Game Farm & Estate Incinerators
Rearing losses and deer larder waste destroyed on the estate, rather than carried to a collection point miles away.
An estate's waste arrives in two bursts: rearing losses through the summer on the game farm, and larder waste through the season in the deer larder. Both are a long way from anything, and both attract exactly the scavengers an estate spends the rest of its time managing. AniBurn units deal with them where they occur.
Three Models,
One Solution
150 kg per charge for veterinary practices, small farms and pet cremation. The chamber is tall relative to its load rating because carcass waste is bulky and wet — volume, not weight, is the binding constraint.
250 kg per charge with a 2880 mm chamber. The usual specification for a working livestock farm that needs fallen stock dealt with on site under biosecurity rules rather than held for collection.
The largest AniBurn: 300 kg per charge in a 3180 mm chamber. Sized for commercial pet crematoria and larger livestock units where a single daily cycle has to clear everything held in cold storage.
Which Model
Fits Your Volume
Pick a model to see what it clears in a day of game farms & estates.
Rearing losses in summer, larder waste in season: 150 kg per charge suits an estate with one larder and no collection point within miles.
Larder waste is an animal by-product
Material brought back to a building and processed there falls under the retained ABP Regulation and needs an APHA-approved destination. That is a different question from what may lawfully be left at the point of shooting.
APHA approval and environmental permit
The plant needs APHA approval alongside an environmental permit from the Environment Agency, SEPA or NIEA. Remoteness does not create an exemption from either.
Disease surveillance comes first
Deer are a TB host and game birds sit inside avian influenza surveillance. Where disease is suspected, report before destroying — the carcass is the sample.
Lead-shot game must not be fed on
Shot game unfit for the food chain must not be fed to dogs or other animals because of the lead burden. Destruction is the correct route, and this is a genuinely common estate error.
Why Burn It
On Site
4 things change on the day this stream stops leaving the site.
Nothing left out to draw predators
An estate spends the season managing foxes and corvids around release pens. A carcass store is the opposite of that work — it feeds the population you are controlling, in the place you least want it.
No collection round comes here
Estates sit where rounds do not pass. A bin at the end of a track that gets emptied when someone is in the area is not a disposal plan, it is a delay with a smell.
Larder waste has a required route
Material brought back to a building is an animal by-product with a defined destination, and a larder that also handles food-chain carcasses cannot be casual about it.
Rearing losses cleared daily
Poult mortality behaves like poultry mortality: steady, predictable and worst near young birds. A daily cycle through the rearing season keeps the pens clear.
Dual-chamber unit
Primary chamber running 850–1,200°C with a secondary chamber holding flue gas above 850°C for two seconds. For animal by-products this is not a preference: it is the combustion condition an APHA-approved incineration plant has to meet.
Two-burner set and fuel train
All three AniBurn models carry two burners, configured for natural gas, LPG, diesel, biofuel or hydrogen. Carcass waste is wet, so burner duty on this stream is doing more evaporation than on any other — fuel choice is a site decision, the combustion condition is not.
What Ships
With The Unit
Identical whichever stream it is specified for. The operating procedure changes; the machine does not.
Dual-chamber unit
Primary chamber running 850–1,200°C with a secondary chamber holding flue gas above 850°C for two seconds. For animal by-products this is not a preference: it is the combustion condition an APHA-approved incineration plant has to meet.
Two-burner set and fuel train
All three AniBurn models carry two burners, configured for natural gas, LPG, diesel, biofuel or hydrogen. Carcass waste is wet, so burner duty on this stream is doing more evaporation than on any other — fuel choice is a site decision, the combustion condition is not.
Top-loading charge door
Carcasses are dead weight and awkward to handle. Top loading means a carcass goes in from above with a hoist, loader or teleporter rather than being dragged through a door at chest height, which is the difference between a two-person job and a one-person one.
