Agriculture Reference
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Bird blood, feathers, entrails, and other parts can be
composted just like anything else, although many topics on
composting say to avoid it. Many authors counsel to avoid
animal tissues in compost because they can be attractive to
stray carnivores and rodents and because in a casual compost
pile, sufficiently high temperatures to kill human pathogens
may not be achieved. But if you make thermophilic compost,
the only precautions needed are to make sure that any big
parts of the bird are cut up and that the parts are buried in the
middle of the pile with plenty of vegetable matter. In this
way, the compost itself acts as a biofilter to stop any odors,
and the high-carbon vegetable matter, combined with the
high-nitrogen bird parts, will form seriously thermophilic
compost in short order. Consequently, the nutrients that the
birds took from the land are returned to the land in a safe and
efficient manner.
