Hello, <div><br></div><div>From a farmer's perspective, chicken feathers are very valuable as feather meal is made from them and can be used as a nitrogen-rich fertilizer, either in potting soil or as a direct soil amendment. Also unprocessed feathers can be used as a compost feedstock resulting in a very valuable end-product (nitrogen-rich compost).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jerome</div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Anand Karve <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adkarve@gmail.com" target="_blank">adkarve@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div> Chicken feathers represent a waste product that is currently not being used at all. what is keratin used for?<br>Yours</div>
<div>A.D.Karve<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Paul Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.harris@adelaide.edu.au" target="_blank">paul.harris@adelaide.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>G'day Randy et al,<br><br>As chicken feathers are Keratin they may be worth a lot more as Keratin than as methane.<br><br>Happy digesting(?)<br>HOOROO<br><pre cols="72">Mr Paul Harris BEng (Ag) (Melbourne)
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