IP6X control panel
PLC control with cycle logging and chamber thermocouples. The cycle log is the record that a fallen-stock disposal, an APHA-directed cull or an individual pet cremation actually happened, and when.
Coretex refractory lining
Monolithic castable lining rated for the full temperature range, replaceable in service. Wet, fatty loads are the hardest duty a refractory sees, which makes lining quality the thing that decides service life on this stream rather than on any other.
Stack, dispersion data and commissioning
Stack supplied to the height your site-specific dispersion assessment calls for, with the emissions data the permit application references, plus on-site commissioning and operator training. On a livestock unit the neighbours are the reason the assessment matters.
How One Burn Runs,
Start To Finish
One charge is one countable event. That is what makes a batch unit auditable and a continuous one not.
One Cycle,
Start To Finish
Adds a seasonal pattern — rearing in summer, larder waste through the season — and a check on what is lawfully left in the field versus what must be destroyed.
The gralloch left at the point of shooting and the larder waste brought back to a building are different things with different rules. Establish which is which before anything is moved or charged.
Trimmings, heads, feet, skins and offal go to the unit the same day rather than sitting in a building that also handles food-chain carcasses.
Larder bins and poult crates tip in from above. Larder waste is wet and heavy; a red deer carcass condemned whole may approach the charge rating, so check the animal against the model.
Primary combustion at 850–1,200°C with two seconds above 850°C in the secondary chamber. Skins and heads take longer than soft offal, so a mixed larder charge runs more evenly than a load of one thing.
3–5% sterile ash. Log against the larder record and the rearing mortality book, which are records the estate keeps anyway.
What You Can Burn —
And What You Can't
One charge takes the whole stream without pre-sorting. What must never enter it is a short, hard list.
Yes: accepted in a charge
No pre-sorting between these
- Game bird rearing lossesBrooder and rearing mortality, and poults lost in the release pens — the spring and summer peak on an estate.
- Deer larder wasteTrimmings, heads, feet and skins, plus offal removed in the larder rather than left in the field. The autumn and winter peak, for entirely different reasons.
- Larder condemnationsCarcasses declared unfit at larder inspection, and birds condemned at the game dealer and returned to the estate.
- Deer found dead on the estateAccepted once any disease question has been settled and required sampling is done.
- Small game unfit for the chainRabbits and small game that cannot enter the food chain and have no collection route on a remote estate.
- Veterinary and pen wastePost-mortem remains from a veterinary examination, and bedding or litter recovered from a rearing pen with a carcass.
No: never charged
Not a permit question — these stay out
- Material where a notifiable disease is suspectedDeer are a TB host species and game birds are subject to avian influenza surveillance. Suspicion is reported and APHA directs what happens — destroying the animal removes the diagnostic sample.
- Dead wild birds found on the groundWaterfowl and raptors found dead are an avian influenza surveillance signal, not a tidy-up task. Report them; burning one destroys the sample that would have been tested.
- Lead-shot carcasses fed to other animalsNot an incinerator exclusion but the mistake next door to it: shot game unfit for the chain must not be fed to dogs or other animals because of the lead. Destruction is the route, not the kennel.
- Whole mature red deer above the charge ratingA capacity limit. A large stag can exceed 300 kg, in which case the carcass needs an approved collector rather than a longer cycle.
- Cartridge cases, wads and shooting debrisPlastic wads and metal cases do not combust usefully, leave residue in the ash and can carry halogenated content. They are a litter-picking job, not a charge.
- Feed sacks, netting and pen materialsPolymer netting and woven sacks melt rather than burn and foul the chamber. They have collection routes.
Can you legally burn game farms & estates on site?
Technically, yes: the chamber destroys almost everything on the accepted list at 850–1,200°C, and capability is rarely the constraint. Legally is a separate question. What your site is allowed to burn is set by your environmental permit from the Environment Agency, SEPA or NIEA and the waste codes written into it, plus APHA approval, because animal by-products are regulated under their own rules. The never-charged list is different again: those materials are out of scope for the unit or governed by a direction, and no permit wording brings them back in. Send us the codes you hold, or the ones you expect to apply for, and we will tell you which of this list they cover before anything is specified.
