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

[room onthebroom]

You could always do a viking funeral sort of thing

Hmmmm…. Would that be like a body of water & a flaming arrow???

 

[Conan]

I bury favorites, regardless of how they pass though I've never had a predator attack leave anything other than a pile of feathers.
Birds that are not favored and die of any sort of illness or old age are tossed in the trash. If I had more space, I'd chuck them in the woods.
Culls are either eaten or turned into dog food, depending on how they dress out.

 

[skullgrrrl]

I put them out in the woods or field so the hawks and vultures can get a good meal.

 

[Kessel23]

If I know what it died from and I know it is safe they usually turn into dog food. Right now I am losing some younger birds to Marek's and I feed them to the dogs after I pull out the guts. If it is a old bird that was important I bury them. If I don't know why it died then I throw them over the neighbor's hedge, jk, I usually put them at the back of my property to feed the coyotes or I put them in the field to feed the hawks. If a predator like a coon or mink killed it then I usually shove the dead bird in a trap and use it to kill the predator.

 

[Misterpigeon124]

Hmmmm…. Would that be like a body of water & a flaming arrow???

Yes, I'm sure you could find a way to swap out the flaming arrow with an easier method

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm sure you could find a way to swap out the flaming arrow with an easier method

Flaming arrow or bust. Where's your sense of style??

 

[Misterpigeon124]

Flaming arrow or bust. Where's your sense of style??

If you miss, their souls won't be able to walk among the halls of valhalla

 

[BantyChooks]

If you miss, their souls won't be able to walk among the halls of valhalla

Meh, no problem, just have another dozen arrows at the ready.

 

[bobbi-j]

We have a big slough across the road from our place - the 9 mink-killed ones went there this summer. One was still kind of alive when DH found them and he had to put it down. He said he briefly thought about it processing it, but didn’t. Had I been home, I probably would have. It was still alive and the only injury was to the back of its head. Other predator kills where the meat is damaged would not be eaten. Nor would any mysterious deaths. If we don’t kill it, we won’t eat it.

 

[room onthebroom]

A dead bird floating down river with flaming arrows being shot at it is Far Side comic worthy! Man, I WISH I could send my birds off like that!