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

[AuntieWeasel]

I scrape a shallow hole, put the bird in and cover with a heavy paving slab. This prevents big predators from getting to them -- I don't want to encourage them, and don't want to step into the garden and find a cloud of feathers or something even more horrible. I believe little animals are able to dig under and get to the bodies as I've never seen a scrap of anything when I lift the paving slab. I'm okay with this.

 

[casportpony]

@room onthebroom, I thought about you and this thread yesterday when I found a dead opossum on the road. Pictures to follow later will explain.

 

[room onthebroom]

Should I add stew to the poll?

 

[cluckmecoop7]

@room onthebroom, I thought about you and this thread yesterday when I found a dead opossum on the road. Pictures to follow later will explain.

 

[Mtnboomer]

If death is unknown, we do a necropsy at home. My wife takes samples in formalin to work and completes the investigation. The bodies and unused tissues are thrown the trash and removed to prevent attracting any more predators than we have to. If the cause of death is known and not a health risk to us, we will eat them.

 

[aart]

My wife takes samples in formalin to work and completes the investigation.

That's handy!!
What is her occupation?

 

[centrarchid]

Dog food, live-trap bait, and owl baiting station. Did do maggots, but carcasses must be in contact with soil to prevent maggots from leaving carcass too soon.

 

[Mtnboomer]

That's handy!!
What is her occupation?

Veterinary Pathologist

 

[BYC910]

If death is unknown, we do a necropsy at home. My wife takes samples in formalin to work and completes the investigation. The bodies and unused tissues are thrown the trash and removed to prevent attracting any more predators than we have to. If the cause of death is known and not a health risk to us, we will eat them.

Just zaxly where you live.

Veterinary Pathologist

The only time I had the state lab do a necropsy it cost over a hundred dollar's .From that point on it'.i'ms just another dead chicken.Dig a pit beneath the munure pile bury it .would leave it for the scavengers,but my dogs will eat anything .And the deader the better.I deworm them often.

 

[room onthebroom]

Veterinary Pathologist

Wow! Cool!