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Anonymous07/30/26, 22:09No.2876162Can I put dead raccoons into a chipper shredder?
This is a serious question. I have some land to clear for fruit bushes and fruit trees, and will be milling the larger logs into timbers for other projects. But, I plan to get a chain flail type chipper shredder to to turn all the leftover slash into mulch and compost for the fruit. The land has a lot of raccoons who love to destroy berry bushes. I'm wondering if anyone here has experience putting dead raccoons through a chipper shredder to add nitrogen and minerals to their compost. I'm guessing I'll be making around 4 or 5 tons of mulch and have anywhere from 80 to 120 raccoons to add to it. If anyone has tried putting raccoons or comparable mammals - jackrabbits, beavers, coyotes, etc. - into woodchippers I'd like to hear about your experience.
I'd rather not bury dozens of whole carcasses in my compost pile, and if shredded I assume the raccoon material would compost faster and mix in better. And yes, during fur season I'd save the pelts - unfortunately most of the shooting and trapping would occur during the summer months since that's when they'd be after my berries and plums.
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Anon07/30/26, 22:27No.2876165
"Raccoons"
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Anon07/30/26, 22:46No.2876168
short answer: no stringy flesh and entrails will gum up a woodchipper.
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Anon07/31/26, 05:50No.2876219
You need one of theese bad boys.
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Anon07/31/26, 05:54No.2876220
Just shot another raccoon tonight, ten minutes ago, lol. That's number 26 this year.
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Anon07/31/26, 22:37No.2876296
No, don't do it, it will mess up your chipper over time and stink and fuck just don't. Trust me. I've done it. Ive also run my food waste through it for worms, but it makes an unholy mess of things and is totally unnesseccary.Here, possums are our raccoons, and I pile them up in the compost just fine. I've also composted whole turkeys. Joel Salatin composted whole cows. Woodchups underneath, and woodchips ontop. Chipping is unnessecary l, corpses are so high in nitrogen they break down quickly. Leave it to heat up and cool off and then sit for a while. Consider cappi g compost in soil to reduce loss of nitrogen. Get a compost thermometer to monitor your pile.
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Anon08/01/26, 05:41No.2876335
i think youre confused OP. the woodchipper is for COONS, not raccoons
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Anon08/03/26, 00:22No.2876501
I dunno, test it with some stray cats, they're about the same size but even worse for nature so mulching them up into pasta sauce would actually be a net positive for the world.
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Anon08/03/26, 03:43No.2876507
just feed some brush in after each raccoon, it'll clear out viscera
keep the shredded coon off in a pile of it's own / ditch, once you're done, bury it to keep the stank down
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Anon08/05/26, 09:33No.2876754
imagine. the. smell.
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Anon08/09/26, 20:32No.2877173
The practical answer is to just put the racoons in your wood chip piles.
It seems counter-intuitive at first but fresh animal carcasses are actually the thing that wood chips need most in order to actually be compost.
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Anon08/12/26, 01:58No.2877380
If it can handle wet woody brush mixed with 2 inch wide branches, it should be fine.I don't know why you're bothering. Just burry the racoon corpses. Shredding them makes raw hamburger that is breeding mass for flies.