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Dairy Products. Milk, yogurt, butter, cream and sour cream are all bad choices for a compost pile. As these ingredients start to rot, the compost will emit an increasingly foul odor. Dairy products also attract pests like rodents and flies. Do not add bones, meat, animal fat, whole eggs or other animal waste in the compost pile.
Dairy products require special care in composting such as enclosed bins or mixing them with other materials. (See References 1) Virtually all the official sources of information on how to compost at home tell you not to add dairy products such as milk, butter, cheese, ice cream or yogurt to a compost pile. The concern is that the dairy products rapidly decompose and emit odors that bring vermin scurrying to tear up your compost pile.