QueenMisha]

You can make ice cream with it. It apparently has nearly identical properties to eggs when used in cooking, and there are several chocolate ice cream recipes out there that use blood in replacement of eggs. It's supposed to be quite good. Chicken blood is actually pretty sought after for blood recipes, as it is the mildest and easiest to work with; but it's quite hard to find for most people, so pig's blood is the common alternative.

 

[MMinWA]

i was thinking about that stupid movie from the 80s, with lisa bonet..caused a huge deal over her bathing in chicken blood or something..
i cant remember.

Angelheart