Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

Malcolm Beck, King of Texas Compost, tells tales of regularly adding cattle carcasses to their industrial-sized compost heaps.  The whole thing disappears in 3 - 4 days.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: J Bailey

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:36 PM

Subject: [Livingontheland] composting chickens

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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