Sorry another late reply from me. Rats do invade compost heaps if you put
cooked scraps on them both in town and country, We had a rat in our heap in
rural Cheshire-it had dug a beautifully cylindrical hole under the garden
fence to get to cooked kitchen scraps. Our cat dealt with subsequent
intruders.
The information on cooked food came from a farmer friend who has to control
rat populations as part of his job.
We now have a sealed wormery for kitchen scraps.
Regards
David Taylor

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gentlegreen wrote:
Yep - definitely a rat - had to bash his brains out with a hammer - but
as I
say it went into my red hot compost bin so was quickly dealt with by
mother
nature.

faint

As to the meat thing, I was vegan for 20 years but the past 2 I've been
experimenting with fish and I always make a point of gutting them
myselves
so I can add them to my compost. Since I have a security camera and PIR
lamp
I would know if there was any live rat activity.

Ha! Fish yes! And blood and bones are good too - it's just the idea of
everyone putting the rest of their sunday roast on the compost bin.
Somehow it sounds really wrong. Just imagine those zillions of
gardeners with huge piles of meat rotting away. Honestly ...

Zillions of gardeners CAN be wrong ;-)

It's a life time learning process. I've heard )

Excellent link btw. I never bother touching my compost. I just ask my
boys to pee in it when they have a moment.