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Basic Concepts for Composting Poultry Mortalities

Published: March 3, 2008
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The purpose of this fact sheet is to briefly describe the concepts associated with composting poultry mortalities. Composting is an aerobic (oxygen present), biological process by which organic materials, including poultry carcasses, are reduced to soil-like materials. Anaerobic (without oxygen) reduction can be defined simply as putrification. Each process involves different species of microorgan...
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Yusuff Mohammed
WGM Group Ltd
5 de marzo de 2008
Where can composting of poultry carcasses (CPC) be done? Open -air or enclosed surroundings? Are there finished products of CPC? Is it possible to render poultry carcass and then compost?
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