Questions for hunters/those who butcher

My pigs eat feathers and everything else left from butchering any other species. That include deer hide, skulls, hoofs and anything that comes from a chicken.

Pete

we compost it, there is plenty of carbon in the fall , and compoat itself fuctions as carbon in the summer

I compost mine but only from one bird at a time. Joel Salatin composts his in layers of wood chips from his farm saw mill operation, according to what I read in his book, "Pastured Poultry Profits."

Compost what the dogs won't eat.

Don't expect to put much in the compost, though

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I agree with composting what the dogs won't eat...but you do want to make sure you clean up everything they do not finish. We had a couple of broilers that were kept waaaay past time flip this winter. Hubby asked me what to with them and I told him to give them to the dogs. I feed inside the kennel building...but he tossed them outside. It then snowed so I never knew they were out in the runs....or should I say most of them was out in the runs. I found them after we got a big thaw- just some of the breast chewed out heads gone and the rest remaining- but it took me a few days before I could get the outside gates open to remove them as they were frozen shut. When I did- even though the ground was still iced up- OMG the smell! I had to shovel the birds out and dig down to remove the stinky rocks and dirt underneath. Now if your butchering in warm weather and plan to just toss them outside- think of the stench that would be! Now consider the flies and bot flies it would draw....bot flies that will lay eggs on your animals that hatch out into maggots (and yes, they will lay eggs on even spotlessly clean animals in a matter of hours). Not a good thing. Bury it deep in the compost pile.

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When I was in Tiawan there were alot of people that would chew on the legs.... not really for me but found it interesting.

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