What's the Science behind digging a hole?

[k0ua]

Live ones? YIKES!

I remember using my New Holland's FEL many years ago to bury maybe 100 pounds of meat when our freezer failed while we were away from the house on a trip for several days. Talk about a mess on the garage floor. I was glad to have the FEL to do the job, and the old freezer went out on the driveway. Believe it or not a guy hauled it off for free.

 

[MossRoad]

Wonder how that would work out for larger ones?

Several Indiana State Hwy garages have compost pits for roadkill. By pit, I mean its a three sided square made up of those stackable concrete median dividers. They're supposed to toss in the carcasses and cover them with sawdust, I believe, and the animal is supposed to rot and not stink. So how did I find out about those structures being compost pits? I started wondering why there were almost always half a dozen vultures sitting on those concrete structures at almost every State Hwy garage I've ever seen... Smorgasbord!!! :laughing:

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Several Indiana State Hwy garages have compost pits for roadkill. By pit, I mean its a three sided square made up of those stackable concrete median dividers. They're supposed to toss in the carcasses and cover them with sawdust, I believe, and the animal is supposed to rot and not stink. So how did I find out about those structures being compost pits? I started wondering why there were almost always half a dozen vultures sitting on those concrete structures at almost every State Hwy garage I've ever seen... Smorgasbord!!! :laughing:

I'm sure they add lime as well to speed the process up I would guess

 

[MossRoad]

I remember using my New Holland's FEL many years ago to bury maybe 100 pounds of meat when our freezer failed while we were away from the house on a trip for several days. Talk about a mess on the garage floor. I was glad to have the FEL to do the job, and the old freezer went out on the driveway. Believe it or not a guy hauled it off for free.

OOoo.... we have friends that bought a brand new high efficiency chest freezer and put it in their garage. It got really hot that summer, the motor sensed it, and it shut itself down. They lost a side of beef and it stunk to high heaven and leaked, too. They live next to a horse farm owned by relatives, so they used the FEL on the relative's tractor to take it out and dump it in the back field. I asked if they buried it. They said nope. They don't like the people that live in the subdivision on that end of the field....

 

[MossRoad]

I'm sure they add lime as well to speed the process up I would guess

I don't know. From what I've read, in commercial operations, they don't add lime as it adds to the cost. Some day, when I'm retired and bored, I'll drive up to the garage and ask them... I'm sure they'd get a kick out of a nosy old man asking about vultures. :laughing:

 

[cat fever]

A "real friend" is someone who will come out and help you dispose of a body with no questions asked. He preferably owns a TLB.

Ya know;

2 people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Ya know;

2 people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.

It's amazing how much the dead talk something about night of the living dead

 

[Ken]

Wonder how that would work out for larger ones?

Had lightening kill 3 yearling Holstein calves so with FEL carried them to gully out of sight from road and as carried them had coyotes running beside tractor anticipating a meal.
buried under bale of hay covered with dirt. 2 days later nothing but bones remained.

Now remember sometimes while hunting come across clothing . pair of pants or shirt. articles of hunting gear.
maybe it works this way also.
ken

 

[txndncowboy]

I reported a dead cow shot to the Sheriff once years ago. He told me if I catch them shooting another to shoot them and drag them to my bone yard. He was dead serious. Everyone knows the coyotes and vultures will take care of them in short order.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

I reported a dead cow shot to the Sheriff once years ago. He told me if I catch them shooting another to shoot them and drag them to my bone yard. He was dead serious. Everyone knows the coyotes and vultures will take care of them in short order.

**** right, guys that shoot animals for from the road or for no reason should be shot. Most don't even try to retrieve them, it's wasteful.

I don't support it but I have heard of people filling there freezer out of season, but at least they harvest the animal to use not kill it and leave it lay.

That being said I have been thinking of finding a good way to cook raccoon and possum lol, only animals I haven't eaten yet but have taken for trying to eat my chickens. Not long ago a coon was going Freddy Krueger on the pumpkins I feed to my cows, it was tearing up 6-10 a night so had to put a end to that.

 

[teejk]

**** right, guys that shoot animals for from the road or for no reason should be shot. Most don't even try to retrieve them, it's wasteful.

I don't support it but I have heard of people filling there freezer out of season, but at least they harvest the animal to use not kill it and leave it lay.

That being said I have been thinking of finding a good way to cook raccoon and possum lol, only animals I haven't eaten yet but have taken for trying to eat my chickens. Not long ago a coon was going Freddy Krueger on the pumpkins I feed to my cows, it was tearing up 6-10 a night so had to put a end to that.

