I usually don't put a great deal of effort into it. I used to skin and gut them but now I build a fire in the big stone barbecue pit, put a grate on it and throw the raccoon on. Turn it regularly and when the fur burns off I pull the legs off and throw them to each group of chickens and give the...
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Thanks for that.
Our MOBOT (Missouri Botanical Garden) had the entire garden graced with some spectacular works by these two plus many other famous Zimbabwean artists.
Very nice. Stone sculpting is very uncommon. I became a part time stone sculptor when I retired. I've always been an artist but I like doing uncommon things so sculpting struck my fancy. I planned on going to Italy for sculpting school but a couple sculptors from Zimbabwe came to St. Louis so I...
It doesn't apply to most small holders but big Ag commercial farms dispose of dead beef and dairy cattle, hogs and poultry insitu by composting. They will make windrows of them in fields and cover with piles of straw. When a disease like HPAI infests a barn of poultry, they'll foam the barn...
If the cause of death is unknown, I send them to the vet school for complete work up.
It is imperative I know what killed them.
If a large number are killed by predators, like perhaps 40 a night by mink, I burn them.
If smaller birds or I have a big enough pile, I'll compost them.
When I used...