Evaluation of Whole Carcass Composting as a Mortality Disposal Option for African Swine Fever Virus-Infected Swine

Figure 1

Compost pile construction: (a) wooden platform, poly sheeting, and PIG socks; (b) windrow base consisting of the wood chip and pine shaving layer; (c) swine carcass placement for CP1–4; (d) Dacron sample bags used to place spleen samples back into the swine abdominal cavity; (e) compost pile after addition of spleen samples and core carbon material; (f) final compost pile capped with pine shavings and thermometers placed in each quadrant.