I've tasted raccoon at game feeds a few times and thought it was pretty good but whoever prepared it knew the secret. Never tried to cook it myself but there have to be some hints out there on the internet (if you can get by all the alarmists worried about worms and high cholesterol and other such stuff). Possum...granny Clampet comes to mind and I don't have a pool table. Now don't let this steer the conversation to anything other than food served at a game feed...somebody always provided trapped beaver meat...that would be an "acquired taste" IMHO...greasy and "strong" flavor.

 

[mike48]

Hi,
I agree with Gary My Dad told me long time back that's the way it works on the moon phases it effects fishing and hunting they feed on certain moon phase, so try it sometime.
Mike

 

[txndncowboy]

I've tasted raccoon at game feeds a few times and thought it was pretty good but whoever prepared it knew the secret. Never tried to cook it myself but there have to be some hints out there on the internet (if you can get by all the alarmists worried about worms and high cholesterol and other such stuff). Possum...granny Clampet comes to mind and I don't have a pool table. Now don't let this steer the conversation to anything other than food served at a game feed...somebody always provided trapped beaver meat...that would be an "acquired taste" IMHO...greasy and "strong" flavor.

Being poor my folks cooked anything and everything. I've been told I've had possum but I sure don't remember it. I've shot the things for killing my chickens but no darn way was I going to try fixing the thing. Like everything, there must be a trick but I'll stick to the beef and chickens I raise now thank you very much.

 

[Wagtail]

I've tasted raccoon at game feeds a few times and thought it was pretty good but whoever prepared it knew the secret. Never tried to cook it myself but there have to be some hints out there on the internet (if you can get by all the alarmists worried about worms and high cholesterol and other such stuff). Possum...granny Clampet comes to mind and I don't have a pool table. Now don't let this steer the conversation to anything other than food served at a game feed...somebody always provided trapped beaver meat...that would be an "acquired taste" IMHO...greasy and "strong" flavor.

A quick story from my Navy days... I stumbled out of a "bar' in Manilla and was feeling peckish before heading back to my ship. There was a "street food" vendor cooking skewers of something and it smelled appetising to my inebriated self. I bought one and it was indeed quite tasty.

I asked the proprietor as to what I was enjoying and he said, "Chicken of the Sea!" I was perplexed until the gentleman pointed to a seagull.

I guess that the secret was in the sauce.

 

[teejk]

A quick story from my Navy days... I stumbled out of a "bar' in Manilla and was feeling peckish before heading back to my ship. There was a "street food" vendor cooking skewers of something and it smelled appetising to my inebriated self. I bought one and it was indeed quite tasty.

I asked the proprietor as to what I was enjoying and he said, "Chicken of the Sea!" I was perplexed until the gentleman pointed to a seagull.

I guess that the secret was in the sauce.

I never knew that sailors drank. For years the lowly porcupine was protected in some states...something about mountain men getting lost and apparently the porkie was easy to catch and safe to eat. I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I never knew that sailors drank. For years the lowly porcupine was protected in some states...something about mountain men getting lost and apparently the porkie was easy to catch and safe to eat. I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

My dad went to grad school in Russia and claimed that he had learned the porcupine was a Russian delicacy. They would case the whole thing in clay and then bake it, when it was done they would smash the clay and all of the quills would stay in the clay.

 

[turnkey4099]

I never knew that sailors drank. For years the lowly porcupine was protected in some states...something about mountain men getting lost and apparently the porkie was easy to catch and safe to eat. I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

I shot one and talked my mother into cooking it. She boiled it but no matter how much salt, pepper, etc she added it was pretty tasteless.

 

[Oaktree]

I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

Once many years ago while visiting someone in Indiana I had part of a brain sandwich (which from what I understand is a state/county fair favorite there). Tasted kinda sorta like a fast food deep fried fish sandwich only different. Might have enjoyed it more if I hadn't know what it was ahead of time.

 

[oosik]

Digging a hole and trying to stomp all the dirt back in is akin to trying to fit that Chinese made mountain tent back into the tiny sack it came in.

There is a small town down SE of me - Clinton, MT - that has an annual ******** Festival. UMMMMM - good. God bless the sheep.

 

[Wagtail]

Digging a hole and trying to stomp all the dirt back in is akin to trying to fit that Chinese made mountain tent back into the tiny sack it came in.

There is a small town down SE of me - Clinton, MT - that has an annual ******** Festival. UMMMMM - good. God bless the sheep.

Say that three times fast! :laughing:

['******** festival', not 'that']