Composting roadkill
 

Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in their
compost piles. Seems very strange to me.

Composting roadkill
 

"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
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Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in
their compost piles. Seems very strange to me.

http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/roadkillfs.pdf

More than I ever wanted to know. Says they use the compost on the highway
right-of-way where there is low pet and human contact. How comforting!
Sounds like a lot of "low possiblity", "most of", and "unlikely" situations.
Maybe in the long run it is for the better as the landfill is the
alternative. I know I don't want it in my yard.
--
Jim

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

Composting roadkill
 

Apparently, that part of the country is lacking in native insects that eat
roadkill to any great extent. Roadkill generally does not exist on the
traveled part of the road.

--
Dave
Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
More profound is we made it to the top of the food
chain per our reasoning abilities.
Most profound is the denial of why we may
be on the way out.
"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
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Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in
their compost piles. Seems very strange to me.

Composting roadkill
 

"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
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Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in
their
compost piles. Seems very strange to me.

dead stuff my cats bring me gets dug under the trees as slow release
fertiliser. A useful source of nutrition.

rob

Composting roadkill
 

"Ryan P." wrote in message
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jthread wrote:
"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
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Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in
their compost piles. Seems very strange to me.

http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/roadkillfs.pdf

More than I ever wanted to know. Says they use the compost on the highway
right-of-way where there is low pet and human contact. How comforting!
Sounds like a lot of "low possiblity", "most of", and "unlikely"
situations. Maybe in the long run it is for the better as the landfill is
the alternative. I know I don't want it in my yard.


I'm confused about the "may contaminate water" concern. I can see how 50
dead bodies on top of each other might be a problem, but where do these
people think wild animals go when they die?

Scavengers take care of dead animals in the wild. What did you think?

Composting roadkill
 

Chas Hurst wrote:
"Ryan P." wrote in message
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jthread wrote:
"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
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Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in
their compost piles. Seems very strange to me.

http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/roadkillfs.pdf

More than I ever wanted to know. Says they use the compost on the highway
right-of-way where there is low pet and human contact. How comforting!
Sounds like a lot of "low possiblity", "most of", and "unlikely"
situations. Maybe in the long run it is for the better as the landfill is
the alternative. I know I don't want it in my yard.

I'm confused about the "may contaminate water" concern. I can see how 50
dead bodies on top of each other might be a problem, but where do these
people think wild animals go when they die?

Scavengers take care of dead animals in the wild. What did you think?


Critters gotta eat too. Between blow flys, foxes, crows, vultures, etc.
dead animals in the wild do not last long. Bones left in compost would
be good source of phosphorous. I've seen deer carcasses in wild vanish
in a week with only bones behind. Left long enough, mice may get bones.

Composting roadkill
 

"Frank" frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote in message
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Chas Hurst wrote:
"Ryan P." wrote in message
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jthread wrote:
"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
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Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in
their compost piles. Seems very strange to me.

http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/roadkillfs.pdf

More than I ever wanted to know. Says they use the compost on the
highway right-of-way where there is low pet and human contact. How
comforting! Sounds like a lot of "low possiblity", "most of", and
"unlikely" situations. Maybe in the long run it is for the better as
the landfill is the alternative. I know I don't want it in my yard.

I'm confused about the "may contaminate water" concern. I can see how
50 dead bodies on top of each other might be a problem, but where do
these people think wild animals go when they die?

Scavengers take care of dead animals in the wild. What did you think?
Critters gotta eat too. Between blow flys, foxes, crows, vultures, etc.
dead animals in the wild do not last long. Bones left in compost would be
good source of phosphorous. I've seen deer carcasses in wild vanish in a
week with only bones behind. Left long enough, mice may get bones.

Composting animals or parts of, is a bad idea for a home owner, IMO. It
attracts vermin to the property.

These people have the right answer to Road Kill http://www.road-kill-cafe.com/roadkill.html

David Hill

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"Dave Hill" wrote in message
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'Chas Hurst[_2_ Wrote:
;759435']"Ryan P." wrote in message
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jthread wrote:-
"Srgnt Billko" wrote in message
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Today's news reports several NY counties are putting roadkill deer in

their compost piles. Seems very strange to me.
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http://tinyurl.com/2chczs

More than I ever wanted to know. Says they use the compost on the
highway
right-of-way where there is low pet and human contact. How comforting!

Sounds like a lot of "low possiblity", "most of", and "unlikely"
situations. Maybe in the long run it is for the better as the landfill
is
the alternative. I know I don't want it in my yard.-


I'm confused about the "may contaminate water" concern. I can see
how 50
dead bodies on top of each other might be a problem, but where do
these
people think wild animals go when they die?-

Scavengers take care of dead animals in the wild. What did you think?



These people have the right answer to Road Kill
http://tinyurl.com/yonu2a

David Hill

Here in Pa, it's legal to pick up road kill and take it home-wasn't always
like that.

Composting roadkill
 

Dave Hill wrote


These people have the right answer to Road Kill
http://tinyurl.com/yonu2a

David Hill



Reminds me of this site:
http://www.petsorfood.com/

Composting roadkill
 

Doesn't the answer lie somewhere in the total mass of roadkill vs. the
capacity of local vermin to eat such roadkill vs. the locality of such
roadkill to a human water source? See no such figures anywhere in that
weblink. Seems more wishful thinking in a negative sort of way. Nothing to
substantiate.

--
Dave
Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
More profound is we made it to the top of the food
chain per our reasoning abilities.
Most profound is the denial of why we may
be on the way out.
"Ryan P." wrote in message
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Chas Hurst wrote:

http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/roadkillfs.pdf

{SNIP}


I'm confused about the "may contaminate water" concern. I can see how
50 dead bodies on top of each other might be a problem, but where do
these people think wild animals go when they die?

Scavengers take care of dead animals in the wild. What did you think?


*I* know that. I was questioning the logic of the above referenced
article. The way it read, it seemed that "dragging carcasses further into
the woods from the roads" was a bad idea as it could contaminate water.

My point was that there are far more animals in cities and towns dieing
in the woods/parks somewhere than there are being composted or cremated.
Using the above logic, we should all have disease-ridden water. :

Composting roadkill
 

makes some good mulch/fertilizer. .. the turkey vultures around here
dont like the idea.. lucas

http://www.minibite.com/america/malone.htm