[Diana in Wisconsin]

I live across the road from a pig farm. That’s even worse...though they’re switching over to more cows than pigs now, thank goodness! Cow chit is palpable compared to pig, in my “country bumpkin” opinion. ;)

Isn’t it odd, though? Our “backwards” ancestors knew what to do with every scrap of an animal, from the “Moooo” to the manure. Shows once again how far removed we are from the Natural World today. And it only took two short generations! :(

I read an article on composting animals the other day. It was pretty interesting. A local guy gives a lecture on it; I hope to catch it one day.

As for now, if I have a dead hen I just toss her in the woods and the coyotes do the rest.

Works like a charm. :)

[Calpernia]

I grew up in NJ and spent almost a decade on rural tours under my husband’s medical track.

I will take cow chit, swine slop, or poultry poop any day over the stench from the NJ Turnpike or all the superfund sites our towns are built up on.

The smell is so bad; it earned it’s own FR keyword search.

FR keword - NJFarts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=njfarts

[humblegunner]

I live across the road from a pig farm.

I bet you get A.M. radio reception really well.

Pigfarmers are the numero uno market for talk radio.