What to do with wasted innards?

[al6517]

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I have never read anyone say to use meat products in their compost pile. NEVER! Either you get rodents or disease.

I also would never throw inards into the compost pile, it is not a practice you should even think about starting. reasons are to long to post.

 

[jaku]

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I have never read anyone say to use meat products in their compost pile. NEVER! Either you get rodents or disease.

I also would never throw inards into the compost pile, it is not a practice you should even think about starting. reasons are to long to post.

Joel Salatin talks about this quite a bit in his book. He's been doing it with all of his guts since he started.

 

[brandywine]

If you have a large, very hot compost pile, it will be okay.

I would not do it in my smaller, colder pile.

Why not use the guts to make a maggot-bucket for your chooks?

I read about those here, do a search and you'll find several threads.

 

[TexasVet]

I toss the innards in a field for the buzzards to eat. We've been in a drought for two years now, so they can really use the extra food. The heads, feet, and wing tips go into the freezer if it's going to be a couple of days before trash pickup. Otherwise, I double-wrap them in trash bags and put them out for pickup.

As for adding them to the compost pile... I wouldn't do it. At best, it'll stink and attract ants and other critters looking for a meal.

Kathy in Texas

 

[bheila]

We burn them.

 

[wclawrence]

You mean y'all have parts left over?

Just kidding.

I don't want neighbor's dog to like raw chicken. He knows where mine live.

Fish bait is a great idea!

I own a garbage business and run a truck 4 days a week, so I never have a problem disposing of anything really. But if I did have to worry about it I would either do the burn barrel method or fish bait method.

 

[NC chicken man]

We processed about 400 broilers and 100 turkeys last year and we composted every bit of the innards ,feathers and what ever else is left put some lime on top and cover with saw dust and then with a tarp.

 

[justpete]

How long does it take to compost the feathers?

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Anything organic can be composted. Too many predators around here to have rodents so that's not a problem.

What do you think happens when you put it in the bag and send it with the trash? It goes to a dump, infested with rats... and what the rats don't eat it decomposes over time. Your contributing to a disease more likely by throwing it in the trash.

Also about 200 birds only gives off about a 5 gallon bucket of edible waste for a rodent the rest is feathers. If put in a sunny location with lots of carbon materials such as old wood chips, leaves, ect. will decompose by the end of the week. It gets too hot inside the pile for maggots and rodents to live in the pile. Plus the dogs usually run off other animals that want to get in.

It's funny becuase the maggots after they hatch at night you can see them crawling out off the compost pile becuase they can't take the heat. The flies lay the eggs in the compost and they don't realize what happens to the maggots.

I know I'm not alone in composting my offal and dead birds.

*edited* Feathers take a few months to compost, only if your compost pile is hot. If we do a lot of birds we have a black tarp we throw over it and put old tires on top to help keep it hot. Even on balmy 30 degree days you can see the steam rolling off of it, especially after we do our 1,000 birds in the fall + 200 turkeys. They pile is huge and by June of the following year it is awesome black soil. You have to layer it quite a bit and cover it for the winter to keep things from digging in it.

 

[chook pen jen]

should make great compost ,like compost +blood&bone.