Mortality Management
General Information
- Best Environmental Management Practices - Mortality Management (Purdue University) PDF
- Carcass Disposal: A Comprehensive Review (Natl Ag Biosecurity Center Consortium) PDF
- Dead Poultry Disposal (Texas A&M) PDF
- Deadstock Disposal (Ontario Ministry of Ag, Food and Rural Affairs) HTML
- Livestock Carcass Disposal (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency) PDF
- Livestock Decision Making Tools (Alberta Ag & Forestry) HTML
- Livestock Disposal Manual (Washington State Dept of Agriculture) PDF
- Livestock Mortality Management (Alberta Ag & Forestry) HTML
- Managing Livestock and Poultry Mortalities (eXtension) HTML
- Options for Dead Bird Disposal (University of Florida) PDF
- Poultry Carcass Disposal Options for Routine and Catastrophic Mortality (CAST Issue Paper #40, Oct 2008) PDF
- Poultry Environmental Best Management Practices (LSU Ag Center) PDF
- Virginia Farmstead Assessment System: Poultry Litter Management and Carcass Disposal (Virginia Tech) PDF / HTML
Burial
- A Better Method for Burying Animal Carcasses (State of Maine Dept of Ag) PDF
- Burial Methods and Disposal Practices (Texas A&M) PDF
- Carcass Disposal: A Comprehensive Review - Chapter 1: Burial (Natl Ag Biosecurity Center Consortium) PDF
- Guidelines for Burial of Major Poultry Die-off: Handling Major Poultry Mortality by Burial (USDA/NRCS) PDF
- Routine and Emergency Burial of Animal Carcasses (Texas A&M) PDF
Catastrophic Losses
- Catastrophic Animal Mortality Management (Burial Method) Technical Guidance (USDA/NRCS) PDF
- Guidelines for Burial of Major Poultry Die-off: Handling Major Poultry Mortality by Burial (USDA/NRCS) PDF
- Guidelines for In-House Composting of Catastrophic Poultry Mortality (University of Maryland) PDF
- Guide to Composting Flood-Related Animal Moralities (North Carolina Dept of Environment & Natural Res) PDF
- Proper Disposal of Routine and Catastrophic Livestock and Poultry Mortality (Oklahoma State University) PDF
Composting
- Composting Animal Mortalities (Minnesota Dept of Agriculture) PDF
- Composting Dead Birds (University of Maryland) PDF
- Composting Dead Poultry (Virginia Tech) PDF / HTML
- Composting Poultry Carcasses (Purdue University) HTML
- Composting Poultry Mortality (North Carolina Coop Extension) PDF / HTML
- Cost Comparison of Composting and Incineration as Methods for Mortality Disposal (North Carolina State University) HTML
- Natural Rendering: Composting Livestock Mortality and Butcher Waste (Cornell Waste Management Institute) HTML
- Natural Rendering: Composting Poultry Mortality - The Emergency Response to Disease Control (Cornell Waste Management Institute) PDF
- Troubleshooting Poultry Mortality Composters (Virginia Tech) PDF / HTML
Fermentation
- Carcass Disposal: A Comprehensive Review - Chapter 5: Lactic Acid Fermentation (Natl Ag Biosecurity Center Consortium) PDF
- Development of a Practical Fermentative Process for Stabilizing of Poultry Carcasses Prior to Rendering (Auburn University) HTML
- Fermentation Mixture Formulation and the preservation of Poultry Carcasses (1995 J Applied Poultry Res 4:88-93) PDF
- On-farm Fermentation of Poultry Carcasses (Abstract: 4th Internatl Animal By-products Symposium) PDF
Incineration
- Carcass Disposal: A Comprehensive Review - Chapter 2: Incineration (Natl Ag Biosecurity Center Consortium) PDF
- Cost Comparison of Composting and Incineration as Methods for Mortality Disposal (North Carolina State University) HTML
- Incineration of Poultry Carcasses: Lessons Learned from the Virginia Avian Influenza Outbreak of 2002 (Abstract: 4th Internatl Animal By-products Symposium) PDF
- Installation and Use of Incinerators (Alabama Coop Extension Service) PDF
- Using Incinerators for Poultry Mortality Management (University of Tennessee) PDF