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

[casportpony]

The next time I’m complaining about birds of prey in my yard, I’ll try to be grateful they’re not gators.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

The next time I’m complaining about birds of prey in my yard, I’ll try to be grateful they’re not gators.

a lady I used to work with told me a story about when she lived in Florida looking out and seeing a big Gator standing under her kids swing set.
I would in my

 

[casportpony]

a lady I used to work with told me a story about when she lived in Florida looking out and seeing a big Gator standing under her kids swing set.
I would in my

Me too!

 

[Mobleymoon]

My husband wraps them in a towel and buried them. He puts them in a towel so he doesn't throw dirt in their face. I am a softie but he is just as big of one.

I love your husband! Sounds like mine! We are wildlife rehabbers, 25 yrs.+. We have had a saying if it comes IN THIS HOUSE for help and we intervene, it has the right to be buried in our gated cemetery. Cotten tee shirt or at least paper towel, (so it's not laying right on the dirt and so no dirt gets in its eyes). Like today, we have lost 10 fertile eggs. Too many for the hen and harvested the extras too late. We did get 4 chicks, God is really Good to us. But these will be buried this afternoon, with all the pomp and tears that go along with this decision. Hold that man close, very few are left out there. Aren't we lucky?

 

[Kaarlo76]

Have not have any of my bird die yet, but neighbor cook and feed dead bird to his Aseels.

 

[Rooapalooza]

I've composted them. My chickens have access to the pile. They don't really pick at bird corpses, but they do like to eat the insects that a corpse attracts. I just bury the bird as deep in the compost as I can. Most are smaller birds I've found dead in the lawn after hailstorms, hawk attacks, etc. I did bury one adult rooster in the pile. I had to cull him but he was way too old to bother trying to cook him, even for my dogs. It never stunk and no predator came to dig him up, which surprised me.

 

[room onthebroom]

Have not have any of my bird die yet, but neighbor cook and feed dead bird to his Aseels.

I need to look up Assels.

 

[Pullet Press]

I throw my dead chickens in the trash, just because it's too sudden for me to bury them.

 

[Mobleymoon]

I don't know how I feel about these comments. I can't imagine just throwing one of my girls in a compost pile or the trash or just whiling it to the woods. But then again, I don't eat chicken or eggs if I can help it. No, I don't eat cakes or custards ether. I shared these thoughts with my best half, as he was walking through the room. He replied, You were from some other planet when I met you 30 yrs ago, you haven't changed. Humans, in general, don't feel about other life forms like you do. And it's okay. Everything that breaths is a thought and action from God. If roles where revised and Chickens ruled the world, I would hope they would treat me in death as kind and as loving as I do them in life. We choose to bury what we have had in our hands. Dead wild birds, mice, and chipmunks are walked to the other side of our 10 A's and left for the possums. Everyone has their place and part to play when you live so far in THEIR WOODS. Even Humans. Rules are clear, and punishment is swift.

 

[Rooapalooza]

I don't know how I feel about these comments. I can't imagine just throwing one of my girls in a compost pile or the trash or just whiling it to the woods. But then again, I don't eat chicken or eggs if I can help it. No, I don't eat cakes or custards ether. I shared these thoughts with my best half, as he was walking through the room. He replied, You were from some other planet when I met you 30 yrs ago, you haven't changed. Humans, in general, don't feel about other life forms like you do. And it's okay. Everything that breaths is a thought and action from God. If roles where revised and Chickens ruled the world, I would hope they would treat me in death as kind and as loving as I do them in life. We choose to bury what we have had in our hands. Dead wild birds, mice, and chipmunks are walked to the other side of our 10 A's and left for the possums. Everyone has their place and part to play when you live so far in THEIR WOODS. Even Humans. Rules are clear, and punishment is swift.

I would love to be composted when I die. I don't personally find the idea of being put in a box separated from nature to be appealing. I'd rather be recycled. Think about how the matter in your own cells is all constantly being gathered from and released back into the world.
The cool thing about compost is how you can see life growing out of death. To me it isn't disrespectful at all. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.