Dead Chickens Dumped In Flat Creek

[gotmuddy]

Those farmers must have been poor business people. Every chicken farmer I know uses dead chickens in compost piles.

[SKMO]

Those farmers must have been poor business people. Every chicken farmer I know uses dead chickens in compost piles.

Chicken farmers are required by MO DNR law to compost dead birds, it is not an option and has nothing to do with business profitability. Most would prefer to toss them in the back 40 for the coyotes as they have done forever, and many still do.

Word on the street is that these birds were mortality from a "catching crew". Crews of guys go in and have a chicken rodeo roundup to get them in trucks for their "final destination". They are allowed a certain amount of mortality but are penalized if they kill too many birds in the process, i.e. herd them all in a big pile where several hundred suffocate.

Which is what might have happened here. I do not expect much to come of this, but could be wrong. Chickens rule in Barry County. I imagine all agencies involved are hoping the incident just goes away. Actually there was zero environmental damage done in my opinion when I looked at the dump site. Not a cool thing to do however, and we'll see if DNR wants to make an issue of this.

[SKMO]

Chicken farmers are required by MO DNR law to compost dead birds, it is not an option and has nothing to do with business profitability. Most would prefer to toss them in the back 40 for the coyotes as they have done forever, and many still do.

Word on the street is that these birds were mortality from a "catching crew". Crews of guys go in and have a chicken rodeo roundup to get them in trucks for their "final destination". They are allowed a certain amount of mortality but are penalized if they kill too many birds in the process, i.e. herd them all in a big pile where several hundred suffocate.

Which is what might have happened here. I do not expect much to come of this, but could be wrong. Chickens rule in Barry County. I imagine all agencies involved are hoping the incident just goes away. Actually there was zero environmental damage done in my opinion when I looked at the dump site. Not a cool thing to do however, and we'll see if DNR wants to make an issue of this.

Hey pop to the top !

My original prediction a month ago proved true.

Big Chicken Spill went away.

It just went away.

Hey DNR you got an opinion on this?

Thought so.

Just a layman's opinion but it would be nice to know someone gave a flip from MO DNR in charge of environmental health in this state.

Maybe just a little inkling that someone, somewhere, gave a little bit of a dung about what was actually happening on the ground locally.

Like I predicted this "major news event" just went away.

Yawn.

[T-RockJaws]

No big shocker there, SW MO is typically just blown off anyway...