After a debate with several stalkers I am interested in how YOU are getting rib of waste products?

Who is incinerating or burying green gralloch, pluck, head and feet and under what situations, how have you interpreted the rules? Depth of burying, 1 metre? how are you disposing of ash if you have access to an incinerator?

Don't work for the authorities just interested in what is practically done in your circumstances......

When a game is killed I first open the belly and drag out everything that I don't want like guts, lungs, liver, kidneys, peebag and sometimes the heart. I just dump it on the spot. Foxes or other animals do find and eat this quite fast. The skin and other parts that is not supposed to be stored in my freezer I just put it in the normal house garbage. This is my Norwegian method. If I lived closer to the woods I would have dumped everything there. The nature is quite brilliant when it comes to recycling. But do not dump anything close to buildings. If it by some reason takes some time before it is consumed it will smell.(bomb)....

We have lots of wild boar here to clean up the mess.

In Finland we do it as David does in Norway. Last year or the year before some greenies made an effort to have a group of hunters charged for violating the public health laws, when they left the intestines of a moose on spot in the woods -the way it is done on practically all hunted moose. Fortunately, it was turned down by officials, since it really wasn't illegal.

However, we do take the hides and sell them - both moose and whitetails. They are not worth much nowadays, but it is something and it is also a handy way to get rid of them.

I let mother nature discreetly recyle it. This she is very good at. Lets face it we are no where near commercial volumes of waste.

Mark

Ditto.. however my dogs like heads and legs to chew. Also have "National Fallen Stock Scheme membership" unfortunately the knackerman is on farm most weeks picking up sheep so excess deer waste can go on scheme (if the dogs agree!!) That's a government sponsered commercial incinerator- subsidised but still costs me about £300 p.a.

It never ceases to amaze me hhow quickly mother nature cleans up for us. I had to go find a fallow doe a few weeks back that had been hit by a car. Fern found the big old doe which was bashed to bits so I just cut the gut cavity open after draging to a less conspicuous spot.

within a week the whole lot was gone, leaving just an area with some hair on the ground. No bones, skins, nothing. I think if you have any black and whites on your ground they are very effective at cleaning up.

Rgds,
FB

Mother nature developed her recycling squads following thousands of years of testing and evaluating. The present day DEFRA mob have only been at it for a short while. When they have tested their methods, for say a minimum of 2000 years, and prove them to be better than the old girls, then and only then will I try their way. Until then I shall continue to provide food, fuel and shelter for natures recycling squad.

John

nightwalker uk,

Depends on the wishes of the land owner to some extent, plus the circumstances on the ground.

In Thetford, due to Joe Public complaining if their dogs decided to aid the recycling scheme, I tend to do the gralloch back at the Larder, where it is bagged up to await disposal by the FC who I believe incinerate it..

In other areas, I tend to dispose of the gralloch out of sight for nature to takes it course.

I predict the waste disposal is going to be the next big area of regulation that hits stalkers here in the UK, especially commercial operations.

There's lots of red tape out there all ready, but at present enforcement seems patchy or none existent. However I do see us coming under the spotlight in the same way as farmers have done..

Regards,

Pete

Having just registered my chiller I can tell you that the council was not clued up on disposal of waste. The chiller was fine but what I had not realised was that the vehicle is registered too (as the carcass is transported in it).

Luckily my vehicle satisfies the criteria for short term unchilled transportation (carcass in seperate area) if my equipment box is put on the back seat and my dog is in the front passenger footwell but strictly speaking my carcass carrier should have a lid.

Transportation of chilled carcasses would not work as they would be 'stacked' which is bad practice. Luckily the dealer picks up from me.

Anyhow despite this rigour waste disposal was not asked about. I gralloch in the field and put guts and pluck in a relatively inaccessible place. I do always cut the stomach and empty the green out so that it is more easily scavenged. Heads and legs go to the game dealer for incineration.

I must admit to not minding these regulations. Venison should be a quality product - to treat it as such (chilled and clean) is only going to help.