butchering - where do you dispose of the waste?

HazyDay · #21 09/14/07, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Feral Nature

I live in sand so digging is easy but I just dig a hole where I butcher and bury what I don't feed to the dogs and chickens.

Sometimes I bury dead chickens and goat guts in the garden. I remember where I bury goat heads as I may want to go back and get the skulls at a later time. I like skulls. Sometimes I wire skulls to trees so ants and flies will clean them. I have a scary farm

Thats just a little creepy!

Feral Nature · #22 09/14/07, 01:52 PM

I am creepy.

Jim S. · #23 09/14/07, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Feral Nature

I live in sand so digging is easy but I just dig a hole where I butcher and bury what I don't feed to the dogs and chickens.

Sometimes I bury dead chickens and goat guts in the garden. I remember where I bury goat heads as I may want to go back and get the skulls at a later time. I like skulls. Sometimes I wire skulls to trees so ants and flies will clean them. I have a scary farm

The famous tracker Tom Brown says the skull is an animal's final track. Nothing wrong with collecting them. Hunters do all the time, but they have the taxidermist leave the skin on, is all.

Patty0315 · #24 09/14/07, 02:55 PM

What cannot be fed to our animals is left in the hedge row and does not last more than a few days. You have wild animals coming thru your place all the time . The pile will not last long enough to attract alot of new ones.

Patty

Feral Nature · #25 09/14/07, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim S.

The famous tracker Tom Brown says the skull is an animal's final track. Nothing wrong with collecting them. Hunters do all the time, but they have the taxidermist leave the skin on, is all.

Well, there are alot of "final tracks" around here. Cows, horses, donkeys, goats, dogs, cats, coyotes, pigs, coons, possums, and so on. I have always had an affinity for skulls. I don't actually consciously collect them. I just never really thought about it. I just 'save' them. They're cool.