Feeding dogs dead goat?

[tmfinley]

One of our goats died today. I believe it was from an infection from a cut on her teat. The last 2 days she also had gunk coming out of her eye and a runny nose. She was also pretty old.

Is it safe to butcher her and feed to the dogs? IF so how soon after the goat dies does she need to be butchered? My husband won't be home for 2 more hours.

Thank you,
Tiffany

[big rockpile]

Should be ok until he gets home.I think I would cook it before feeding it to the Dogs.

big rockpile

[GoldenMom]

I'd be hesitant to feed an animal that died of a systemic infection to my dogs. Did you treat her with antibiotics before she died? What was/were the withdrawl time(s) for them if you did?

[themamahen]

I would feed her to the dogs, with all the "Normal" things that they eat in the wild, things they "Find" to bring home, Dig up exc. coupled with the animals just like the dead goat that is ground up and put in Dog food I dont think it would hurt them a bit.

[tmfinley]

Thanks for your replies. We have the goat on a spit right now. I would prefer to feed raw, but in this case I'm being careful. I figured, like Mamahen, rotting roadkill couldn't be any better than this.

Thanks,

Tiffany

[ozark mike]

I see no reason for not feeding it.....problem is if fed raw, you are inviting your dog to chase down and kill what you have left, same as if you leave dead chickens around for the dogs to get at.......mike

[Quint]

I'd feed it to them. Probably cook it. It'd be pretty hard to kill a dog based on all of the vile corruption they drag up from the ditches to munch on. I remember my dog eating a dead deer in the ditch that stank so bad I actually vomited at the first whiff. Dog was unconcerned about the whole thing and wandered over to see what I was so worked up about. He didn't see what the big deal was but decided a puddle of warm puke was better eating than a rotting deer corpse. Maybe it was like desert or something.

Needless to say he slept outside for a good while.

[Old John]

Growing up, the Farmdogs use to catch a ground hog, once in awhile.
They'd bury that sucker. Then in about a week or so, one or the other would dig it up, quite Rotten. They'd drag it around 'til it was gone, chewing on it.
They always stayed outside. We wouldn't think of bringing those dogs in the
house. They smelled bad.
Awwww, it never made them sick, either.

[Scrounger]

Back when my wife's dad had milk goats, he'd have one die every now-and-again (of variuos reasons....). He would always toss it into a kennel he had so that the chickens and dogs could clean it up. Never had a bit of problem with the dogs - or chickens, for that matter - wanting to chase down a live goat to eat.

Didn't have a problem with the dogs or birds getting sick, either....