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Spoiled meat for fertilizer?

Unfortunately our freezer went bad, and I have several pounds of meat now unfit for human consumption.

Is there any benefit, or downside, to plowing that under in a food plot? I hate for it to go completely to waste!

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I would think it would be dug up rather quickly. I would use some for coyote bait and let the buzzards have the rest. Sorry for your loss.

If it's not too far gone, see if a local zoo could use it.

It would not be good fertilizer

It is actually great fertilizer. But, it’s not going to work like that. You can’t “spread” it. So, unless you intend to spot fertilize your food plot, it offers you no use.

Might keep any nosey neighbors on their side of the fence! Acres, a few years back we had a real yote problem up at the "happy hunting grounds". I came up with the briliant idea to get free beef/venison ribcages from the local processor and put them out with game cams to be called and slaughtered by us wily hunters. I think in over a monthwe had one or two pics and I'm assuming those yotes were lost. Somebody told me that they haven't prospered for thousands of years by not being suspicious of stuff that's out of place! Made believers out of us!

I appreciate the replies. It sounds like my best bet then would be to bury it next to several of the fruit and nut trees I planted rather than as fertilizer for food plot crops.

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Throw in out and let the scavengers eat it. I can't imagine it's going to amount to much as fertilizer, just worm food.

To the OP, it will do great. I’m not just talking here. Bury it. Then compare the grass over it to the surrounding grass. Won’t have to imagine anything at that point. You’ll see the difference.

Be careful where you bury it as skunks, bears, etc. may dig it up and thus create additional problems.

Look into the Yo Link monitors to put in your next freezer so that you are alerted to any problems. They're cheap and pretty easy to set up.

I wouldn’t bury it near fruit trees. They have shallow roots that really spread out. You will end up cutting through those when you dig. Probably best just to throw it out in the trash.

I used to throw coon carcasses inside protective cage around my fruit trees. Nothing could really get to them so they just sat there and decomposed. Never took long for it to just be a pile of bones. Trees seemed to love it and always responded like they'd been fertilized. I don't have bears so there is that.

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