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

[perchie.girl]

Cremation is an interesting idea. I wonder if I could get my kids on board with that?

research IN our area there are fire laws... Though you could do a fire pit as long as its screened... To keep embers from traveling... But technically you cannot burn trash in your fireplace... I am a worrier.

Room and I live in the same county....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

California has laws about burying horses on your property.... With a mostly resounding NO as the answer.

I have lost three horses over fifty years. Each got necropsies.... Afterwards each got picked up by Dead animal collectors.... Same guys pick up animals off the freeways and roads...

One place where I boarded lost a foal during birth... They buried it on the property with a lump of sugar in its mouth....

I have had friends who had to have Draft horses put down... They took them to the burial site and the vet gave them the injection.... The hole was dug with a back hoe and it was a simple matter of rolling the horse into the hole. This was in the main pasture on a hill... All the other horses came to say good buy... Then for years afterward She said there would be one or two standing on the hill next to the grave.... Keeping watch.

Yep the hole has to be deep layered with lime and lime on top before covering....

deb

 

[Molpet]

This one is really making me think... Is that one horse a year? What if you had a lot of horses? How deep/wide would you have to bury a horse in rigor? How would you get the horse to & into the hole? You'd need a backhoe & a lot of property....

I have hand dug a hole in the early 1980's and pulled it with a truck, then made the hole to fit LOL didn't get it deep enough..hip bone was sticking out for decades. May still be.

I had 2 that were around 30- 35 yrs old and foundered.. the vet,after 2yrs of trying to cure them, said to put them down, but he wanted $150 to put down and the same to dispose of the body EACH.. so $600 back in 1990's .. While I was looking for a rendering place to take those 2... the 3rd horse that was fine until a house burned, Smoke drifted in and he got pneumonia. I found him dead. So I rented a backhoe. Hole was about 6' deep x 6x 24 ish ... for all 3 cost was $100 and the price of bullets .. broke my heart since one was a pony born there I had her since I was a kid.
Disturbed a cow that had been buried there... how do bones last that long? Grandparents were the last to have cows in the 1930's as far as anyone remembered.

 

[microchick]

I just told my husband that peeps talk about the strangest subjects here on BYC.

Can't help but respond.

Perchie, the sugar cube in the mouth got to me.Saddest thing I've heard in a long time.

I've lost a lot of birds to Marek's disease so disposal has always been a bit of a challenge for me. I'd leave them out for the yotes and buzzards but I keep remembering the conservation guy I was talking to one day telling me how he wished the Amish would stop tossing their dead turkeys in the nearest 'ditch' (slang here for ravine) when they die because the wildlife eat them and spread whatever the turkey died of to the wild turkey population. So I try to bury my dead birds which always isn't easy in winter or in summer when the clay soil turns to rock laced concrete. But I don't want a Marek's dead bird to make its way to the dump.

It's worked so far. Usually I pull scrap sheet metal over the burial spot to keep the dogs out of it but every now and then the little devils get ambitious and figure out how to dig one up for an aged chicken feast. Yeah I know. Made me gag too when it happened.

 

[casportpony]

This one is really making me think... Is that one horse a year? What if you had a lot of horses? How deep/wide would you have to bury a horse in rigor? How would you get the horse to & into the hole? You'd need a backhoe & a lot of property....

I think it's one per day, but not sure. My last euthanized horse was a big one, at least 1200 pounds and quite tall. We joke around about digging a hole but had a feeling the county would come knocking on our door.

 

[perchie.girl]

there is a knack to putting a horse down with a gun.... I was taught early on what to do... so I could tell someone else when the time came....

Back in 1967

deb

 

[snow5164]

Dig a hole and give thanks

 

[perchie.girl]

I just told my husband that peeps talk about the strangest subjects here on BYC.

Not strange at all. Death is part of the circle of life.... We all have ways to say good by... and rituals for burial... And Really it should be shared with humor and poignent stories.

Shows our soft side when we have to make the hard decisions... I know the hell you go through with your birds....

I am thinking that sometimes people dont take into consideration what happens when we take on the responsibility of providing a good life for our birds... and the responsibliity of a good humane death.... what ever the reason.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I think it's one per day, but not sure. My last euthanized horse was a big one, at least 1200 pounds and quite tall. We joke around about digging a hole but had a feeling the county would come knocking on our door.

I actually got a quote from the local pet crematory for my current horse... They said they could process her and give me the ashes to scatter... Price wasn't too bad either...
About the same as having the haulers come pick her up.

She is 17.1 hands and around 2000 pounds. She has since gone to a retirement farm.

deb

 

[casportpony]

I actually got a quote from the local pet crematory for my current horse... They said they could process her and give me the ashes to scatter... Price wasn't too bad either...
About the same as having the haulers come pick her up.

She is 17.1 hands and around 2000 pounds. She has since gone to a retirement farm.

deb

Do you go visit her there?