I'd let it rot down for at least 6 months before digging it in. Hare actually tasted wonderful, we used to have a siamese cat who caught hares bigger than himself. He would bring them home and I'd cut them in half front end for him and his brother, back end for us.

Refreshing to hear. We shouldn't be frightened of eating fesh meat, so long as it's quickly despatched, and no more than is necessary is killed. I'm going ferreting tmrw morning. And, yes, MG, hare is lovely meat, especially the loins. Phil J

Hope the ferreting goes well Phil

I forgot to thank you for your answers. But you can see that answers differ when it comes to gardening. I asked the same question about the hare manure to an elderly man who also has a datcha on the same site as me and he told me to put it on the vegitable patch and just dig it in and the rain will take care of the rest.

About eating hares, rabbits etc: I was brought up in the county of Rutland...it used to be called Leicestershire for a few years, that couldn´t be more rural if you tried and on a couple of occasions I went ferreting with a farmer that lived in the village, but when it came to hitting the poor animal over the head I just couldn´t watch.Sorry, but I could never eat anything "wild". I do eat meat, pork, beef etc and my job is very loosly connected to slaughtering these animals, ( no I´m not a butcher) but I just don´t think about it when doing my job. I hope that this doesn´t start anything off with animal protectors as it did in one forum that I was in...I got some real harsh remarks when saying what my job was, and as I said it is only very loosly connected with slaughtering pigs, cows, sheep etc.

My point of view is, if you are prepared to eat the meat the you should be prepared to kill the animal...

I'm sure a lot of other GoYers wont agree...