When draining your birds..

[Tracydr]

If it doesn't gross you out too much, you can feed it to your chickens. I like to put it on my garden because blood meal is a very expensive fertilizer.

 

[bigredfeather]

I just chuck it in the holler.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

A.T. Hagan :

Either let them bleed out into a pile of leaves to be composted or wash it into the grass with the hose. You'll have a nice green spot there in a week or two.

Yup​

 

[Saltysteele]

Quote:
i don't know what a holler is, but i like it

 

[maniacmama]

Had my bird in a kill cone; with feet suspended from a line with a slip knot over a 5 gallon bucket lined with a trash bag. The bird bleeds out over the bagged bucket. All "throw aways" ends up in the bag: blood, head, feet, innards... Then we remove the bag tie it up and just for good measure double bag it in a plastic grocery sack. It then moves to my deep freeze until trash day, (which is once a week.)

Why do I go through all this? I live in suburbia. One house next to the other. My"holler" will holler if I throw anything into it. We also have a several neighborhood cats. They already terrorize my rabbits. I don't want to give them any more unintended invites to my yard!

 

[Tracydr]

Maniacmama, I do the same with all other parts, except for the blood. I spread the blood in my garden. I put the rest out in the trash on trash pick up day. I'm also in a neighborhood with houses close on both sides, lots of feral cats. I don't notice the blood attracting them, so far.

 

[BigSkyChickens]

We put our killing cone over a tub of pine shavings, which absorbed the blood. I was a little worried about attracting animals, so I threw it away, but next year, I'll try adding the bloody pine shavings to the compost pile. I figure if I layer it out thin at the bottom, and cover with the rest of the pile, it should be okay.

I like others' suggestions about putting it directly into the garden soil. Do you guys think sawdust might be better than pineshavings for adding directly to the garden?

 

[AngelaClassAct]

It gets composted. Just has to be completely covered so it doesn't attract other animals. Or, put it on your garden!