Composting 107 Hogs 

Introducing, Vegan friendly vegetables! Made from the soil of composted hogs!

Proof you never know wtf you will see on RU-vid. Impressive they composted that quick!

If hogs ever become a more advanced species, this one will be a tough topic to ease into.

Your next Internet search should be "how intelligent are pigs".

This is actually really smart. I see this video has a pretty high dislike video, but I think a lot of people just don't understand the situation. Iowa hog producers got hit extremely hard by COVID. I don't know the final number, but millions of hogs had to be wasted because of processing closures. Composting them like this is a way to take that waste and turn it into something usable, valuable, and environmentally friendly.

I was going to get cremated, now I’m thinking compost.

And that’s how bacon trees are grown

It's honestly somewhat terrifying that you can disappear that many bodies that quickly. 😅

The mafia is looking at this and thinking "hmm that gives me an idea".

If there was a human body in that pile nobody will ever know…

150° for 9 days.....the meats just fallin off the bone.

One of my neighbours has his own small garden on the terrace where he grows lots of different veggies that are enough for him and his family. And he often visits the local poultry and fish shops to buy chicken legs and fish heads that are often thrown out. He gets them for cheap and bury them in his pots and that is his fertilizer for the veggies. And I have to say the produce looks a lot better than what you'd find in any store. They are not overly big in size but they have vibrant colors (especially egg plants, tomatoes and bell peppers) and they even have a comparatively longer shelf life. He once gave me some egg plants and told me not to keep them in refrigerator, saying that they'll stay good for at least two weeks and they did. No dryness or wrinkles and they tasted fabulous...

You ever see a caption to a video that’s so weird and bizarre and you have to watch it. It just happened

The smell after that first turn must be fantastic.

I'm not gonna lie. This is awesome. I learned a lot in the comments and totally respect why this was done. As someone who bbqs regularly it does hurt to watch all those pigs get composted but as a biologist it is unreal that that much biomass can be almost completely composted in just over a week. I figure a month and those bones would be gone too. That is some crazy composting power....

This shows light to farming. A lot may dislike, but alot of us are curious and non judgmental as we should be. Everyone has to survive and thanks for showing your type of survival even if it's not for everyone. Thank you!

"Be wary of any man who owns a pig farm" -- Bricktop

"Don't worry it's vegan".... grown with pig parts lol

That's some damn impressive microbial action.

This makes me want to cry. So much lost bacon.

That's to bad. Nothing against you guys. Just the thought that farmers worked so hard to raise them and probably got little to nothing for them. Glad to see you guys did what you could to not let them go to waste. Much respect

Perfect, something that can be used to grow veggies for “beyond meat” paddies.

Make sure you never make an enemy of whoever owns that yard. One day you'll go missing and not a scrap of you will ever be found.

One of the most interesting videos I have ever clicked on.

Man, that's some pulled pork!

I just threw all my compost in a row at the back of my garden and first snowfall, used my snowblower to spread it back on my garden. Saved a ton of labour.

Cartels: WRITE THAT DOWN!

I love the smell of compost in the morning. That compost turner was awesome! I use a pitchfork to turn my piles. That machine allows you to make massive piles. I thought my piles were big . Yours dwarves mine. Good job on not letting your pigs go to waste. Whenever my animals die I dig a hole, put it at the bottom and plant a fruit tree over it. It's a good way to honor the animal.

and THIS ladies & gentleman, is what you do when life gives you lemons!!!

can't imagine the smell

I worked on a farm as a kid in the sixties, I've NEVER seen anything like this, even toured a meet packing plant. MAN !

This is just fascinating. Caitlyn Doughty brought me here from one of her Human composting videos.

I've seen this process done before on a horse farm. They'll bury a dead horse in the manure, and in 3 weeks or so it's gone. It's a sad situation with the hogs, but if you don't understand the process of producing hogs on a timeline, you wont understand the hardship the farmers are going through to resort to this.

The remarkable speed of decomposing

that TRNER machine is the coolest damn thing i've ever seen. literally moving mountains.

Watching them all jiggle and roll off the truck made me verbally giggle 😂

This technique was actually invented back in the 1970s, around the same time that Jimmy Hoffa disappeared.

Dead pigs and cow poop for compost. I'm glad I'm not there to smell that. Props for these guys.👍

Good soil to grow tasty fruits and vegetables for vegans

"Mommy look, there's a bone poking out of my potato"

Those who give this a thumbs down think that chickens grow on trees and that all dogs go to Heaven. We should all have to hunt and fish for our protein for 60 days every year, eat what we shoot and shoot what we eat. Thanks. Power To The Microbe! Bob in Nevada

"I only eat plants, so there's no animals killed in the process." The process:

I’ve now reached the deepest depths of RU-vid

This might be the best video on RU-vid

Respect to all farmers..thanks for feed us

I think McDonald's perfected this technique a long time ago.

The people who disliked this don't eat. They just stare at the sun for their nutrition apparently.

Finally a good place to dispose of the bodies. Thank you KooimaAG!

I really didn't expect to see clean bones flying out of that composter after just 9 days. Wow!

