What do you do with the guts after you process?

[hennypenny99]

We live way out in the country so we "take off" our guts & junk. We have about 200 acres so we just drive way off in the pasture and leave it in the woods. The coyotes take care of it for us. You can also use it for bait as I saw someone mention. My dad used to bait the lines with it and bring home catfish - Yum!

 

[rainplace]

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We oil our buckets and partially fill with wood chips or hay and compost it when we're done. The oil makes for easy bucket cleanup.

 

[crperdue]

Anything I don't eat goes in here:

They turn unwanted chicken parts, infertle or cracked eggs, garden waste and table scraps into high quality pork. These are Guinea Hogs and max out around 200 lbs. They do a fine job tilling the chicken litter to prevent capping and turning it into compost.

 

[Salt and Light]

Reading all the different disposal methods and reasons is interesting.

I live in Central Florida on 5 acres. At the end of the day, I dump everything at the back of my property. It only last a couple days.

 

[Tracydr]

I feed the feet and organs to the dogs. Everything else goes in the trash. If I had a hot compost I would compost it but right now I'm composting in a lasagna garden. I will put smaller pieces of meat in the bottom, well buried but not large amounts. One or two chicken bits can be added and deeply buried, covering well with plenty of pine straw if I only butcher one or two birds.
There is surprisingly no flies or smell when I do this, even in the lasagna garden. It must disappear fast, too. I've never dug up any bits of meat or recognizable chicken carcass when I've composted bones before.

 

[colebarnhart]

Great Fish Bait!

 

[GordieH]

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Um, nobody is getting MY chicken's feet. They are the "in" thing right now among high end chefs and people like Martha Stewart for making soup stocks. High in flavor and gelatin. I'm definitely going to try it, despite the comments I know I'm going to get from the family.

My great-aunt Catt used to clean, peel and fry the feet. Not much meat on them. But they are crunchy to gnaw on. LOL. But they make some GREAT chicken stock. I would think you could even boil the heads.

 

[GordieH]

The guts, or entrails for the weaker stomached ones

, could be fed to your dogs as well. That is the part that dogs go for first when they kill an animal or eat a carcass. Don't overdo it though. Some dogs like wallowing their heads in the guts. Chickel #5 I guess.

The only precaution to feeding the raw offal, my big word of the day, to your dogs or cats is that there is a chance they will associate the taste with the live birds in the flock.

 

[munsellspoultry]

Be very careful if you bury the guts....animals will dig them up if you do not bury them deep enough. Our best advice is to get a hold of a rendering company to pick them up. Darling International picks ours up....a great company with amazing employees to deal with.

 

[erinchelsea]

We ended up taking everything waaaaay out into the bean field & dumped it. Don't think the dog found it, either- I think I would have noticed the stench if he would have! The blood went into the ground but it was on the edge of the corn field in the back of our property- no biggie.

Hopefully next year we will have hogs to feed it to!