Send us your waste codesWhat size incinerator for a week of larder waste?
Arithmetic on published model figures, not a customer reference. Your numbers go through the same steps.
How This
Was Worked Out
6 beasts at ≈30 kg of larder waste each = ≈180 kg — one ABI-250 charge, leaving 5–9 kg of ash at 3–5%. Larder yields here are typical rather than measured. An estate sizing this should check both peaks — the rearing season and the deer season — because they load the unit at different times of year and for different reasons.
ABI-250
1
5–9 kg
Send your daily or weekly arisings and we will confirm the model, the charge count and the permit route.
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& Services
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Game farms & estates Questions
Answered against the published figures for the models specified for this stream, not a generic range sheet.
Two distinct streams on the same holding. The game farm side produces rearing mortality: poults lost in the brooder and release pens, birds taken by predators inside the pen, and the losses that come with moving stock. It runs through spring and summer and behaves much like poultry mortality — steady, predictable, and unpleasant if allowed to accumulate near young birds. The deer side produces larder waste through the season: the trimmings, heads, feet, skins and offal that come off a carcass in the larder, plus animals condemned as unfit at inspection. A larder handling several beasts a week produces a consistent volume of material that cannot simply be left about, particularly at a site that also handles carcasses destined for the food chain. What is lawfully left in the field is a genuine and separate question. The gralloch — the offal removed at the point of shooting — is customarily left on the hill in a way that larder waste is not, and the rules on it depend on where you are and what the material is. Larder waste brought back to a building is unambiguously an animal by-product with a required route, and treating one as the other is where estates get into difficulty. Distance is the operational driver. Estates are, by definition, in places collection rounds do not naturally pass, and a carcass bin at the end of a track is a magnet for foxes, corvids, badgers and dogs. Destroying material at the larder or the rearing field removes the store rather than relocating it to somewhere less convenient to police.
6 beasts at ≈30 kg of larder waste each = ≈180 kg — one ABI-250 charge, leaving 5–9 kg of ash at 3–5%. Larder yields here are typical rather than measured. An estate sizing this should check both peaks — the rearing season and the deer season — because they load the unit at different times of year and for different reasons.
The offal removed at the point of shooting is treated differently from larder waste brought back to a building, and the position depends on where you are and what the material is. Larder waste is unambiguously an animal by-product with a required route — the mistake is treating the two the same.
It depends on the animal. Roe and fallow are comfortably inside the range; a large mature red stag can exceed the 300 kg charge rating, in which case the carcass needs an approved collector. Larder waste from any species is well inside it.
They go into a routine charge, and the sooner the better — carcasses in or near a release pen feed exactly the predator population the keepering is trying to control.
Yes, and destruction is the right route. What you must not do is feed lead-shot game to dogs or other animals, which is the alternative estates most often reach for and the one that causes harm.
Consider disease before disposal. Deer are a TB host species and dead wild waterfowl and raptors are avian influenza surveillance signals. Report first where there is any suspicion, because destroying the animal destroys the sample.
Usually not. The case is built on volume and distance: a rearing operation with thousands of poults, or a larder processing beasts weekly, a long way from any collection round. A few days' shooting a season does not justify a unit.
There are two peaks and they fall at different times — rearing losses in spring and summer, larder waste through the deer and game season. Size on whichever is heavier rather than on an annual average that describes neither.
No. Remoteness makes an on-site unit more attractive, not the consents optional. APHA approval and an environmental permit are both required wherever the estate is.
Ready to
Incinerate?
Send the stream, the volume and the site constraints. We will confirm the model, the permit route, and what the specification has to say to satisfy the regulator.
- Nothing left out to draw predators
- No collection round comes here
- Larder waste has a required route
- Rearing losses cleared daily