I can only imagine the wonderful aroma coming from the vicinity

That is a brilliant looking turning machine, congratulations, For those who have only one or a few dead animals, here is a way that is slower but completely stink free, with no big machines required, no compost either, no turning, or only one, and no additional nitrogen. Here is how: Put down a pad of very dry sawdust about 18 to 24 inches deep. Put 24 inches of dry hay or straw on top of the sawdust. put another 18 to 24 inches of sawdust on the hay. Put the pigs or cattle etc on this big mattress leaving a wide edge with no pigs near the sides of the mattress. Put the pigs one deep, not piles of them, and not too close together. Then do the sawdust/hay similar to the instructions above on top of the carcases, finishing with a thick layer of hay (spoiled hay is fine), and do the edges as well as the top like a thick cocoon of mulch. Add no water or nitrogen. (Some rain is OK.) Put a cover over the heap of something like shadecloth or hog wire to deter scavengers. Leave this alone for about seven to nine months then turn the entire pile, ( the odour will be mild.), and make it into a compact rectangle no deeper than about four or five feet with sides as near to vertical as possible and remulch the heap with hay, top and sides. Cover with shadecloth or old tarps etc, but NOT plastic that cannot breath. Leave this to finish for a few weeks, about two months is enough. Then screen or alternatively tub-mill, and you will have brilliant high value humus with no stink at any stage, no extra nitrogen, no water, and only one turn. I have done cows in situ where they died and it works surprisingly well. For just one cow or horse, the bones can be picked out after composting, but fur, and everything else will be decomposed completely.

That’s gotta smell beautiful…

Who doesn’t like pork grinds?😏

“Beware of any man who keeps a pig farm” - that one British movie

When I die I want to be thrown into a compost pile.

Impressive. They'll never find Brick Top's victims now.

Composting taken to a new level. The natural progress of life.

I was expecting him to smell the bone he picked up at the end 😆 🤣

Oh boy I bet that just smells fantastic..

Thanks for sharing this wonderful experiment with us. Every living thing used in our circular green economy should start from and end up in a compost pile including us.

This is amazing. Didn't know it could happen this quickly

pork flavored compost, my dogs would love to dig in that pile.

The term "when pigs fly" has come true in this video.

that is impressive, that many hogs decomposed in that short of time,, the acid in that manure was like going threw a stomach, we thank RU-vid for this amazing website and those who participate in watching and making these videos.

I would avoid the lumberjack slam at Denny’s tomorrow morning

I'm just searching for pissed off vegan comments.

My old neighborhood was next to a ranch that process compost similarly to this. You can smell it up to half a mile away. I wont miss that smell.

I was at a Memorial Day barbecue in Palmyra, WI today and when we got out of the car, there was a terrible, sickly manure stench. We thought it was farmers fertilizing fields, but the host told us that in March, a local farm had to euthanize 2.7 million chickens due to a bird flu outbreak. They trucked them to a nearby field and buried them in windrows under manure and mulch. Today is 5/29, so it’s been over two months and the smell is still extremely strong, although the host says it has improved. We drove to see the windrows and the smell was even stronger when we got closer. Hard to believe the hogs in this video were so decomposed after nine days, but these chicken piles remain so putrid after two months. Really fascinating and kind of spooky stuff, at least for a city dork like me.

One powerful machine you can see the bones flying out.

Man I bet that BBQ had a real earthy tone to that barbecued pork

It's a heck of a lot better to use the hogs for something useful than to waste them. My wife and I grow a mostly organic garden. We compost the manure from my riding mule, all of our kitchen and garden scraps, weeds and all as well as moldy or otherwise unusable hay from the barn and more. It produces a surprising amount of material which creates beautiful soil and good vegetables.

As a former retired hog rider I can confirm that this is how hog riders are made

Inside six months, you could be rid of all 535 members.

As someone who raises there own meat. This is absolutely sad. And a great reason why I grow my own meat.

Hog´s bones are a huge addition of phosphorus to the plants

THAT must smell LOVELY!!!

the rats and dogs will love finding marrow filled surprises in the garden

Ashes 2 ashes dust 2 dust all we are is bones in the wind

"Are you achin?" "Yepyepyepyep." "For some bacon?" "Yepyepyepyep."

That awesome a good way to get ride of terrible wild bore problem

damn shame you had to lose so much stock

Pretty crazy what some bacteria with enough food and enough oxygen can do.

Whoa! I didn't realize this was a thing. Neat. The rate of decomposition is surprising.

Chippin HOG!!! That must smell awesome.

Interesting to realize that they literally cook in the compost pile before decomposing. I guess you could call it a barbecue pit lol

There is something really sad about this. Just seeing their lifeless bodies falling down. Wow.

Soylent Green! What a smell!

Awwww yes the RU-vid algorithm works it’s magic again.

I wouldn't want to be his enemy. He could literally make you dissappear.

Looks like a solution to the feral hog problem.

I bet it smells wonderful out there

Commenting to show my support because clearly these guys could eliminate me from the face of the earth

Madness, Absolute Madness.

I thought this video was about roasting a pig underground like the Hawaiian's do. Just buffet style. I was wrong.

I'm a vegetarian. I'm never eating again.

Ah finally, after 20 years of research I finally found the perfect anti-vegan argument. "But soil is made from slaugthered animals, don't you know!!!"

I was looking up how to press sawdust into fireplace logs. Now I know something I didn't before... or expect.

I need one of these for my chicken farm.

they really needed to have NIN "march of the pigs" in the background

Note to self... don't become enemies with this guy.