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

Well, I'm sure they get lots of stuff although now so-called organic
chickens are available at about the same price. My point was that a
hot compost pile would probably disintegrate most of the anitbiotics
etc. Nothing heats up a compost pile like a little chicken shit. I
would think that much of the problem of commercial piles of chicken
manure could be ameliorated by composting (preferably over a
fluid-impervious barrier so the stuff doesn't leach into the
groundwater before it's cooked.

Marie, in central Illinois where we're enjoying out first lovely snowfall

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth
<lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>