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A method and apparatus for composting animal waste. A system of gutters and conveyors collect liquid manure and urine and mix it with fibrous material such as ground corn stalks, ground cotton waste, ground peanut hulls, ground hay, or sawdust. The waste and fibrous material mixture combine to form a ground fibrous waste material or mash which is preferably transported up and down the length of the building by a pair of gutter blending conveyors located in central gutters below the service alley between two rows of pens. The mash is moved along by the gutter blending conveyors at a speed sufficiently slow so that composting can occur on a continuous basis. Animal carcases may be ground up and added to the mixture as it is composting, to dispose of the bodies.
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