Disposing of the deceased

[Carole AM]

We cremate ours. We have buried special birds under the flower beds, but I prefer the roaring fire type burial.

 

[peeps7]

I have a little animal graveyard and that is where I bury my animals. I bury them about a foot deep or so, I'm looking for some little chicken figures to put on their graves.

 

[lacyloo]

also if a small bantam sized chicken dies, i use it for bait for my live trap.

 

[greenmulberry]

I have only had one chicken die, I buried her and something dug her up.

If I have another chickens die, I will set her in the woods. The raccoons already know where we are, and there are plenty of them.

 

[EweSheep]

With me, living in the city, it is against the ordiance to bury any animals in backyard or anywhere in the city limits.

So I double bagged my birds and put it out for the trash man to come once a week. Our vet have a dumpster that him and his staff as well as the animal control put all dead animals in the dumpster and they ALL go to the same landfill. Very few will burn their animals unless you want them to be cremated as one in town does pet crematory.

When I lived on the farm, we used to bury all our animals and large animals would be hauled away by a dealor that deals with dead livestock to make lipstick, etc etc.

 

[verthandi]

I bury all animals here, but when I was checking out the University of Maine guide lines it said to burn them. I checked with the town about burning them and they said that I couldn't do that.........go figure?

 

[fallenweeble]

i haven't had chickens for long but i do have plenty of other companion animals . . .
usually we cremate but occasionally we will do a burial. i like cremation because i can keep a little piece of my loved-one with me. also, i don't like the blisters that come with digging the burial hole so there's that too . . .
i would say that whatever you are comfortable with (provided you are complying with local laws) is the right thing to do.
f. weeble

 

[dbjay417]

I'll keep burning in mind the next time I see a pox epidemic, like last time i tried raising chickens. Burning is actually prohibited here even though i live in the country on an island where 80% of the houses are concrete. ofcourse prohibition as usual is widely circumvented. People burn all the time, they just dont burn leaves, grass, and wet wood that produces lots of smoke. I imagine that a burning animal might generate quite a bit of thick acrid smoke. But how long does it take a chicken to burn in a decent fire anyway?

Easy way to circumvent burning laws:

Put a grill over your burning barrel and have a pack of hotdogs handy when the FD or PD show up. Your not burning, your grilling. No law against roasting hotdogs. A cop that busted us for burning back in massachusetts told me that one.

 

[rooster-red]

Quote:
I hate to say it, but I've used this one and gotten away with it!

 

[MandyH]

Burning one doesn't take very long at all. And, It smells like you are barbecuing anyway!!