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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

 On Jan 27, 2008 3:28 PM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> Adding animal parts is not recommended for a garden compost pile. I
> have always buried animals in garden beds, deeper than normal
> cultivation.

Animals do compost nicely, however, if you have plenty of manure and a
frontend loader to heap it up on the carcasses. My only problem is
that with the arrival of Anatolians who like to dig, some thick bones
have gotten dug up. I came home one afternoon to find a row of skulls
lined up in the driveway (Louie was very orderly in some respects). It
probably caused the Jehovah Witnesses to hurry on to the next place.

Without the help of Anatolian excavtors, most of the rest of a goat is
totally decomposed in days.

Marie