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Although New York State (NYS) has a relatively small poultry industry, farms produce approximately $86 million worth of processed poultry products that are sold in NYS and around the world. There are over 300 farms that raise chickens, turkeys, ducks and other birds for meat or egg production, as well as countless small back-yard fl ocks. The poultry producers find themselves, in many cases, with limited disposal options. Pro-ducers need to manage routine mortality and depopulation, natural disasters, and disease outbreaks. The poultry industry needs a convenient, socially and environmentally acceptable, biosecure way of dispos-ing of carcasses. Poultry carcasses left to decay naturally above ground or buried in shallow pits pose risks to surface and groundwater and endanger the health of domestic livestock, wildlife and pets. Improper disposal ma