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Anyone here grow up on a farm? If so, did you have a livestock graveyard?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:32 am
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:32 am
I grew up on a farm. We had a livestock graveyard that looked very similar to the elephant graveyard in the Lion King.
Whenever a cow, horse, or pig would die, we'd tie a chain around it's lifeless neck, attach the chain to a tractor, and drag that body across pastures and creeks to the "Animal Graveyard". The Animal Graveyard is in a grove of trees next to a small river and our family has used this spot as the "catch all" for dead animals for over 100 years.
The Animal Graveyard is about an acre of sun bleached bones and tall grass under peaceful trees.
This spot was one of our favorite places to play hide and seek when we were children. We skinny dipped in the river just below the bleached bones. We used sun bleached cattle ribs as toy axes when playing cowboys and Indians.
My childhood memories are so thick right now I can barely see the computer screen...
Whenever a cow, horse, or pig would die, we'd tie a chain around it's lifeless neck, attach the chain to a tractor, and drag that body across pastures and creeks to the "Animal Graveyard". The Animal Graveyard is in a grove of trees next to a small river and our family has used this spot as the "catch all" for dead animals for over 100 years.
The Animal Graveyard is about an acre of sun bleached bones and tall grass under peaceful trees.
This spot was one of our favorite places to play hide and seek when we were children. We skinny dipped in the river just below the bleached bones. We used sun bleached cattle ribs as toy axes when playing cowboys and Indians.
My childhood memories are so thick right now I can barely see the computer screen...
This post was edited on 11/29/16 at 7:58 am
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Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:39 am to mizzoukills
Kinda want to downvote...kinda don't.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:39 am to mizzoukills
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Anyone here grow up on a farm?
yes
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If so, did you have a livestock graveyard? by mizzoukills
my freezer
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:40 am to mizzoukills
Kind of farm did you live on that didn't have a front end loader?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:41 am to mizzoukills
naw, we had a service that came by and picked up the carcasses which I now can only assume they then sold to one of the pet food factories in the area.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:41 am to mizzoukills
Had the same in the northeast corner of our property.
This post was edited on 11/29/16 at 7:42 am
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:42 am to mizzoukills
Maybe if y'all would have fed those animals you would not have an acre of dead ones.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:45 am to ChenierauTigre
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Maybe if y'all would have fed those animals you would not have an acre of dead ones.
100+ years of the occasional animal death adds up, baw.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:45 am to mizzoukills
Just a joke, dude. 
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:47 am to GREENHEAD22
GREENHEAD22
People who didn't grow up on farms find the idea of an animal graveyard spooky and disturbing. I always respond with, "What would you have done with dead livestock?"
City slickers sometimes reply, "I'd give them a proper burial," at which point I heartily laugh out loud.
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Had the same in the northeast corner of our property.
People who didn't grow up on farms find the idea of an animal graveyard spooky and disturbing. I always respond with, "What would you have done with dead livestock?"
City slickers sometimes reply, "I'd give them a proper burial," at which point I heartily laugh out loud.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:48 am to mizzoukills
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"What would you have done with dead livestock?"
Why not eat the cows and pigs? Unless it was some sort of disease that tainted the meat.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:50 am to CtotheVrzrbck
Right a rendering truck. That's how we got rid of them except dead baby hogs those we threw out.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:50 am to LSUBoo
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Why not eat the cows and pigs? Unless it was some sort of disease that tainted the meat.
By the time you discover a deceased cow or pig, it's either been dead too long or it died from disease.
Do you eat road kill?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:51 am to mizzoukills
if you consider digging a big hole with the excavator and throwing the carcass in the hole then yes we did proper burial. no way I'd just throw a dead animal out on the ground to rot, our dogs would have carried that shite everywhere
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:52 am to mizzoukills
Luckily we had a family friend who was a Member of Congress and shared his franking privileges with us. We chopped our dead livestock into little pieces and mass mailed it to addresses across the Northeast.
Screw them Yankees.
Screw them Yankees.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:52 am to mizzoukills
I grew up raising pigs. I can only remember one that died to a disease, and she was fed to the gators. Everything else made it to the butcher.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:53 am to mizzoukills
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Do you eat road kill?
Absolutely. Well done with some hot sauce.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:53 am to mizzoukills
Horses got buried.
Cattle were drug off to the closest ravine
Cattle were drug off to the closest ravine
This post was edited on 11/29/16 at 7:54 am
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:54 am to cgrand
On big enough pieces of property you dont have to worry about that. Yotes and worms have to eat to.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 7:55 am to GREENHEAD22
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Had the same in the northeast corner of our property
This and it wasn't a place to play.
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