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Janet Baraclough wrote:

Are the bones clean enough by that stage that they won't attract
foxes? I've avoided using bonemeal in the garden as I don't want the
local foxes digging up everything in the vicinty of bonemeal.

Do you know anyone that has actually happened to? I don't, though I've
heard it passed round often. It may just be one of those urban myths.

It is. There is a grain of truth behind it, as with the ant and
aphid myth, but it has been amplified from an observation of
occasional behaviour and a guideline not to tempt fate into a
religious tenet.

There's decades of chicken bones (and roadkill and dead pets and
bonemeal ) buried under plants in our last garden, and none of it was
ever dug up, even though there were lots of foxes around. Our dogs have
never bothered either.

Heck, I just heave bones and stock residue on the top of my heap,
and neither rats nor foxes bother with it. By the time you have
made stock with something, or gnawed the meat off the bones the
way my family do, there isn't enough left to interest anything
except a starving rat. People who put half-eaten legs of lamb
onto the heap may have more trouble.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.