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  • From: "J Bailey" <jbmail@isomedia.com>
  • To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] composting chickens
  • Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:36:00 -0800

What will tossing a rooster carcass at the bottom of a compost (mostly fresh cow manure & straw right now)pile do?

I've read that Joel Salatin composts the chicken "residue" from butchering, but I'm talking a whole chicken. Will that provide any of the nutrients of bone/blood/feather meal? Not that I plan to use my laying flock for compost, but I have 2 horrible inedible roosters that need culling, and I'm also hesitant to buy mad cow meal to help my virgin soil turn into a garden...

--Joanna in Whatcom County, WA

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