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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> I'm not sure what all is in commercial chicken manure, but I imagine
> lots of it could be reduced to harmless by composting (and it's not
> hard to get chicken manure hot).

Commercial chickens live on a steady diet of antibiotics.  Tylan is added to 
the water and I imagine that the food has additives, too. I've read some 
studies that composting breaks down antibiotics, but I still wouldn't want 
in in my soil. Given how they are raised, it can't be healthy stuff.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA