I am looking to raise some animals for meat such as chickens, fish and maybe rabbits. Is it possible to compost the meat an organic and relatively cheap way? As in put it back into the dirt without causing harm to plants as I’d use it in a home garden.
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Meat is normally not used in home compost because it breaks down much slower than plant matter. Most meat also contains fat which will keep the rest of the organic matter from decomposing at the rate you would want. Bones, if broken in very small pieces, would compost well, but animal protein would draw rats, mice, and other undesireable visitors to your compost pile as well as make a mighty stink. Drying the protein first and chipping it might work, but that sounds like too much trouble for the little bit of good it would do. Fish could be composted if allowed to decompose longer than plant matter. Rabbit and chicken manure are great if composted.
Composting meat will attract pests and smell terrible. The only possibility I know of is:
feed the waste to the dog ,he will compost it for you.
Make a black soldier fly larvae pod and feed it to them. Then feed the BSF to chickens, use them as fish bait, etc.
BSF are very high in protein.
Not really recommended.
Do NOT attempt to compost MEAT OR ANY ANIMAL MATTER.
I say this for the same reasons that most of the other answers suggest, BUT…
Even more critical is that the composting process is really nothing more than ROTTING, and uses bacteria to digest [rot/decompose/compost] any material.
In the case of animal products, most if not all of the bacteria that do the eating/rotting/decomposition/composting of the meat are HAZARDOUS TO HUMANS and is unsanitary, and usually a violation of local health codes and laws.
DON’T DO IT!!!!!!
