How Long For Buzzards to Eat A Horse?

[MH8675309]

The coyotes are the deciding factor. When they get done they'll even drag some of the bones away.

 

[aczlan]

They'll have a deer down to bones in 48 hours. Great natural disposal method. Only other good natural way is by composting. A guy at Virginia Tech in charge of the compost piles there says he's composted cows.

Local dairy composts their dead cows, supposed to work well, but it stinks if you are downwind.

Aaron Z

 

[Gary Fowler]

If the smell isn't bothering you, just leave it and let Mother Nature deal with it. After the bones are picked clean and all decomposition completed, you could just smack the carcass down with the FEL and leave it or place a bit of dirt over it. If it is as described, down in a gulley and out of the way not bothering you, don't do anything, the smell will go away when all the flesh and hide is gone. Coyotes will eat a lot of the bones likely leaving only the legs and head. Other critters will eventually do away with most of that also getting the calcium from the bones into their diet.

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. if no smell leav eit. if it bothers you and too hard to dig.. then mound it...

 

[forgeblast]

Lime it? We had a deer was on the side of the road, one 30lb bag of lime on it made the smell and meat go away.

 

[Larro Darro]

Don't waste those bones. This is a chance for more yard art. You could be the only one in you neighborhood with an intact horse skeleton in your yard.

 

[Stick895]

Don't waste those bones. This is a chance for more yard art. You could be the only one in you neighborhood with an intact horse skeleton in your yard.

The possibilities are endless!

 

[riptides]

Don't waste those bones. This is a chance for more yard art. You could be the only one in you neighborhood with an intact horse skeleton in your yard.

The possibilities are endless!

Halloween is almost upon us.

 

[jerrybob]

We've had cows die in the field on occasion.....seems to take about a week for the critters to have their feast. Smell can get bad.....will last another week or two depending on climate. Here's some other options.....

http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu/horsefs.pdf

 

[Larro Darro]

When we had cows die in the fields, we always dragged them to the back 40. I'm sure they smelled, but it was too far away for us to smell it at the house.