• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      They’ll still shit out the teeth. And hair too, i think. Both of those survive the digestive system (keratin? Enamel?)

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        I mean, yeah, but the pigs do much of the uh, subject disassembly for you.

        Its possible you could get a usable DNA result from hair or teeth that’s gone through a digestive system, but… less likely.

        Where does pig shit normally go?

        Usually into some kind of composting mixture for your own small garden/farm, or even sold to some kind of local co-op or something for the same thing on a larger scale.

        That much exposure to a very active biological situation is gonna mess up and degrade dna even more.

        I guess if you are super paranoid, run the stuff through a mulcher first, pick out anything that looks like teeth and just put em in a rock tumbler or smash em with a hammer or something?