What to do with bird flu dead birds after a slaughter? Compost them!
A Washington Post article about bird flu brings up the gruesome subject of what you do with all of those bird carcasses if you have to slaughter a flock if bird flu is detected.
After trying to burn the bodies (too expensive), burying them (an environmental hazard) and trucking them to rendering plants (risking further spread of the disease), poultry experts believe that the safest means of disposal might be to roll the dead birds into a small hill and let the blistering heat of decomposition burn away the disease inside.
I sure wouldn’t want to be the person who has to use a pitchfork to turn that compost pile!
