What do you do with the remains?

[MKetter]

Well, I processed my first bird today. Wasn’t as bad as I expected. I thought I might get a little queasy, but I didn’t.

So how do you dispose of all that remains? No compost pile. Throw them out in the yard for wild animals to eat?

 

[Penpal]

Do you have dogs or cats. Organ meat is good for them. If you throw it out for wild animals, you will attract wild animals that will eat your chickens.

 

[DemeterAD9]

Dig a hole in the garden or put in the trash. If you decide to burry, about two feet deep is typically good enough to prevent most critters from digging it up. If you decide to toss in the trash, you can throw it in the freezer then add it to the garbage bag the day before collection so it doesn’t smell too bad for you or the collectors.

 

[Beau plus penny]

Well, I processed my first bird today. Wasn’t as bad as I expected. I thought I might get a little queasy, but I didn’t.

So how do you dispose of all that remains? No compost pile. Throw them out in the yard for wild animals to eat?

i could never ever do meat birds i love animals too much.

 

[fowltemptress]

I feed the scraps to the chickens; they know to hang around while I'm processing and will even drink up the blood if I collect it in a dish for them. Sometimes I'll boil rice in the blood and feed that to my animals as a treat. The organs I don't like to eat and the feet are turned into dog treats. After I'm done boiling the bones to make stock I give those back to the chickens. Once those bones are picked clean I bury them in the garden. I don't know what on earth I'd do with the feathers if I didn't have a compost pile.

 

[MKetter]

i could never ever do meat birds i love animals too much.

That’s the way my brother, whose birds these are, is. He can have six chickens but no roosters in town where he lives. He got a male in a straight run purchase, unaware it was straight run. I have been raising them until he finishes building his coop. It’s been 20 weeks now. Three of the six girls have recently begun to lay eggs. The male had to go. It is weird now not hearing his crowing or seeing him out back. But I now have an experience I didn’t have before.

 

[MKetter]

I feed the scraps to the chickens; they know to hang around while I'm processing and will even drink up the blood if I collect it in a dish for them. Sometimes I'll boil rice in the blood and feed that to my animals as a treat. The organs I don't like to eat and the feet are turned into dog treats. After I'm done boiling the bones to make stock I give those back to the chickens. Once those bones are picked clean I bury them in the garden. I don't know what on earth I'd do with the feathers if I didn't have a compost pile.

I don’t think I’ll be doing that.

I think I’ll bag and freeze them until the trash man comes and send them off with the trash as suggested above.

 

[Beau plus penny]

I don’t think I’ll be doing that.

I think I’ll bag and freeze them until the trash man comes and send them off with the trash as suggested above.

isnt that cannibalism

 

[fowltemptress]

isnt that cannibalism

Chickens love to eat chicken. I also feed them their own eggs when I have too many. You can't judge them by human morals.

 

[Penpal]

I also make broth out of the bones. I use the slow cooker/crock pot and let it simmer all night. I toss in any other bones I may have too (kept in the freezer). Great for keeping these old bones in good shape.