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

[The Phantom]

 

[GreatGranny]

Being as I can't be sure exactly what they die from (infection, defects, diseases) or if a preditor that kills one has a disease of some sort, we do not eat our dead birds... We burn our dead birds...(I have only lost 1 of 38). We only eat the birds we intentially cull. We do not bury our dead chickens for fear of preditors finding the sites, digging them up and eventually being led to our live animals!

 

[dpenning]

We back up to a blackland prairie with a deep creek. Dead critters get tossed over the fence into the woods for coyotes and other wildlife.

I'm curious what everybody does with their sick or crippled birds? There are no judgements here, so if you don't like what someone says, please keep it to yourself. I'm just wondering, if you have a bird that dies of illness, or sudden death, or an attack, or other unexpected loss, do you;

*Still send it to freezer camp?
*Send it to the lab?
*Throw them in the trash?
*Make dog food?
*Bury them?
*Burn them?
*Compost them?
*Throw them over the hedge into the neighbors yard?
*Other?

I've been known to bury mine, but I'm always interested to hear what other peoples practices are. ​

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

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WOW! Those are fantastic!

 

[blackandtan]

Depends what it is - broilers and turkeys often die suddenly, into the freezer they go. Layers get bagged and taken to the dump, I never put bird carcasses in the bush because I don't want to train the local wildlife to eat them!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Bed time here.. have a great night everyone!

 

[The Phantom]

Oooooo!!
So wants to know just exactly how to skin, preserve and mount a bird!
Maybe an article?

Ooooooooooooo! I will totally make an article on the next bird I mount.

 

[The Phantom]

WOW! Those are fantastic!

Thankyou

 

[perchie.girl]

Oooooo!!
So wants to know just exactly how to skin, preserve and mount a bird!
Maybe an article?

X2

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Ooooooooooooo! I will totally make an article on the next bird I mount.

Im off.. for real this time..