How Long For Buzzards to Eat A Horse?

[troutsqueezer]

Jerrybob, thanks for the link. very educational.

I guess I'll let the wildlife do what they do. If the smell reaches the house, I'll mound it with dirt.

There has been a Mountain Lion sighting on the next parcel over last week. A momma and her cub. Wouldn't surprise me if she took it down.

 

[teejk]

The possibilities are endless!

Winner post!!! We are surrounded by people that see the need to get dogs but tire of them and then let them run free. Coyotes seem to take care of the cats and smaller stuff. But yard art as a reminder to keep your stuff off my property is a great idea!!! I could remove the 870 from the front door area that way (it bothers the wife...makes me look like a red-neck or something I guess...her lips move a lot but my hearing ain't what it used to be).

 

[RobertN]

I'm a local firefighter, about 15 minutes from Troutsqueezer. No way any of the local districts would do that given how dry it is here. I'm pretty sure he is in our district; if not I know the one he would be in.

Even if it were our burn season(late November-May), none of the local departments would do that. I would not want to stand around in that smoke. Or clean the rigs of the stink. And I like doing things to help out neighbors, but would not want to do that. Even for as nice a guy as Troutsqueezer is.

No way to call your local fire department for a quick controlled burn? I'd thing some beers would help the motivation. Water truck wets down area around the horse then burn it up. Fire team on standby.

 

[jerrybob]

Jerrybob, thanks for the link. very educational.

I guess I'll let the wildlife do what they do. If the smell reaches the house, I'll mound it with dirt.

There has been a Mountain Lion sighting on the next parcel over last week. A momma and her cub. Wouldn't surprise me if she took it down.

You're welcome. Mountain lion could easily be the predator. Males can eat a deer/elk/cow per week. Females eat about the same every 10 to 12 days. One of the few animals that will bury their kill and return later to eat more. Males can hunt an area about 75 sq. miles.......females about 50 miles. From what you describe........still betting somebody dumped her on your land. Good luck......

 

[tcreeley]

As a kid we always dragged our dead animals to the corner of the lower field and left them. Neighbor farmer did the same - upper field on the edge of the woods - but he had been doing it a long time. I used to find the cows skulls there and pull a tooth or two out. For awhile I had a skull in my room. Something like what Georgia Okeefe painted.
Around here deer get hit and stumble into the ditch or edge of the woods. There is always something smelling in the summer. Then there is deer jacking. The smell never lasts- let the carrion eaters gorge - the way of life.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Where I live, we have a state approved composting facility that will pick up cows but charge 75 for a horse carcass. Or, as often as not, drag the deceased to a quiet corner and let nature take care of it. When I lose a horse, I bury it with a lot of lime before I backfill the hole. The sooner the better because the carcass does not take long to start deteriorating.

I came home around 9 or 10am this morning and there was a dead possum in the road that had not been there earlier. Around 2pm, when I went out again, the TV's had already just about cleaned it up. Sure does not take long.

 

[John White]

A friend of mine who owns a sawmill takes a truck load of saw dust and dumps on them. Says it will decompose the carkus.

 

[wedge40]

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.

Years ago I had a buddy I called eccentric, everybody else said he was weird. Another co-worker who raised cows said one had died out in the pasture. Bill (Mr. eccentric) ask if he could have the bones. Farmer Paul said sure. Bill goes out in the field and boils the meat off the bones and take em home to finish cleaning them up. Once clean he gets a book and puts the whole cow back together and makes a robot out of the bones. He takes it to local parades and it was a huge hit. So saving the bones for yard art is not really that odd.

Wedge

 

[RobertN]

A friend of mine, for a party at his propertyy a few years ago, took horse, cow, pig bones. with his backhoe, he "made" a archeological digiste fr the newly discovered Humpalotpus. He has a big party with a few bans over Labor weekend every year; that year the dig site was a feature of the party. He even set out little trowels, and brushes etc to mimic what a dig site would have.

 

[troutsqueezer]

Was tractoring the road today and a neighbor stopped and said his wife saw a big pickup truck head up my road that day. The same truck had been seen driving on some of the adjoining roads looking somewhat suspicious, no doubt looking for a less-traveled, out-of-sight place to drop the thing. Guess he found it. So far the wind has been blowing towards the neighbors, not me.