What do you do with your dead (chickens, ducks, quail, etc...)

[room onthebroom]

Several years ago a fox or a coyote got my peacock and being the way I am I did not wear gloves when I treated him. Did the same thing a couple of months ago with a duck that had been attacked by skunk, opossum, or raccoon. I really will be more careful in the future.

Yeah, we cant have you rabid & foaming at the mouth.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Yeah, we cant have you rabid & foaming at the mouth.

X2

 

[perchie.girl]

Several years ago a fox or a coyote got my peacock and being the way I am I did not wear gloves when I treated him. Did the same thing a couple of months ago with a duck that had been attacked by skunk, opossum, or raccoon. I really will be more careful in the future.

Several years ago I had a Guinea hen loose a leg from a Raccoon doing Take out. pulled it right off at the hip. I caught her and put her in a hospital pen with her own food and water. That is all I did... There was no blood. I figure the ripping of the skin and muscle sealed off the blood vessels. By the end of the month she could get about and was really wanting out. Miss Peggy reintegrated well.

The best doctoring I can do is stop the blood and put blue-coat on. Provide a safe place to recuperate...

sigh

but I will be careful from now on.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Room I want to thank you for starting this thread.... Its given me a lot of food for thought. ON many levels.

deb

 

[LaurEliz]

I usually bury mine. Once I had a very small coop with bantams in it and a little house for them. A weasel got in and killed everything inside. I burnt that entire coop, including their remains. (It's kind of funny to me now that I just flat out burnt this thing that my family and I had made ourselves and spent a lot of time on, but at the time, I was very frustrated.)

If I find tiny bits of remains from a predator in the weeds, I'm likely to leave them there, unless large parts of the bird are still there. Then I'll bury them.

If I have chicken eggs that I was incubating that died mid way through incubation or during hatching, I'll either throw them in the weeds or in the river near my house.

 

[room onthebroom]

Room I want to thank you for starting this thread.... Its given me a lot of food for thought. ON many levels.

deb

Really? I'm so glad!Thanks for letting me know!

 

[casportpony]

Really? I'm so glad!Thanks for letting me know!

Yeah, really, it's a great thread. Thanks for starting it!

 

[room onthebroom]

I usually bury mine. Once I had a very small coop with bantams in it and a little house for them. A weasel got in and killed everything inside. I burnt that entire coop, including their remains. (It's kind of funny to me now that I just flat out burnt this thing that my family and I had made ourselves and spent a lot of time on, but at the time, I was very frustrated.)

If I find tiny bits of remains from a predator in the weeds, I'm likely to leave them there, unless large parts of the bird are still there. Then I'll bury them.

If I have chicken eggs that I was incubating that died mid way through incubation or during hatching, I'll either throw them in the weeds or in the river near my house.

Wow! That's pretty extreme, but I like your style.

 

[room onthebroom]

Yeah, really, it's a great thread. Thanks for starting it!

Thanks!

 

[casportpony]

I just thought of another! Once I did a necropsy on two peacocks for a neighbor and rather than bury them I called a guy that does taxidermy and he took them.