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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.

No. And rats will dig them up.

I planted a grape vine over a big pile of (mainly) chicken and bacon
hock bones, and despite their being a couple of feet down, the local
rats started a bone mine.

Are you sure that they were after the bones? I have had rats in
my heap from next door's rubbish tip, and they completely ignored
such things in favour of the worms. However, the two are correlated,
as buried bones etc. do cause a concentration of some types of worm
that prefer a high-protein mix for their feed.

Mind you, with the AirArms S310, the grape vine is flourishing on a
second-helping of rats...

Seems reasonable. I am planning to buy a Gamo for the pigeons.
My ancient BSA jumps far too hard as the spring goes off to be
accurate at the distance I need.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.