Livestock buial...

[flusher]

Lately I have been getting quite a few calls to bury horses. I dont know if its from the heat or what is causing this. I usually I arrive with in 12hrs of the animal going down.

A lady called me yesterday asking if I could bury a horse the was old and died, I told her I would be there as soon as I got off work and loaded the tractor. I arrived right on time at 1830hrs.... Now what she did not tell me is the animal went down Sunday. I almost turned the job down luckly for me I was able to make a large hole upwind and carefully push the animal in and back fill it with out it popping.... Any advice on how to handle bloated animals about to pop?? I may simply start turning these down it was disgusting.. I cant figure out why someone would wait so long especially in this heat..

My neighbor had to put down three geriatric horses this past Spring. One of his friends dug the pit with a construction size JD 410 backhoe.



He moved the carcasses to the hole with his AC wheel loader.

 

[Soundguy]

We have had Free farm animal pickup here until recently (subsidized by the county at $25 per cow). We would need to bring the animal to the edge of the road for pickup the next day. Now the company that has been picking us up has stopped and we are now back to square one. Ken Sweet

rendering outfit?

soundguy

 

[jimmyj]

We have a dead stock removal outfit here but it's not long for this world (save the expression). There is no money in it any more and I can't blame the guy. It's a nasty job he he has, hauling dead stock away in a bin for $25 or $35 per head. We had to put down some stock a while back and it was a bit macabre, the bin had 3 pigs, a Llama, a horse and a sheep all stacked up in a tangles mess (funny in a black humor kind of way). He took them for rendering.

Anyhow, to your issue, I'm with the guys, shoot it and get the gas out, dig and bury. You are a nice person to help other folks who can't deal with the issue themselves.

 

[sweettractors]

rendering outfit?

soundguy

Yes, Rendering business. Ken Sweet

 

[Soundguy]

I figured it was.

dump here stopped taking them about 20ys ago.

soundguy

 

[rtimgray]

In our county in Western Kentucky, the local road deparment (county, not state) will come bury the animals (cows and horses only, as far as I know) on your site for free. They will also dump in a bag of lime before covering the carcass. However, they will bury it only where the animal lays (no moving by them, but you can move it all you want before they get there). I've used this service, and it is handy.

 

[big e]

I put coons and cats sized animals in the back field and the buzzards and flesh eating beetles strip them bare in days. Of course, the beetles don't clock in for work in the winter.

On a side note... I think coons smell the worst of all dead animals... maybe the fat?

 

[Soundguy]

As a rule I usually burry small animals I find dead in case of disease.

soundguy

 

[jimmyj]

On a side note... I think coons smell the worst of all dead animals... maybe the fat?

I donno, dead skunks are pretty nasty! A big ole dead moose we came across once stank pretty bad too. Puweee...

 

[Soundguy]

i've hit dead animals while bush hogging. wonderfull aroma...

soundguy