01-08-2003, 02:12 PM
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Using bones for fertilizer?
(Jan Flora) wrote in
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In article
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Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote:
In article ,
Pat Meadows wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:56:54 GMT, Salty Thumb
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Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in
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Our 150# black Newfoundland, Natasha (RIP) could smell bone meal
a mile away and dug quite a few pits as a youngster.
Fortunately she outgrew the habit after she was around two years
old. I used to have to hose her off with the garden hose---
what a mess LOL.
Interesting. But I wonder if it's still a problem? I guess that
incident was around 7 years ago? I picked up a package of bone
meal for my mom recently and it said some fancy smancy stuff about
a "special steam purification process", so I wonder if that got
rid of whatever attracts animals, and if something similar could
be done with home-made bone meal etc.
Being the paranoid person that I am, I wouldn't use bone
meal in the garden because of BSE (mad cow disease). One
case of it was recently reported in Canada.
I just wouldn't want to be spreading bone meal around my
place, and certainly not in the garden with the edibles.
Pat
I wondered about that too. I don't think they've found anything that
kills prions yet.
The steam sterilization process will *not* kill BSE prions. (I'm a
beef cattle rancher, and have been playing real close attention to the
whole BSE deal.)
Jan
All the more reason to figure out a way to home compost bones ... at
least until 'crazy chicken' disease becomes a problem. :-)
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